Corpse lake
| Corpse lake | ||
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| Leichensee looking south, towards the forest with the Slavic rampart Retzin. | ||
| Geographical location | District of Vorpommern-Greifswald | |
| Drain | Dig to Randow | |
| Location close to the shore | Löcknitz | |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 26 '15 " N , 14 ° 13' 48" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 7.8 m above sea level NHN | |
| surface | 2.6 ha | |
The Leichensee is a lake in the municipality of Löcknitz in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Its area is about 2.6 hectares . It is located near the Löcknitzer See, which is 44.4 hectares and is much larger . The water has a drain to the Randow , which - based on the name of the lake - is called the grave moat .
On the southern bank there are the remains of a Slavic rampart , the Retzin rampart .
Trivia
According to legend, the corpse lake got its name because the residents of the robbery castle on the lake are said to have sunk the bodies of their robbed victims there. According to this legend, the Randow was previously navigable. The robber barons held passing ships by means of two chains stretched across the river , robbed them and killed the crew. If they encountered a numerically superior ship's crew, more robber barons were called to help by means of a bell attached to the river bank . This bell is said to have fallen into the lake after the leader's death, is still lying on the lake's bottom today and always rings on Midsummer Day at 12 noon (→ see below: Wikisource: The saga of the corpse lake ).
