The lake was artificially created between 1906 and 1908 by widening the Tauben Elbe, a branch of the Elbe. The funds for this project (50,000 marks) were provided by the …
The Salbker See II was due to in 1983 then set gravel extraction and is slightly younger than the resulting the same reason Salbker See I. Previously, belonging to Fermersleben …