Caption

Cross commemorates the former monastery church of St. Luzia, Bedburg-Frauweiler, from 1488, it was blown up in 1970 to make way for the former Fortuna-Garsdorf open-cast lignite mine, storm clouds over the Rhenish lignite mining area, rape field, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

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Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK24E73_034

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Rights managed

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120,7Mb (6,2Mb) / 26,5in x 17,7in / 7952 x 5304 (300dpi)

Keywords

Arable land Brassica napus Canola Central Europe Christian Christianity Church building Environmentally harmful Europe FRG Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia Field of rapeseed German German Federal Republic Germany Klosterkirche Kumulonimbus Lignite mining Middle Europe Monastery NRW Nimbostratus Nimbostratus cloud No People North Rhine-Westphalia North-Rhine Westphalia Oilseed rape Opencast lignite mining Opencast lignite mining area Pastureland Pastures Rape Rape cultivation Rape-seed Rapeseed Rapeseed cultivation Rapeseed field Republic of Germany Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier Rhenish Rhenish lignite mining area Rhenish lignite mining region Rhineland Storm cloud Storm front Strip mining lignite Thunderstorm atmosphere Thunderstorm front abbey acreage agrarian agricultural agricultural crop agriculture atmosphere atmospheric bad weather black bloom blossom brown coal building canola field church cloister cloister church cloud cloud atmosphere cloudy cloudy atmosphere cloudy mood cloudy sky coal coal mining commemorate commemorates commemorating commemoration construction contrast convent church country lane countryside cropland cross crucification crucifix crucifixion cultivated area dark deserted dirt road dirt track distance dramatic dreary ecocide ecological damage electricity supply empty energy industry energy production energy source energy supply environment environmental contamination environmental damage environmental destruction environmental issue environmental pollution european extraction farming farmland field field cross field path field road flowering former fossil energy source fossil fuel gloomy gray grey harmful to the environment in flower landscape landscape photo landscape shot lignite lignite open-pit mining memory menacing meteorology mining monastery monastery church monastery complex mood