Will-o`-the-wisp at the moor

retold and drawn by Eugen Gliege

Between both villages Gohlitz and Wachow there was a long narrow lake until the lake Riewendsee. the lake of Niebede- in former times. In case somebody wanted to get to the other villages he had to go over Moeserdamm and over Moeserdamm bridge, because today`s connection was built with that dried up lake later.

In the near of Moeserdamm bridge at the Lake Riewendsee there was the village Moeseritz formerly. In 1287 it got a waste land and only the name Moeserdamm remembers on that settlement. Both villages Gohlitz and Wachow were ruled by a monastic order of the Praemonstratensian and were under their protection in the 12th century. Nowadays there is told a saga that the monks worked by a lake in the evenings when they saw a lot of light in th lake. The faithful menthought of a miracle and followed the will-o`-the-wisp into that moorish water and died.