Lake Vesan: the lake system Vesan in Sölvesborg

Sölvesborg

Sölvesborg is a locality and the seat of Sölvesborg Municipality in Blekinge County, Sweden with 7,883 inhabitants in 2005.Sölvesborg is, despite its small population, for historical reasons normally still referred to as a city...

 was from the beginning not a lake, but a strait up until the early 1920s. In the area between Ryssberget

Ryssberget

Ryssberget is a hill in the municipality of Sölvesborg, in the southeastern Swedish province of Blekinge. Ryssberget is made up of some of the oldest stone in Blekinge, so-called metavulcanites created about 1700 million years ago....

 and Listerlandet, water from Hanöbukten

Hanöbukten

Hanöbukten, the Bight of Hanö is a sandy bay, stretching from Listerlandet in the north to Stenshuvud in the south, on the east coast of Skåne, South Sweden....

 flowed in and in effect cut of Listerlandet from the rest of the mainland. The sound was open to sail through up until the 18th century, but increased growth of reeds made the opening too narrow.

Nowadays it is farmland in the former lake, and the church of Gammalstorp

Gammalstorp

Gammalstorp is a minor community in Sölvesborg municipality, Blekinge. Gammalstorp was between 1863 and 1970 a municipality. In contrast to other municipalities of the time , Gammalstorp did not have a particular administrative centre...

lies on the small hill that former was an island.