List of German lignite opencast mines
This list contains larger lignite - opencast mines in Germany.
| District | Name (eponymous place) |
federal country |
Beginning | The End | Size ( ha ) |
status | operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lusatian lignite mining area | Bärwalde ( Bärwalde ) |
 Saxony
|
1973 | 1992 | 311 | flooded ( Bärwalder See ) | - |
| Berzdorf ( Berzdorf on the property ) |
Saxony
|
1919 1946 |
1927 1997 |
679 | flooded ( Berzdorfer See ) | - | |
| Bluno ( Bluno ) |
Saxony
|
1955 | 1975 | - | flooded ( Neuwieser See ) | - | |
| Burghammer ( Burghammer ) |
Saxony
|
1959 | 1973 | 904 | flooded ( Burghammer reservoir ) | - | |
| Gräbendorf ( Gräbendorf ) |
 Brandenburg
|
1981 | 1992 | 524 | flooded ( Gräbendorfer See ) | - | |
| Greifenhain ( Greifenhain ) |
Brandenburg
|
1936 | 1994 | 3142 | flooded ( Altdöberner See ) | - | |
| Cottbus-North ( Cottbus ) |
Brandenburg
|
1978 | 2015 | 1900 (planned residual lake) | closed ( Cottbus Baltic Sea ) | LEAG | |
| Dreiweibern ( Dreiweibern ) |
Saxony
|
1981 | 1989 | 3585 (with Lohsa) | flooded ( Dreiweiberner See ) | - | |
| Jänschwalde ( Jänschwalde ) |
Brandenburg
|
1974 | 2023 [1] | 3165 (until 2041) [2] | in operation | LEAG | |
| Kleinleipisch / Koyne / Grünewalde ( Kleinleipisch / Koyne / Grünewalde ) |
Brandenburg
|
1912 | 1980 | 4182 | flooded ( Grünewalder leek ) | - | |
| Klettwitz ( Klettwitz ) |
Brandenburg
|
1951 | 1992 | 5174 | flooded ( Drochower See ) | - | |
| Klettwitz-Nord ( Klettwitz ) |
Brandenburg
|
1988 | 1992 | 521 | flooded ( Bergheider See ) | - | |
| Koschen ( Groß- / Kleinkoschen ) |
Brandenburg Saxony
|
1953 | 1972 | 905 | flooded ( Geierswalder See ) | - | |
| Erika / Laubusch ( Laubusch ) |
Brandenburg Saxony
|
1916 | 1962 | 2316 | flooded ( Erikasee ) | - | |
| Lohsa ( Lohsa ) |
Saxony
|
1950 | 1984 | 3585 (with three women) | flooded ( Lohsa II reservoir ) | - | |
| Meuro ( Meuro ) |
Brandenburg
|
1960 | 1999 | 3796 | flooded ( Großräschener See ) | - | |
| Meurostolln ( Meurostolln ) |
Brandenburg
|
? | ? | ? | shut down | - | |
| Nochten ( Nochten ) |
Saxony
|
1968 | approx. 2050 | 9000 | in operation | LEAG | |
| Niemtsch ( Niemtsch ) |
Brandenburg
|
1938 | 1966 | 1544 | flooded ( Senftenberger See ) | - | |
| Olbersdorf ( Olbersdorf ) |
Saxony
|
1910 1947 |
1938 1991 |
- | flooded ( Olbersdorfer See ) | - | |
| Reichwalde ( Reichwalde ) |
Saxony
|
1985 | circa 2040 | - | in operation; Deferred 1999–2010, production was resumed in 2010 with the completion of Unit R of the Boxberg power plant | LEAG | |
| Disc ( disc ) |
Saxony
|
1984 | 1996 | 725 | flooded ( disk lake ) | - | |
| Schlabendorf-Nord ( Schlabendorf am See ) |
Brandenburg
|
1959 | 1977 | 2507 | shut down | - | |
| Schlabendorf-Süd ( Schlabendorf am See ) |
Brandenburg
|
1975 | 1991 | 3299 | shut down | - | |
| Sedlitz ( Sedlitz ) |
Brandenburg
|
1926 | 1980 | 2646 | shut down | - | |
| Seese-Ost ( Seese ) |
Brandenburg
|
1983 | 1996 | 1037 | shut down | - | |
| Seese-West ( Seese ) |
Brandenburg
|
1962 | 1978 | 2884 | shut down | - | |
| Skado ( scado ) |
Saxony
|
1939 | 1977 | 488 | flooded ( Partwitzer See ) | - | |
| Spreetal ( Spreetal ) |
Saxony
|
1908 | 1983 | 3425 (with Spreetal north-east) | recultivated, in the transition areas of the adjacent coal fields partially flooded with their residual lakes | - | |
| Spreetal-Nordost ( Spreetal ) |
Saxony
|
1983 | 1991 | 3425 (with Spreetal) | flooded ( Spreetaler See ) | - | |
