Mausinsel

The Wörth, but mostly Mouse Island is the only island in Worthsee in Bavaria.

The small, densely forested island is located near the southwest shore at Bachem and belongs to the municipality of Inning am Ammersee. It rises about seven feet above the lake level and is separated on the north end only by a narrow passage just ten meters from the mainland. Elsewhere, they share a passable bridge to the shore. The island is privately owned and is not publicly available.

In the south of the island, built in 1446 Schloss Wörth Schlössl is the Chapel of St. Simpert. The castle was formerly the Earl of Toerring as a summer residence.

To the popular name mouse island it came to a legend because one of the lords of the castle fled the area on the island from a plague of mice. The rodents were published after he burned some of his destitute subjects hardhearted in a barn ence and thereby cried scornfully: " Stop whining their mice " The plague disappeared only when they were its been getting hold on the island and on the death of the innocent had avenged him. After one of the traditions of the lord of the manor from Burgselberg came into stones Bach, according to another, he came from the Castle Seefeld from the time before the Toerring.