[[File:Woogsee4.jpg|thumb|Baden: the Woogsee near Rastatt]] [[File:Woog Familienbad.JPG|thumb|Hesse: the Großer Woog in Darmstadt]] [[File:Eiswoog.jpg|thumb|Rhineland-Palatinate: the Eiswoog in the Palatine Forest]] thumb|Saarland: the Möhlwoog near Jägersburg A '''''woog''''' (from ''wâc'', a Middle High German hydronym)<ref name="pwb">{{citation|title=Woog|url=http://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/PfWB?lemma=woog|volume=Band 6|at=col. 1456|language=de|surname1=Pfälzisches Wörterbuch}}</ref><ref name="dwb">{{citation|title=Wag|url=http://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB?bookref=27,331,21|volume=Band 27|at=col. 331|language=de|surname1=Deutsches Wörterbuch}}</ref> 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<ref name="wormser zeitung">{{cite web |work=Wormser Zeitung |url=http://www.wormser-zeitung.de/region/vg-monsheim/moerstadt/4835558.htm |title=Idylle am Woog near Musik and Wein |date=2008-07-07 |access-date=2009-09-08 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> * 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
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