Caption

The Baltic Sea is being created here. The former Cottbus Nord open-cast mine is being flooded. The Cottbus Baltic Sea is a project in which the former open-cast lignite mine is flooded with water from the Spree, Lakoma, 02.10.2021

Date

Oct 02, 2021

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Eckel

Reference

BRK24I48_276

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No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

44,8Mb (2,7Mb) / 16,2in x 10,8in / 4846 x 3228 (300dpi)

Keywords

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