The Laacher See is a lake in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ...

It occupies what is supposed to be a crater in the Eifel volcanic formation, and the pumice stone and basalt mound in great quantities around it lend credence to this theory. The lake lies 850 ft. above sea level, is 5 miles in circumference and is surrounded by an amphitheatre of high hills. The water is sky blue in colour, very cold and bitter to the taste. The lake has no natural outlet and consequently is subjected to a considerable rise and fall. On the western side lies the Benedictine monastery of Maria Laach Abbey (Abbatia Lacensis), founded in 1093 by Henry II, count palatine of the Rhine. The Eifel is a hilly region in Germany. ... The longest lasting of the western Catholic monastic orders, the Benedictine Order traces its origins to the adoption of the monastic life by St. ... Abbey of Maria Laach The medival abbey of Maria Laach was built between 1093 and 1177, with a buttock added around 1225. ... // Events Donald III of Scotland comes to the throne of Scotland. ...

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