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Beautiful spot, with a view of Lake Laach. The mofettes are bubbling merrily away. And if my nose isn't deceiving me, you can even smell something. Maybe it was just my dog farting 😉. The gases are said to be odorless and not entirely harmless.

The oval lake, with an area of approximately 3.3 km² and a water depth of more than 50 m, is the largest lake in Rhineland-Palatinate. Lake Laach and the surrounding lands are owned by the Maria Laach Abbey.

Mofettes at Lake Laach demonstrate: The Laacher See volcano, Europe's youngest, didn't go extinct 13,000 years ago; it's just dormant. That's what volcanologists say. And indeed, on the eastern shore of the lake, it's bubbling like a glass of mineral water. Mass amounts of CO2 bubbles rise here, and there's a faint smell of sulfur. Source: https://www.meineeifel.de/mofetten-am-laacher-see/

On January 20, 1820, Daniel Heinrich Delius, the President of the Trier government, acquired the monastery estate of Laach Abbey. Between 1840 and 1845, his descendants, the Delius and von Ammon families, as owners of the monastery estate and the lake, had a new Delius tunnel built approximately 5 meters lower and approximately 1,070 meters long, with the older Fulbert tunnel partially filled with the new excavated material. This reduced the lake's surface area by approximately 48 hectares, and the agriculturally usable area was significantly increased. Source: Display board

While walking around Lake Laach and then visiting the abbey, you can put together an entire year's calendar from countless great photos.

The lake "Maria Laach" is a volcanic crater. It is not an extinct volcano, it is still active. You can still see it clearly in some areas of the shore, where gas bubbles rise from the so-called "mofettes".

The venerable Benedictine abbey of MARIA LAACH, very picturesquely situated on the banks of Lake Laach, is without a doubt one of the great highlights of this region. In addition to the extremely impressive Romanesque monastery church, where the monks meet several times a day for communal prayer (visitors are welcome to join in the prayers), there are restaurants, a book and art shop, a garden center and other businesses. Many visitors combine a tour of the abbey with a walk around the lake.

The Laacher See in the eastern volcanic Eifel, near the Maria Laach Abbey in the municipality of Glees, is the largest lake in Rhineland-Palatinate. It was formed in the caldera of the Laach volcano after its last eruption, which was initially dated to 10,930 BC.