Légende

The resettlement site of the 5 villages from the Garzweiler II opencast lignite mining area, Keyenberg, Kuckum, Oberwestrich, Unterwestrich and Berverath, which were originally intended to be dug up, but will now remain due to the lignite phase-out in 2030, with around 60% of the former inhabitants of the villages living here on 56 hectares in the north of Erkelenz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Date

26 mars 2025

Crédit

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Notre référence

BRK25E37_140

Model release

NA

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

172,3Mo (6,3Mo) / 80,5cm x 53,6cm / 9504 x 6336 (300dpi)

Mots clés

deserted no one No People nobody uninhabited empty new newly north construction site construction sites building site building sites construction area new building new buildings new construction new constructions resident residents house houses home homes apartment apartments flat housing dwelling dwellings living space living space living quarters building buildings structure construction constructions village villages city cities town urban urban municipal urban environment apartment flat apartments flats politics politics 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 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 residential building residential buildings residential house residential home residence residential houses residential homes residences Apartment building live living lives single family home single family homes one family house detached houses detached house one family houses single-family house single-family houses political procession processions pageant pageants parade infrastructure infrastructures real estate market real estate markets energy source energy sources five 5 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 environmental politics environmental politics energy politic energy politics environmental damage environmental damages ecological damage urban construction urban construction urban planning developing area developing areas development area new development area New development 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 polluting harmful to the environment Environmentally harmful Borschemich 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 remain remainx remaining Village community Lignite phase-out