Caption

The former Cottbus Nord open-cast mine looks like a lunar landscape. This is where the Cottbus Baltic Sea is being created. 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

BRK25A66_016

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No

Property release

No

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Rights managed

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56,9Mb (6,3Mb) / 18,2in x 12,1in / 5464 x 3640 (300dpi)

Keywords

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