TEGERNSEE  , a

lake of Germany, in the province of Upper Bavaria, situated in a beautiful mountain country, 2382 ft. above the sea, 34 M . S. from Munich by rail to Gmund, a village with a station on the north shore . The lake is 4 M. long, averages 14 m. broad, and is about . 235 ft. deep . Its waters discharge through the Mangfall into the Inn . The southern part is environed by high and well-wooded hills, while on the northern side, where it debouches on the plain, the banks are flat and less attractive . Prosperous villages and handsome villas stud its shores, and it is one of the most frequented summer resorts in the vicinity of Munich . The village of Tegernsee (pop . 1742 in 1905), on the east bank, has a parish church dating from the 15th century, a ducal castle which was formerly a Benedictine monastery, and a hospital, founded in connexion with the large ophthalmic practice of the late Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria . See Freyberg, Aelteste Geschichte von Tegernsee (Munich, 1822) ; Hack, Tegernsee (Munich, 1888); Breu, Der Tegernsee, limnologische Studie (Munich, 1906) .