Visitor mine overburden conveyor bridge F60

General view of the conveyor bridge

The “visitor mine overburden conveyor bridge F60” is located on Bergheider See near the town of Lichterfeld in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg .

The F60 overburden conveyor bridge exhibited here was used in the Klettwitz-Nord open-cast lignite mine near Klettwitz from 1991 to 1992 . The conveyor bridge is now a project of the International Building Exhibition Fürst-Pückler-Land and is open to the public. It is also an anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH).

The F60 conveyor bridge is also known as the lying Eiffel Tower (Lusatia) due to its dimensions and comparable construction .

history

View into the structure of the F60

The overburden bridge is the last of five of the Combine TAKRAF built F60 . The assembly was carried out between 1989 and 1991 for the Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine in Lauchhammer by today's MAN TAKRAF Fördertechnik GmbH . The bridges are the largest moving technical machines in the world. On February 5, 1991, the F60 went into operation. From its start-up to its shutdown on June 30, 1992, it moved around 27 million m³ of overburden. After reunification , the Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine became the responsibility of the Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft (LMBV), which decommissioned it on behalf of the federal government and renovated it in an economically and environmentally friendly manner.

As part of the Lusatian lighthouses , the conveyor bridge was one of the external projects of the World Exhibition Expo 2000 in Hanover .

Between 2000 and 2010, the International Building Exhibition Fürst-Pückler-Land pursued the goal of giving the region new impetus and the former Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine was also integrated into the concept. The open-cast mine has been expanded to a visitor open-cast mine and the conveyor bridge has been accessible since 1998. At its top, at a height of 74 meters, there is a viewing platform with an all-round viewing house.

The area is also the venue for various concerts and festivals . In March 2017, it served as the backdrop for the music video for Dein Lied , a song by the band Kraftklub .

literature

Matthias Baxmann: Visitor mine overburden conveyor bridge F60 . In: Kulturamt des Landkreis Elbe-Elster (Hrsg.): Coal, wind and water. An energy historical foray through the Elbe-Elster-Land . Herzberg / Elster 2001, ISBN 3-00-008956-X , p. 73 to 88 .
Collective of authors: Mining history in the Lauchhammer district . Ed .: Traditionsverein Braunkohle Lauchhammer eV Lauchhammer 2003, p. 102 to 104 .