A lake in the Myślibórz Lakeland within the boundaries of Moryń, with an inland bathing area and a bed lying below sea level.
Morzycko is a lake in the Myślibórz Lakeland, within the boundaries of the town of Moryń in Gryfino County. It lies in the buffer zone of the Cedynia Landscape Park, and on its western shore stands the town itself.
Morzycko has an irregular, indented basin, and in its central part the bed drops steeply and forms depressions of 30-40 metres. According to Wikipedia it is the ninth deepest lake in Poland, and the phenomenon of cryptodepression occurs here, that is, a bed lying below sea level.
The shores mostly rise 5-12 metres above the water surface, and the shore zone is overgrown mainly with forests and woodlands. The lake is fed by several small watercourses, of which the most important is the Słubia, flowing out of Lake Białęga. The outflow is in Moryń, and at the inlet and outlet of the river there are wetlands.
An inland bathing area has been designated on Morzycko, so the lake serves residents and visitors for relaxing by the water. The townspeople of Moryń were selling vendace from it as early as the 18th century.
On the peninsula jutting into the lake a defensive castle was being built from 1360, described under the castle in Moryń. The town also has the Moryń Geopark Centre, established in 2009 as the Polish part of the cross-border Geopark “Land of Glaciers on the Oder”. Geological exhibitions are also created in the open air: they include the Pleistocene Walk of Fame with figures of Ice Age mammals and a lapidarium with erratic boulders.
In the market square stands the Great Crayfish Fountain from 2008, referring to a local legend about an animal living in the lake.
A walk along the lake combines well with seeing the town. Nearby stands the Church of the Holy Spirit, and less than a kilometre from the lake lies the Jewish cemetery in Moryń.
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