More than 150 years ago, people started to extract brown coal in the lower Lausitz region (lower Lusatia)
What meant wages for the workers, bread for their families and provided much-needed energy, also left a mark on the people and especially on the landscape, because mining also destroyed many villages. Green meadows and productive fields turned into ragged lunar landscapes. The giant chimneys of briquette factories and large power stations characterized the surrounding land.