Princes' Island

The Prince Island is a peninsula in the Great Plön Lake southwest of the town of Plön, in Schleswig- Holstein.

The Prince Island has become artificially lowering the water level to the peninsula in the 19th century is about 2 km long and in places only about 30 m wide. At the southern end is the " Lower Saxon farmhouse" from the 17th century, which is now operated as a restaurant with goose and moorland sheep breeding. The island is mostly forested and Prince marshy shore in some areas. It is closed to motorized traffic.

On the former farm sons of the last German Kaiser Wilhelm II learned basic agricultural skills. There was the haunt of the last German Empress Auguste Victoria on the southern tip of Prince Island.

Near the " Lower Saxon farmhouse " put the ships of the "Big - Plön Lake Tour " at. At the farmhouse is the inscription: nihil nihil melius homini libero dignius agricultura 1901, "Nothing is better, nothing to free people worthy than agriculture ."

The peninsula also has a swimming pool, which is known under the name Prinzenbad because there learned the sons of Hohenzollern swimming. It is characterized by a fine sandy beach on the west side where the lake bottom drops only slowly, so that at 30 m distance until a water depth of 1.20 m is reached from the shore. While here also a campground and restaurant was operated in the smallest frame 1947-1963, bathers are now mostly among themselves. In modern buildings, which have replaced the former, among other things the guard station DLRG Plön housed.