Woog
A woog (from "wâc", a Middle High German hydronym) is the local name for a body of still water in parts of southwest Germany. A "woog" may be of natural origin or manmade. Distribution of the name. The name is used for waterbodies in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate (being especially common in the Palatine Forest), the Saarland, in South Hesse (commonly in the Odenwald) and in the state of Baden-Württemberg (Nordbaden); even the names of roads or settlements are derived from such bodies of water. Examples are: