Caption

The excavator 1452 with the type designation SRs 1200 is a bucket wheel excavator that was manufactured in 1961 by VEB Schwermaschinenbau Lauchhammerwerk for lignite mining and was in use until 2001. After being decommissioned, the bucket-wheel excavator remained in the former Berzdorf open-cast mine near Goerlitz (now Lake Berzdorf) and has since been preserved as a museum by the Berzdorf - Oberlausitz Mining Witness Association. Due to its significance in terms of local and technical history, it has also been included in the

Date

Sep 05, 2023

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Sylvio Dittrich

Reference

BRK24B28_298

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

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77,2Mb (4,8Mb) / 20,0in x 15,0in / 6000 x 4499 (300dpi)

Keywords

Bucket wheel excavator Bucket-wheel excavator Bucket-wheel excavators Central Europe Construction machinery Eastern Germany Europe Europe's German Goerlitz Lausitz Lignite production Lusatia Middle Europe No People Oberlausitz See Upper Lusatia VEB Schwermaschinenbau Lauchhammerwerk action backhoe body of water car coal coals conserved construction machine construction machines contemporary history countryside deserted digger dredger duty empty excavator excavators former formerly historic historical history lake lakes landscape landscape photo landscape shot landscapes machine machines mining minings nature no one nobody open air open cast mining opencast mine operation operations post-war era post-war eras post-war period post-war years preserved scenery strip mining travel photography uninhabited vehicle vehicles Coal production DDR East Germany FRG GDR German Democratic Republic German Federal Republic Germany Republic of Germany Sachsen Saxony brown coal brown coals extraction lignite production productions water waterfront waters