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Seeweiher (Mengerskirchen)
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Seeweiher (Mengerskirchen) is located in GermanySeeweiher (Mengerskirchen)Seeweiher (Mengerskirchen)
Location Hesse
Coordinates 50°32′53″N 8°08′58″E / 50.548017°N 8.149538°E / 50.548017; 8.149538
Max. length 0.939 kilometres (0.583 mi)
Surface area 0.13 kilometres (0.081 mi)

The Seeweiher is a reservoir north of the village of Waldernbach in the municipality of Mengerskirchen (county of Limburg-Weilburg) in the Westerwald in the German state of Hesse. It impounds the Vöhlerbach, a tributary of the Kallenbach which, in turn, flows into the River Lahn. It has a surface area of 13 hectares.

The Seeweiher was impounded in 1452 and is thus one of the oldest reservoirs in Hesse.

There was a campsite on the shores of the bathing lake and, since 1978, there has been a weekend village with 66 houses. Once a year the Westerwald Water Working Group holds a water work assessment for Newfoundland and Landseer dogs on land owned by the DLRG by the Seeweiher.[1]

  1. ^ wasserarbeitsgruppe-westerwald.de: Veranstaltungskalender 2010, 1 December 2009