A woog (from wâc, a Middle High German hydronym) is the local name for a body of still water in parts of southwest Germany. A woog may be of natural origin or manmade.
The name is used for waterbodies in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate (being especially common in the Palatine Forest), the Saarland, in South Hesse (commonly in the Odenwald) and in the state of Baden-Württemberg (Nordbaden); even the names of roads or settlements are derived from such bodies of water. Examples are:
Woogsee, natural lake near Rastatt in the basin of the Kinzig-Murg-Rinne
Großer Woog, reservoir on the Darmbach
Rhineland-Palatinate
Biedenbacher Woog, reservoir on the Leinbach
Büttelwoog, campsite near Dahn
Dämmelswoog, reservoir near Fischbach
Eiswoog, reservoir on the Eisbach
Finsterthaler Woog, reservoir on the Leinbach
Franzosenwoog, former reservoir on the Hochspeyerbach
Gelterswoog, reservoir of tributaries of the Aschbach
Hammerwoog, reservoir in Kaiserslautern
Kammerwoog, former woog on the Nahe in Idar-Oberstein, today a section of the river
Katzenwoog, reservoir on the Erlenbach near Kaiserslautern
Kolbenwoog, reservoir on a tributary of the Aschbach
Mörstadter Woog, reservoir on the northern perimeter of Mörstadt
Mühlwoog, reservoir on the Leinbach, just before its confluence with the Hochspeyerbach
Niederhausener Woog (also Niederhausener reservoir), reservoir der Nahe between Norheim and Niederhausen
Pfälzerwoog (also Pfalzwoog), reservoir on a right tributary of the Saarbach
Salzwoog, district of Lemberg, named after an old reservoir on the Salzbach
Scheidelberger Woog, nature reserve between Miesau and Hütschenhausen
Schweinswoog, reservoir on the Eußerbach
Seewoog, reservoir on the Leinbach near Waldleiningen
Sixmeisterwoog reservoir on the Aggenbach near Otterberg
Spießwoog, reservoir near Fischbach
Stüdenwoog reservoir on the Eppenbrunner Bach
Vogelwoog, reservoir and surrounding nature reserve on the edge of Kaiserslautern
Woogfelsen rocks, a heritage site on the Biedenbacher Woog in Frankenstein (Pfalz)
Saarland
Alter Woog, road name in the old town of St. Wendel
Am Altwoog, road name in the Neunkirchen district of Furpach
Merwoog, road name in Kirrberg derived from an old reservoir on the Lambsbach
Möhlwoog, reservoir on the Erbach near Homburg-Jägersburg
Woogbachtal (also Ensheimer Gelösch), valley with ponds near Saarbrücken-Ensheim Airport
Zum Altwoog, road name in Fürth im Ostertal
