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Laacher See

Laacher See, also known as Lake Laach or Laach Lake, is a volcanic crater lake with a diameter of 2 km in , , about 24 km northwest of , 37 km south of , and 8 km west of .
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: volcanic crater lake in Germany
  • Also known as: “Laach Lake” and “Lake Laach”
Photo: Andreas Gräwe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Lotto282, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Laach volcano and Maria Laach Abbey.

Volcano
Photo: Bungert55, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Monastery
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a Benedictine abbey situated in , on the southwestern shore of the Laacher See, in the region of the in .

Archaeological site
, also called the Pfalzgrafen Castle, is a levelled Salian spur castle by the Laacher See opposite the Abbey of Maria Laach. The castle site lies on the territory of in the county of in the German state of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wassenach and Glees.

Village
Photo: GFreihalter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the , in , .

Village
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is a municipality in the , in , . It lies near the .

Village
Photo: Thomas Hummel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality in the in , western .

Laacher See

Latitude
50.41257° or 50° 24′ 45″ north
Longitude
7.27054° or 7° 16′ 14″ east
Elevation
274 metres (899 feet)
Open location code
9F29C77C+26
Open­Street­Map ID
way 56428302
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Geo­Names ID
2882146
Wiki­data ID
Q549267
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Laacher See” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Laachermeer”
  • Albanian: “Laacher See”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة لاتشر”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة لاش”
  • Aragonese: “Laacher See”
  • Armenian: “Լաախեր Զե”
  • Armenian: “Լախեր-Զե”
  • Asturian: “Laacher See”
  • Azerbaijani: “Laher Ze”
  • Azerbaijani: “Laxer-Ze”
  • Balinese: “Danu Laacher”
  • Bashkir: “Лахер-Зее (күл)”
  • Bashkir: “Лахер-Зее”
  • Basque: “Laacher See”
  • Belarusian: “Лахер-Зэ”
  • Bengali: “লাখার হ্রদ”
  • Bosnian: “Laach”
  • Bosnian: “Laacher See”
  • Breton: “Lenn Laach”
  • Bulgarian: “Лахер Зе”
  • Catalan: “llac Laach”
  • Catalan: “Llac Laach”
  • Cebuano: “Lanaw sa Laach”
  • Central Bikol: “Laacher See”
  • Chinese: “Laacher Ô͘”
  • Chinese: “拉赫湖”
  • Chuvash: “Лахер-Зе”
  • Croatian: “Laacher See”
  • Czech: “Laacher See”
  • Czech: “Laacherské jezero”
  • Danish: “Laacher See”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gola Laacheri”
  • Dotyali: “लाचर सी”
  • Dutch: “Laacher See”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة لاش”
  • Esperanto: “Laacher See”
  • Estonian: “Laachi järv”
  • Finnish: “Laacher See”
  • French: “lac de Laach”
  • French: “Lac de Laach”
  • Friulian: “Laacher See”
  • Galician: “Laacher See”
  • Georgian: “ლაახერ-ზეე”
  • German: “Laacher See”
  • Greek: “Λάχερ Ση”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Λάαχερ”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Λάχ”
  • Guarani: “Ypa Laacher”
  • Hebrew: “אגם לאךְ”
  • Hebrew: “לאכר זה”
  • Hiligaynon: “Linaw sg Laach”
  • Hindi: “लाचेर झील”
  • Hungarian: “Laacher See”
  • Icelandic: “Laach-vatn”
  • Ido: “Lago di Laach”
  • Iloko: “Danaw Laach”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Laacher”
  • Irish: “Laacher See”
  • Italian: “Laacher See”
  • Japanese: “ラーハー湖”
  • Japanese: “ラーハ湖”
  • Javanese: “Tlaga Laacher”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾಚರ್ ಸೀ”
  • Kazakh: “Лахер-Зе”
  • Kinaray-A: “Linaw ka Laach”
  • Korean: “라흐호”
  • Ladin: “Laacher See”
  • Latin: “Laacher See”
  • Latvian: “Lāha ezers”
  • Latvian: “Lāhas ezers”
  • Latvian: “Lāhera ezers”
  • Latvian: “Lāheras ezers”
  • Ligurian: “Laacher See”
  • Limburgan: “Laacher See”
  • Lithuanian: “Lacherio ežeras”
  • Lombard: “Laacher See”
  • Luxembourgish: “Laacher Séi”
  • Macedonian: “Лашко Езеро”
  • Malay: “Tasik Laacher”
  • Maltese: “Laacher See”
  • Maltese: “Lag ta‘ Laach”
  • Maltese: “Lag ta’ Laach”
  • Marathi: “लाचर सी”
  • Mazanderani: “لاخه دریوک”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Laacher Ô͘”
  • Minangkabau: “Danau Laacher”
  • Neapolitan: “Laacher See”
  • Northern Frisian: “Laacher Sia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Laacher See”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laacher See”
  • Norwegian: “Laacher See”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lac de Laach”
  • Pampanga: “Dáno ning Laach”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਚ ਝੀਲ”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਚੇਰ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ لاخ”
  • Persian: “دریای لاخر”
  • Picard: “Lac éd Laach”
  • Piemontese: “Laacher See”
  • Polish: “Laacher See”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Laacher”
  • Quechua: “Laacher Qucha”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Laach”
  • Russian: “Лаахское озеро”
  • Russian: “Лахер-Зе”
  • Sardinian: “Lagu Laacher”
  • Scots: “Laacher See”
  • Serbian: “Лахер Зе”
  • Serbian: “Лахско језеро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Laacher See”
  • Sicilian: “Laacher See”
  • Slovak: “Laacher See”
  • Spanish: “Laacher See”
  • Spanish: “Lago de Laach”
  • Sundanese: “Situ Laacher”
  • Swedish: “Laacher See”
  • Tagalog: “Laacher See”
  • Tagalog: “Lawà ng Laach”
  • Telugu: “లాచర్ సీ”
  • Thai: “ลาเคอร์เซ”
  • Turkish: “Laach Gölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Лаах (озеро)”
  • Ukrainian: “Лаах”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ لاخر”
  • Vietnamese: “Laacher See”
  • Walloon: “Basse di Laach”
  • Welsh: “Laacher See”
  • Western Frisian: “Laacher See”
  • Western Panjabi: “بحیرہ لاخر”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉赫湖”
  • Yiddish: “לאכער אזערע”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉赫湖”
  • “Laacher See”

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