Black lacquers (hydronym)
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:
- a small lake in the Steinernen Meer Pinzgau ( Salzburg ), 2 km south of the Funtensee in the Berchtesgadener Land and 1 km from the German-Austrian border. It lies at an altitude of around 1950 m. The black lacquer has a size of 400 m² and a circumference of 80 m. (Location)
- the last section of the Nymphenburg-Biedersteiner Canal in Munich between the Würm and Isar , which was laid out by Elector Max Emanuel , is called Schwarze Lacke before it flows into the Schwabinger Bach .
- In the municipality of Lana (South Tyrol) there is a lake at 1,800 m above sea level, which is called black paint
- Schwarze Lacke (Vienna) , a former branch of the Danube near the municipality of Jedlesee near Vienna
- The Schwarze Lacken in the Gerzkopf European Protected Area
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 .