Black lacquers (hydronym)

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The Schwarze Lacke (also black paint ) is an Alpine-room common name for a standing or slow-flowing water that looks dark. The term “varnish” is likely to be a variant of “Lache” (which is said to come from either lacus or from lœkr or * lek-a- ). Often boggy waters in the mountains are so called, the names include:

Ghost and ghost stories are often told in connection with a body of water called Schwarze Lacke.

  • In the Wachau, for example, they say that there is a small swampy pool of water in the forest above Förthof, in which you can see a spire on bright days. At night you could meet Jagermandl there.
  • According to legend, the discovery of the ore mountain near the town of Eisenerz (Styria) is due to a water man from the “Black Lacke” at the mouth of the Münichtal .

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