Isweiler field

Isweiler Feld , also known as the Erp-Irresheim open-cast mine , is the name of a lignite deposit in the Merzenich , Nörvenich and Erftstadt areas in the Düren and Rhein-Erft districts . In this area there is still 1.396 billion m³ of lignite that has not yet been developed.

In 1985, the first information about the planned Isweiler Feld opencast mine came up. Accordingly, the Hambach opencast mine was to be continued in a southerly direction. The locations would have been dredged:

• Frauwüllesheim in the hamlet of Isweiler , which gave it its name
• Eschweiler over field
• Mad home
• Hochkirchen
• Eggersheim
• Lüxheim
• Poll
• Dorweiler
• Pingsheim
• Norvenich
• Girbelsrath
• Erp
• Hamlet in the plain

According to a calculation from 1986, 9,699 people would have had to be resettled at that time.

In Nörvenich, the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party founded the citizens' initiative “Citizens against Isweiler Feld”. The aim of the initiative was to delete the planned opencast mine from the state development plan of North Rhine-Westphalia , to prevent its inclusion in the area development plan and to prevent another open pit in the greater Düren area. Probably because of the strong public protest , the plans by Rheinbraun , now RWE , disappeared in the drawers. On May 15, 1987, the then Cologne District President Franz-Josef Antwerpes was passed a resolution to this effect.

In the mid-2000s, the planned open pit came back into the press. The reason was the planned downsizing of the Garzweiler opencast mine in the neighboring Rhine district of Neuss .

Web links

• http://www.gruene-noervenich.de/138/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://emhosting.de/kunden/gruene-dueren.de/system/upload/download_387.jpg
2. ↑ Is RWE examining a new opencast mine? ( Memento from June 24, 2010 on WebCite ) Kurth, Norbert, In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . November 23, 2006, accessed June 24, 2010.
3. ↑ “The future of lignite in selected areas”, Table 2.5: List of the locations possibly affected by an Erp-Irresheim opencast mine, Environmental Policy Research Center of the Free University of Berlin  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 147 kB, accessed on March 26, 2010.