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, Neurath lignite-fired power plant, near Grevenbroich, RWE Power AG, storm clouds over the Rhenish lignite mining area, rape field, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Date

May 14, 2021

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK25A07_101

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NA

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No

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Rights managed

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120,7Mb (7,1Mb) / 26,5in x 17,7in / 7952 x 5304 (300dpi)

Keywords

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yellow mining minings gray grey Europe Europe's Christian rape field rape fields canola field rapeseed field rapeseed fields canola fields oilseed rape field oilseed rape fields Field of rapeseed field of rape village town place spot mood atmosphere smoke smoking smokes crucification crucifications crucifixion stroller strollers walker walkers People walking religious agricultural agrarian farming agriculturally cloudy flowering blooming blooms in flower blossoming blossom flowering meteorology meteorology dramatic climate change climate change acreage acreages cultivated area threatening menacing remember remembering remembers commemorates commemorating cloister church cloister churches monastery church convent church Klosterkirche landscape landscapes scenery sceneries landscape photograph countryside landscape shot landscape photo contrast contrasts cooling tower cooling towers atmospheric moody electricity electricity cloudy overcast sky overcast cloudy sky cloudy skies sky with cloud energy energies recreational activity recreational activities energy source energy sources wayside cross wayside crosses roadside calvary cross field cross european smoke fume smoke carbon dioxide CO 2 carbon dioxides CO2 emission emissions environmental pollution ecological damage environmental pollutions power supply power supplies power industry energy industry power industries Rhenish Rhineland stormy atmosphere stormy atmospheres thunderstorm mood Thunderstorm atmosphere production productions extraction fossil energy source fossil energy sources fossil fuel fossil fuels former formerly remembrance remembrances commemoration commemorating memory memories commemorate Germany German Federal Republic Republic of Germany FRG BRD cloud atmosphere cloud atmospheres cloudy atmosphere cloudy atmospheres cloudy mood smoke fume block blocks industrial building industrial buildings environmental damage environmental damages ecological damage brown coal power station brown coal power stations lignite-fired power plant lignite-fired power plants environmental issue environmental issues travel photography Neurath Power Station Grevenbroich polluting harmful to the environment Environmentally harmful outdoors outdoor out outside open sky rain cloud rain clouds Nimbostratus Nimbostratus cloud Nimbostratus clouds rainy cloud Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier Rhenish lignite mining region Rhenish lignite mining area particulate matter fine dust Central Europe Middle Europe coal mining coal mine climate crisis rain front Rapeseed cultivation oil seed rape crop Rape cultivation thunderhead thunderheads thundercloud thunderclouds Storm cloud Storm clouds Kumulonimbus Cumulonimbus Strip mining lignite Strip mining lignite lignite open-pit mining Opencast lignite mining open-cast lignite mine opencast lignite mine Opencast lignite mining area Large power plant Lignite mining Rapeseed field Rapeseed fields Storm front Thunderstorm front monastery monasteries cloister Monastery Monastery facilities monastery complex Monastery complexes Neurath lignite-fired power plant Neurath lignite-fired power station Power plant unit