Caption

The village of Keyenberg at the Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mining area, the original village was to be dredged, but now remains due to the lignite phase-out in 2030, the former residents now live around 6 kilometres away in the district of Erkelenz, in Keyenberg-Neu, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Date

Mar 26, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK25E24_499

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NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

139,5Mb (10,7Mb) / 26,9in x 20,2in / 8064 x 6048 (300dpi)

Keywords

View from above high-angle view top down view from above overhead top view top views Top angle elevated view bird's eye view birds eyes view Bird eye view bird view bird perspective top down bird's eye view high-angle shot deserted no one No People nobody uninhabited empty kilometer kilometers kilometre kilometres construction site construction sites building site building sites construction area resident residents house houses home homes apartment apartments flat housing dwelling dwellings church tower church towers steeple church churches Church building Kirche building buildings structure construction constructions sacral building sacred building religious building religious buildings village villages city cities town urban urban municipal urban environment tower towers apartment flat apartments flats politics politics alternative energy alternative energies renewable energy green energy power generation power generations energy production power supplier electricity provider power suppliers energy supplier energy company RWE RWE Power AG power supply electricity supply power supplies energy supply brown coal lignite brown coals coal coals open cast mining strip mining opencast mine opencast mines open cast mining mining distance distances environment protection environment protection environmental protection environmental conservation environmental pollution environmental pollution pollution pollution of the environment environmental contamination ecocide environmental destruction ecocides environment environment North Rhine-Westphalia NRW Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia North-Rhine Westphalia German mining minings Europe Europe's real estate real estates realty property properties village town place spot construction work construction works building construction site construction sites estate estates property properties plot plots neighborhood district neighbourhood natural original originally Aerial Aerials aerial view aerial shot aerial photography Aerial landscape aerial photograph aerial photo aerial photos flight photo flight photos flight shot flight shots from the sky from the air airshot residential building residential buildings residential house residential home residence residential houses residential homes residences Apartment building single family home single family homes one family house detached houses detached house one family houses single-family house single-family houses political ecofriendly eco-friendly environmentally friendly Environmental friendly procession processions pageant pageants parade infrastructure infrastructures old oldest real estate market real estate markets energy source energy sources european environmental pollution ecological damage environmental pollutions person persons Human being People human humans individual individuals power industry energy industry power industries production productions extraction fossil energy source fossil energy sources fossil fuel fossil fuels former formerly Germany German Federal Republic Republic of Germany FRG BRD change of structure renewable sustainable regenerative environmental politics environmental politics ecological awareness environmental awareness energy politic energy politics energy transition Energy turnaround sustainability environmental damage environmental damages ecological damage urban construction urban construction urban planning looking down view down multi-family house multi-family houses Tenement House apartment building apartment buildings Tenement Houses Apartment house Apartment houses Flat house Flat houses apartment house apartment houses apartment block apartment blocks environmental issue environmental issues Jüchen Garzweiler Garzweiler surface mine Garzweiler opencast lignite mine far away far off in the distance away polluting harmful to the environment Environmentally harmful Belfry Clock tower Bell tower Clock towers bell towers belfries Bell-tower Bell-towers Erkelenz Central Europe Middle Europe coal phase-out Keyenberg Strip mining lignite Strip mining lignite lignite open-pit mining Opencast lignite mining open-cast lignite mine opencast lignite mine Opencast lignite mining area Village community Lignite phase-out