Caption

The village of Keyenberg, originally intended to make way for the Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mine, remains standing after the coal compromise, but is largely abandoned and empty, one of the few houses still inhabited, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Date

Feb 06, 2023

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK24I04_157

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

155,3Mb (6,3Mb) / 30,1in x 20,1in / 9022 x 6015 (300dpi)

Keywords

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