| Welzow-Süd ( Welzow ) |
Brandenburg
|
1962 | 2042 | 1600 (remaining hole to be flooded) [3] | in operation | LEAG | |
| Werminghoff (named after Joseph Werminghoff , near Knappenrode ) |
Saxony
|
1913 | 1945 | - | flooded ( Knappensee ) | - | |
| Central German lignite district | Amsdorf ( Amsdorf ) |
 Saxony-Anhalt
|
1958 | circa 2035 | 1000 | in operation | ROMONTA GmbH |
| Bockwitz |
Saxony
|
1982 | 1992 | 1510 | flooded ( Bockwitzer See ) | VEB lignite works Borna | |
| Breitenfeld ( Breitenfeld ) |
Saxony
|
1982 | 1991 | 382 | shut down | - | |
| Cospuden ( cospuden ) |
Saxony
|
1981 | 1993 | 321 | flooded ( Cospudener See ) | - | |
| Delitzsch Southwest ( Delitzsch ) |
Saxony
|
1977 | 1993 | 1439 | shut down | - | |
| Espenhain ( Espenhain ) |
Saxony
|
1937 | 1996 | 3831 | shut down | - | |
| Geiseltal ( Geiseltal ) |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
1929 | 1993 | 2600 ha remaining hole, 1900 ha lake area | shut down | - | |
| Goitzsche ( Goitzsche ) |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
1949 | 1991 | 6000 | flooded | - | |
| Golpa North |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
1958 | 1991 | 1685 | flooded | - | |
| Coarser |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
1984 | 1993 | 585 | shut down | - | |
| Groitz triangle |
Saxony
|
1974 | 1991 | 564 | deferred, the United Schleenhain opencast mine is to be started up again in 2030 | - | |
| Großkayna / Kayna-South ( Großkayna / Kayna ) |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
1948 | 1972 | 1321 | shut down | - | |
| Haselbach |
Saxony
|
1954 | 1993 | 1024 | shut down | - | |
| Humping ( humping ) |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
1984 | 1992 | 378 | shut down | - | |
| Königsaue ( Königsaue ) |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
1919 | 1977 | 579 | flooded | - | |
| Merseburg-East ( Merseburg ) |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
1971 | 1991 | 1685 | shut down | - | |
| Müelte / Braunsbedra ( Müelte / Braunsbedra ) |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
1698 | 1993 | 3381 | shut down | - | |
| Muldenstein ( Muldenstein ) |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
1951 | 1975 | 6300 | shut down | - | |
| Nachterstedt / Schadeleben ( Nachterstedt / Schadeleben ) |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
1856 | 1991 | 991 | flooded ( Concordia Lake ) | - | |
| Peres |
Saxony
|
1963 | 1991 | 1374 | shut down | - | |
| Profen ( Profen ) |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
1941 | 2035 | 1660 | in operation | Central German Brown Coal Society (MIBRAG) | |
| United Schleenhain opencast mine ( Schleenhain ) |
Saxony
|
1949 | circa 2040 | 2500 (previously used) | in operation | Central German Brown Coal Society (MIBRAG) | |
| Witznitz ( Witznitz ) |
Saxony
|
1942 | 1993 | 1875 | flooded | VEB lignite works Borna | |
| Zipsendorf-Süd ( Zipsendorf ) |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
after 1955 | flooded | - | |||
| Zwenkau ( Zwenkau ) |
Saxony
|
1921 | 1999 | - | flooded | - | |
| Helmstedt | Schöningen ( Schöningen ) |
 Lower Saxony
|
1979 | 2016 | about 600 | shut down | Helmstedter Revier GmbH (HSR) |
| Wulfersdorf |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
1952 | 1989 | 559 | flooded | - | |
| Rhenish lignite district | Alfred (north of Düren - Konzendorf ) |
 North Rhine-Westphalia
