DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Baden-Württemberg
Regierungsbezirk: Freiburg
Landkreis: Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald

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Titisee is situated at an elevation of 849 m on the north shore of the lake, Titisee. Titisee is part of the municipality Titisee-Neustadt.

The earliest mention of the place in written documents dates from 1111. Documents of 1635 mention the name as Dettesee and Titinsee. THe modern name, Titisee, is in common use at least since 1750. The community comprises the four villages Altenweg, Spriegelsbach, Schildwende and Jostal. For this reason the Titisee was also known as Vierthäler or Viertäler until 1929. In 1973, Titisee was merged with the municipality of Neustadt im Schwarzwald. The new municipality was named Titisee-Neustadt.

The lake, Titisee is said it got its name from Roman Emperor Titus. It covers an area of 1.3 km² and has an average depth of 20 m. It owes its creation to the Feldberg glacier, the moraine ploughed up by which in the Pleistocene epoch nowadays forms the lake's shores. The lake's outflow, at 840 m above sea level, is the river Gutach (or as it is called farther downstream, the Wutach).
[Text adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titisee]