The Mindelsee is a
Proglacial lake
In geology, a proglacial lake is a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic depression of the crust around t ...
in
Radolfzell,
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
. Its current area is approximately with an average depth of . it extends approximately in a northwest-southeast direction with a width of around .
The lake is located on
Bodanrück peninsula, which separates
Upper Lake Constance
The ''Obersee'' ('Upper Lake'), also known as Upper Lake Constance, is the much larger of the two parts of Lake Constance, the other part being the ''Untersee (Lake Constance), Untersee'' (). The two parts are separated by the Bodanrück peninsul ...
from
Lower Lake Constance.
External links
Lake description{{in lang, de
Lakes of Baden-Württemberg