Caption

The village of Unterwestrich, originally intended to make way for the Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mine, remains standing after the coal compromise, but is largely abandoned and empty, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Date

Feb 06, 2023

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK24I52_095

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

172.3Mb (8.0Mb) / 21.1in x 31.7in / 6336 x 9504 (300dpi)

Keywords

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