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:
Baden-Württemberg
- Woogsee, natural lake near Rastatt in the basin of the Kinzig-Murg-Rinne
Rhineland-Palatinate
- Biedenbacher Woog, reservoir on the Leinbach
- Büttelwoog, campsite near Dahn
- Dämmelswoog, reservoir near Fischbach
- Eiswoog, reservoir on the Eisbach
- Finsterthaler Woog, reservoir on the Leinbach
- Franzosenwoog, former reservoir on the Hochspeyerbach
- Gelterswoog, reservoir of tributaries of the Aschbach
- Hammerwoog, reservoir in Kaiserslautern
- Kammerwoog, former woog on the Nahe in Idar-Oberstein, today a section of the river
- Katzenwoog, reservoir on the Erlenbach near Kaiserslautern
- Kolbenwoog, reservoir on a tributary of the Aschbach
- Mörstadter Woog, reservoir on the northern perimeter of Mörstadt[3]
- Mühlwoog, reservoir on the Leinbach, just before its confluence with the Hochspeyerbach
- Niederhausener Woog (also Niederhausener reservoir), reservoir der Nahe between Norheim and Niederhausen
- Pfälzerwoog (also Pfalzwoog), reservoir on a right tributary of the Saarbach
- Salzwoog, district of Lemberg, named after an old reservoir on the Salzbach
- Scheidelberger Woog, nature reserve between Miesau and Hütschenhausen
- Schweinswoog, reservoir on the Eußerbach
- Seewoog, reservoir on the Leinbach near Waldleiningen
- Sixmeisterwoog reservoir on the Aggenbach near Otterberg
- Spießwoog, reservoir near Fischbach
- Stüdenwoog reservoir on the Eppenbrunner Bach
- Vogelwoog, reservoir and surrounding nature reserve on the edge of Kaiserslautern
- Woogfelsen rocks, a heritage site on the Biedenbacher Woog in Frankenstein (Pfalz)
Pfälzisches Wörterbuch, Woog (in German), vol. Band 6, col. 1456
