Woog

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.

Distribution of the name
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:

Baden-Württemberg

 * Woogsee, natural lake near Rastatt in the basin of the Kinzig-Murg-Rinne

Hesse

 * 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