|
1917 | 1940 | - | recultivated, partially flooded ( Echtzer bathing lake ) | Rhine brown |
| Astrea |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
1830 | 1924 | - | recultivated | Juntersdorf lignite company | |
| Bergheim |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
- | 2002 | - | Backfilled, recultivation by 2011 | RWE Power | |
| Concordia Nord (north of Kierdorf ) |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
1897 | 1958 | - | recultivated, flooded ( Concordia Lake ) |
Carl Brendgen Most recently Roddergrube |
|
| Düren (south of Düren - Mariaweiler ) |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
1941 | 1956 | - | recultivated, partly flooded ( Düren bathing lake ) | Rhine brown | |
| Fortuna-Garsdorf |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
- | 1993 | - | recultivated | RWE Power | |
| Cheeky |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
1951 | 2003 | - | recultivated | Rhine brown | |
| Frimmersdorf |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
- | - | - | recultivated | Rhine brown | |
| Garzweiler |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
- | circa 2045 | 2300 | in operation (recultivation with landscape lake planned) | RWE Power | |
| Gruhlwerk (west of Brühl ) |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
1927 | 1949 | - | recultivated | - | |
| Hambach |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
1978 | circa 2040 | approx. 4000 | in operation | RWE Power | |
| Huertherberg ( Huerth ) |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
1908 | 1961 | - | recultivated the local recreation area Hürtherberg |
Most recently United Steelworks | |
| In the |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
1978 | around 2030 | 1100 (approved: 4500) | in operation (recultivation with landscaped lake planned: Indescher See ) | RWE Power | |
| Liblar |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
? | ? | - | recultivated, partially flooded ( Liblarer See ) | ? | |
| Lucherberg |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
? | ? | - | recultivated, partly flooded ( Lucherberger See ) | ? | |
| Theresia ( Huerth ) |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
1824 | 1983 | - | recultivated | E.Scholl Rheinbraun |
|
| United Ville (near Knapsack ) |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
1901 | 1988 | - | charred, partly recultivated, today partly landfill | Rhine brown | |
| future |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
1936 | 1987 | - | recultivated, partly flooded ( Blausteinsee ) | BIAG future , later Rheinbraun | |
| Zülpich |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
1953 | 1969 | - | flooded ( water sports lake Zülpich , nature conservation lake Füssenich ) | Viktor Rolff KG , today Juntersdorf GmbH |
- Remarks
- In the former Olbersdorf opencast mine , coal was mined underground from 1800 to 1911 until it was developed as an opencast mine.
- Meurostolln was not an opencast mine , but an underground mine on lignite in the 19th century.
- In Morschenich , in today's mining field of the Hambach opencast mine , there was an attempt to mine Rhenish lignite underground from 1939 to 1955 with the Union 103 mine.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ By Michael Strohmann: Last ton of coal promoted in the Helmstedter Revier. In: www.helmstedter-nachrichten.de. Retrieved September 29, 2016 .