Lac de Gérardmer is a

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at the city of

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. It is located in the

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at an elevation of 660 m.''Der Grüne Reiseführer: Elsass Lothringen''. Michelin, 2008, p
117
(German) Jean-Louis Antoine, Michel Leclercq: ''La vallée de Gérardmer''. FeniXX, 1986, pp
12-13
(French) With a surface area of 1.16 km² it is the largest natural lake in the Vosges mountain range.''Lacs et cascades''
at gerardmer.net (French, retrieved 2019-08-12)

References

External links

''Le lac de Gérardmer''
- video of the lake side

at elsass-netz.de (German) Gerardmer Gerardmer LGerardmer {{Vosges-geo-stub