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Brake Lake

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    1. Brake Lake loop from Landscheide

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    August 14, 2018

    In winter, when the ice stops then you can skate wonderfully.

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      August 30, 2021

      Lake Brake is one of the lakes in Schleswig-Holstein and is located near Germany's deepest point of land near Kudensee on the Kiel Canal. The Brake is a flat lake in the marshland in the Wilstermarsch.

      This lake was created in 1721 during the New Years Flood, a severe storm surge. It had unbridled access over a wide area, but only four years earlier the heavy Christmas flood of 1717 had destroyed the dikes in many places and claimed thousands of deaths. As a result, the impoverished and, since starving, people were not able to do more than just makeshift repairs by hand.

      In addition, this flood was about 30 centimeters higher than the previous Christmas flood. Even if the storm wasn't as strong as that of 1717, it lasted a lot longer. It will have gone into land for some time before the water from the surroundings, which is below sea level, ran off again. We are talking about weeks and months here.

      This further tragedy was the origin of the Brake, the small shallow lake that remained when the water withdrew. Today the Brake belongs to a unique and diverse biotope with a footpath, information board and a small viewing platform. From here you can look over the tall bank plants to the Kiel Canal.

      Source: weites.land/brake-seen-in-schleswig-holstein

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        Location: Landscheide, Kreis Steinburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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