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Obersee is the German word for "Upper Lake" and may refer to:
- Obersee (Antarctica), a meltwater lake in the Gruber Mountains, Antarctica
- Obersee (Arosa), a lake in the resort town of Arosa, Grisons, Switzerland
- Obersee (Lake Constance), the larger of the two parts of Lake Constance
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Obersee (Zürichsee), a section of Lake Zürich, Switzerland
- Obersee Nachrichten, a newspaper published in the area of Obersee
- Obersee (Glarus), a mountain lake in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland
- Obersee (Königssee), a mountain lake in south eastern Bavaria
- Obersee, a previous name for the Egerner cove of the Tegernsee (lake), Bavaria
- Obersee, an informal name for the upper part of the Weitsee, Bavaria
Obersee is a lake on Oberseealp in the Canton of Glarus, Switzerland. Its surface area is 0.24 km².
Obersee ("upper lake") or Oberer Arosasee is the lake in the center of Arosa, a resort in the Grisons, Switzerland. The lake has a surface area of at an elevation of 1734 m. Arosa's lower lake ( Untersee) is at 1691 m.
The Obersee ("Upper Lake") is the larger of the two parts of Lake Constance.
It has an area of 473 km² in size and extends over 63 km between Bregenz and Bodman-Ludwigshafen. Its maximum width is 14 km. The Romans called it Lacus Venetus, Lacus Brigantinus and Lacus Constantinus. In the Middle Ages the dominant term was Lacus Bodamicus, or in German Bodensee. Gradually, this name began to include the Untersee (Lacus Acronius), so the term "Upper Lake" was introduced for the larger lake.
The Upper Lake is drained by the Seerhein in Constance, which flows into the Lower Lake. Its main tributary is the Alpine Rhine.
Parts of the Upper Lake are the Lake Überlingen, the Bregenz Bay and the Constance Hopper. Lake Überlingen is sometimes considered to be a separate lake, in which case the name "Obersee" only refers to the section between Bregenz and Constance.
The lake is bordered by the Swiss cantons of Thurgau and St. Gallen, by the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and the German states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. The demarcation of their borders within the southeastern part of the Obersee has never been formally agreed upon (see further explanation at Lake Constance – International borders). Only the smaller northwestern Lake Überlingen is completely German territory.
The Obersee ("upper lake") is the smaller of the two parts of Zürichsee (Lake Zürich) in the cantons of St. Gallen and Schwyz in Switzerland.
The Obersee is a natural lake in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the Austrian border. All of the lake is within the Berchtesgaden National Park. It is located southeast of the much larger Königssee.
The two lakes are separated through a moraine. A massive rockfall in 1172 is sometimes referred to as the cause of the separation of the two lakes but Obersee was most likely never part of the larger Königssee and always separated. There are no villages near the lake, the only dwelling being the small Fischunkelalm which is only occupied during the summer month.