Caption

Closed restaurant in the village of Keyenberg in the Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mining area, the original village was to be excavated, 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

Date

Mar 25, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/ImageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK26I75_419

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

168.7Mb (56.2Mb) / 31.7in x 20.7in / 9504 x 6203 (300dpi)

Keywords

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