Sortedam (Black Pond) is not a natural body of water, but a place where peat was extracted until the late 1930s. The peat pits soon filled with water of particularly high quality. This allowed more unusual plants, such as bladderwort, to thrive here in the summer.

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December 8, 2019

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A beautiful and quiet forest lake quite close to the station

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