Archive of Disappeared places

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"God created Lusatia, but the devil put the coal underneath," a Sorbian saying emphasizes the ambiguous relationship between people in Lusatia and lignite.
For more than 100 years, lignite mining has dominated the economic development of the otherwise structurally poor Lausitz and brought people to work. At the same time, the area-intensive open-cast mines left lunar landscapes. Villages and districts that stood in their way were devastated, i.e. dredged.