2023Natural Lakes of Slovenia - Miniature Sheet

Lying at a height of 1,200 metres above sea level, not far from the Pohorje peaks of Osankarica and Veliki Vrh, the Black Lake formed in around 6000 BC. Research suggests that the inhabitants of the Pohorje at that time dug down into the boggy terrain, resulting in the formation of the lake. With the large-scale exploitation of the area’s forests in the nineteenth century, the lake was made bigger as part of the process of transporting logs down into the valley.