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The Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier, often called the Rhenish mining area, is a lignite mining area or district in the Cologne Bay, on the northwestern edge of the Rhenish Slate Mountains. The mining of lignite using the open pit method has had a significant impact on the landscape here and led to the formation of several important industrial sites.
This today consists of lignite seams up to 100 m thick. At 299 m below sea level, the deepest point of the Hambach open-pit mine forms the deepest artificial depression in North Rhine-Westphalia. [5] Since 1995, the giant bucket-wheel excavator Bagger 293 is used to remove the overburden. It holds several Guinness records for terrestrial vehicles.
The Rhineland lignite-mining region, where FZJ is located, is undergoing an important structural change due to the coal phase-out. The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia aims to transform the region into a European model region for energy supply and resource security. [49]
Between 21 and 23 June 2019, protests centered on the Garzweiler open pit mine of the Rhenish lignite mining area . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Protests also took place in the Lusatian lignite mining area [ de ] between 29 November and 1 December 2019.
Ende Gelände 2018 were a series of events of a mass movement for climate justice in the Rhenish lignite mining area in Germany. The non-violent direct action civil disobedience events were targeted against coal-based power generation through RWE Power AG and demanded the "immediate fossil fuel phase-out " based on climate justice and climate ...
Mining was originally limited to the 66 km 2 (25 sq mi) Garzweiler I area located east of the A 44 motorway. Mining in the 48 km 2 (19 sq mi) Garzweiler II area started in 2006 and is estimated to take until around 2045 to fully exploit both sectors. The lignite is used for power generation at nearby power plants such as Neurath [3] and ...
In the 19th and 20th centuries Bergheim grew rapidly through the settlement of industry based on the local lignite coal. In World War II, the Wesseling synthetic oil plant was bombed during the Oil Campaign of World War II. Then in April 1944, a large underground plant for synthetic oil manufactured from lignite was set up outside Bergheim. [3]
The Lusatian Lake District and its surrounding area Section of the chain of lakes. The Lusatian Lake District [1] [2] [3] (German: Lausitzer Seenland, Lower Sorbian: Łužyska jazorina, Upper Sorbian: Łužiska jězorina) is a chain of artificial lakes under construction in Germany across the north-eastern part of Saxony and the southern part of Brandenburg.