Surface-structured glass element and method for production thereof

The purpose of the present invention is to keep as low as possible a reduction in strength due to a mark embedded in glass by a material removal method. For this purpose, a glass element (1) having a surface structure (9) is provided, which comprises at least one structured region (90) of the glass surface (2), which at least one structured region has a higher roughness by glass removal than an adjoining unstructured region (91) of the glass surface (2), the structured region (90) has a mechanical stress profile that can be measured in particular by means of stress birefringence, the structured region (90) having a compressive stress on the glass surface (2), the compressive stress having a greater value than the stress in the adjoining unstructured region (91); and wherein the structured region (90) further has at least one of the following properties:-the value of a compressive stress decreases as the depth increases and transforms into a tensile stress, the maximum value of the tensile stress being less th