150 years ago the lake was surrounded by moor land as the original oak forest had been depleted due to human intervention.

This road is a suitable starting point for walks including mushroom picking in the woods in late summer and autumn.

Around year 2000 a seemingly failed state-initiated biomanipulation project was carried out, in an attempt to make the lake water clearer.

In 2014 + 10 years after the biomanipulation effort, the lake still becomes green with algae in summer, indicating the attempt was in vain.

A biologist has suggested that a missing factor might have been to raise the level of the lake in spring by some decimeters, thus flooding low-lying land, in order to increase the amount of suitable breeding grounds for pike, that eat bream and roach.