The Lake Arend is a natural
lake
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...
in the
Altmark region, northern
Saxony-Anhalt,
Germany
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. It is 23.3 m above sea level, and its area is 5.14 km
2, its depth nearly 50 m. It is the largest and deepest natural lake in Saxony-Anhalt.
The lake lies on top of a
salt dome and developed by repeated caving-in events that continued into historical time; at the end of the 19th century it was believed to have been created by an earthquake in 815 AD.
[Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon. 14th ed., Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna 1894; Vol. 1, p. 845] Hydrologically, the lake is more or less isolated with only a small artificial outflow connecting with the
Elbe river via the river
Jeetzel. The water body (0.147 bill. m
3) only changes every 100 years. The town
Arendsee and the municipality
Schrampe are situated on its shores.
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Lakes of Saxony-Anhalt
LArend
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