Luchsee is a

lake A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...

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. It lies at an elevation of 52.7 m and has a surface area is 7.2 ha. It is located in the municipality of

Krausnick-Groß Wasserburg Krausnick-Groß Wasserburg (Lower sorbian: ''Kšušwica-Wódowy Grod'') is a municipality in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg in Germany. Tropical Islands Resort, the biggest free-standing hall in the world, is located in Krausnick. ...

, close to the

Krausnick hills The Krausnick hillsKohl, Horst; Marcinek, Joachim and Nitz, Bernhard (1986). ''Geography of the German Democratic Republic'', VEB Hermann Haack, Gotha, p. 49. . (german: Krausnicker Berge) are a small range of hills in Eastern Germany in the federa ...

. As part of the European Union's Habitats Directive, the lake protects three

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types. In 2004, Luchsee was confirmed as a

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Lakes of Brandenburg Dahme-Spreewald Bogs of Brandenburg {{Brandenburg-geo-stub