Caption

Closed collieries, colliery ruins, and coal dumps dominated the image of the Ruhr area in 1965 and 1966, Germany, Europe

Date

Oct 09, 2020

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Klaus Rose

Reference

BRK24F41_180

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

84,1Mb (8,0Mb) / 18,2in x 17,9in / 5468 x 5377 (300dpi)

Keywords

deserted no one No People nobody uninhabited empty material materials ruin ruins Ruined building Ruined buildings power generation power generations energy production power supply electricity supply power supplies energy supply mine mines colliery stockpile stockpiles coal coals mining mining industry industries raw material raw materials natural resource environment protection environment protection environmental protection environmental conservation environmental pollution environmental pollution pollution pollution of the environment environmental contamination ecocide environmental destruction ecocides Ruhr district Ruhr area Ruhr Ruhrgebiet Ruhr region North Rhine-Westphalia NRW Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia North-Rhine Westphalia German picture pictures image images Europe Europe's historic historical historically ramshackle run-down dilapidated decayed marooned derelict rundown rundown deteriorated industrial disused closed out-of-service out of service abandoned shut down decommissionin decommissioned demolition area demolition areas demolition ground demolition site demolition break breaks demolitions break-off energy energies old oldest energy source energy sources environmental pollution ecological damage environmental pollutions tear down tearing down tears demolish demolishing demolishes excavation material excavation materials overburden mine dump attle heap tailings pile tailings pile slag heap spoil heap fossil energy source fossil energy sources fossil fuel fossil fuels former formerly Germany German Federal Republic Republic of Germany FRG BRD economy economies Business environmental damage environmental damages ecological damage environmental issue environmental issues polluting harmful to the environment Environmentally harmful Central Europe Middle Europe coal mining coal mine Raw material extraction Coal dump Coal dumps