Birkensee is very popular place to swim. More experienced swimmers swim across the lake, while the beginners are swimming near the coast, mostly in the south-east part, where the lake bottom is descending gently. There's the water lifeguard point on the north side of the lake, but the lifeguards have no regular hours of presence. Sometimes they are leaving soon after noon, sometimes they are arriving about the noon - there's no information about their working hours, so it's quite unpredictable to me.
The whole coast is used as the nudist plaza. It is allowed not only to sunbath nude (nude sunbathing is generally allowed in Germany on the plazas), but also nude walking around the lake and nude swimming. About a half of visitors is sunbathing and swimming without clothes.
Motorized can go there by car, there's a parking a few minutes walk from the lake. There's no public transport point nearby, the easiest to go there is by using bus from Fischbach Bahnhof to Brunn, and about 40 minutes walk. The bus goes every 40 minutes on Saturdays and every 80 minutes on Sundays (Nuremberg city ticket). As alternative, you can go from Röttenbach to Renzenhof, which is a bit near, but the bus goes only a few times a day. Of course, you can go there by bike.
A footbath to Birkensee starts here, in the little village Brunn, which is administratively a part of Nuremberg
You go in that direction, on the background you see the Moritzberg
From the south-west side of Birkensee you have a beautiful view on Moritzberg
The east coast of the Birkensee is the sand scarp
North-east coast, with water lifeguard shelter
The footpath from Brunn to Birkensee, 3.68 kilometers long, 69 m elevation, it took me 35 minutes to get there.
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