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June 25, 2018

Germany turning wasteland into resorts

  • The coal mining region of Lusatia once resembled the moon, but man-made craters have been turned into lakes, canals and cycle tracks for tourists.
    • By FRANK JORDANS
    Associated Press

    GROSSRAESCHEN, Germany — As the sun beats down on a small vineyard by the rippling waters of Grossraeschen Lake, there's little sign of the vast wound that lies beneath.

    Meuro, the brown-black mine that once dominated the landscape, providing jobs to thousands of workers who toiled in clouds of lignite coal dust, has vanished. Only a floating excavator plucking sunken trees out of the water hints at the effort that's gone into reshaping this corner of eastern Germany over the past decades.


     
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