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East Germany's old mines transformed into new lake district
by Paul Sullivan

The Guardian    Translate This Article
17 September 2016

On 17 September 2016 The Guardian reported: Despite a euro 2.2 billion regeneration programme, the Lusatian Lake District project, on land once occupied by the GDR's industrial heartland, remains relatively unknown to non-east Germans. So we took a tour ... The development of this region is one of the former GDR's biggest success stories, transforming what was once one of its primary lignite-producing areas into the largest artificial lakeland in Europe. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the fields of science and government, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

The idea of turning mines into recreational lakes actually began in the GDR, when one of the mines near Senftenberg was flooded in 1973, on the recommendation of landscape planner Otto Rindt. Lake Senftenberg -- nicknamed 'Dresden's Bathtub' -- subsequently became the blueprint for the current development. Following reunification, the remaining mines were either taken over and cleaned up by Swedish company Vattenfall, or handed over to the federally owned LMBV (founded in 1994) for transformation into recreational areas. ...

The lakeland also carries huge symbolic value in terms of the country's Energiewende, part of Angela Merkel's renewable energy act, under which all nuclear power stations are to be closed by 2022 in an ambitious push towards clean energy.

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