The Behler See is a lake in the

Holstein Switzerland Holstein Switzerland (german: Holsteinische Schweiz) is a hilly area with a patchwork of lakes and forest in Schleswig Holstein, Germany, reminiscent of Swiss landscape. Its highest point is the Bungsberg (168 metres above sea level).Carl I ...

region of

North Germany Northern Germany (german: link=no, Norddeutschland) is a linguistic, geographic, socio-cultural and historic region in the northern part of Germany which includes the coastal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony an ...

. It lies between Timmdorf (municipality of

Malente Malente is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is about 5 km northwest of Eutin and 35 km north of Lübeck Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (germ ...

) to the east and the town of

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to the west. To the east it transitions into the Langensee, to the west into the Höftsee. All these lakes are crossed from east to west by the

River Schwentine The Schwentine is a river in the North German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It is approximately long and rises on the hill of Bungsberg, the highest point in the state, near the village of Kasseedorf in Ostholstein. It then runs from its sourc ...

. The Behler See is named after the village of Behl in the municipality of Grebin, which lies to the north. It has an area of , is up to 43 metres deep and its surface elevation is about .

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