Can anyone identify this location?

Can anyone identify the location where these photographs were taken? In reality the lake doesn't slope as it does in the second photograph, but it may be a clue.

 

Gosh! That's a big ask! Any clues - the chaps uniform insignia? date? Country?

 

The soldiers are members of the Royal Tank Regiment, the date is sometime after May 1945 and they are in Germany.

 

Wouldn't a more appropriate section be "The War at Sea" or "RAC & RTR" rather than "The War in The Air"?

 

So, a lake or river in wooded country with a few low hills, presumably in northern Germany. There must be a host of candidates.

 

The boat looks very like the sort of municipal variety rented out on boating lakes throughout Northern Europe. A large public park perhaps?

 

Perhaps, but there is a connection to a well known body of water made famous by a particular squadron of the Royal Air Force.

Here is another photograph of some of the lake water leaving the lake under pressure.

 

Very possibly, but I doubt that a public park is the first thing that anyone familiar with the location associates with it.

 

Ah I had thought you were genuinely trying to find something out rather than setting a puzzle.

 

I confess, you have me banged to rights as they used to say on the Sweeney. I have stumbled across a collection of photographs, and knowing that the forum has some members who really have in depth knowledge of their specialist subjects, I thought that I would test their powers of deduction. After the first few photographs, it gets spectacularly easy.

This one has me foxed and I know the location. I cannot decide whether it shows calcium deposits or running water.

 

Even if it only slopes like the one in the first photograph, that would be a clue! I have a strong feeling there won't be that many sloping lakes in Germany...

 

This one definitely sloped during its date with destiny, but only for the few hours that it took for the water to drain away. I believe that two other German lakes briefly experienced the same phenomenon.

 

Now that's a clue!

 

Here is another.

 

The boom which possibly kept part time sailors from falling down the slope.

 

In south Germany or the county Salzburg/Austria many lakes look alike.
The pics remind me of a privately owned lake south of Rosenheim/Germany, but in Austria. Just north of Kufstein.

Walchsse (not Walchensee)
Even today you can hire boats and do waterski.
Does that make any sense?
Stefan.

 

Stefan,

that makes a lot of sense but this is a man made lake in North Rhine - Westphalia, 45 Km east of Dortmund.

Simon

 

Simon,
of course Rosenheim was Ex American zone and Dortmund like my former home Hannover was British.
Stefan.

 

It is going to get easier now as I post more identifiable photographs.

 

Looking at the second photograph.The causeway in the backdrop of the frame looks like the top of the Sorpe dam..ie a concrete core with an earth backfill. However the Sorpe was not breached during the raid of 16/17 May 1943 but there is a spill arrangement from the dam itself for capacity regulation and the water discharge is possibly the result of this regulation mode.

In 1992,my wife and me walked the causeway which is the top of the dam.No 617 Squadron instead of the usual attacking approach perpendicular to the dam face,dropped their Upkeep bombs parallel to the dam face.The earth backfill prevented the exploded weapon shock wave from being transmitted through it to the concrete core to fracture it.

The Sorpe dam causeway shown at the top of the dam.

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