Lohsa opencast mine
The Lohsa opencast mine , Łazowska jama in Upper Sorbian , was an open-cast lignite mine in the Lusatian lignite district northeast of the eponymous town of Lohsa in northern Upper Lusatia . 14 million tons of raw lignite were extracted from the Lohsa opencast mine. The Lohsa II reservoir , which was completely flooded in 2013, is located here .
history
The development began in 1933 as opencast mine II Werminghoff. Up to 1960 53 million tons of brown coal had been mined. The coal mining began with the Glückauf II opencast mine (1948), as the coal deposits near Lohsa were exhausted. The continuation in the Lohsa area began as early as 1942 when the Lohsa III opencast mine was opened. From 1950 to 1984 around 1.2 billion m³ of overburden and 300 million t of coal were mined. The maximum was reached in 1963.
In the course of the recultivation of the post-mining landscape , the LMBV began flooding the remaining open pit with water from the Spree on August 14, 1997 . The lake now has an area of around ten km² and a storage volume of 97 million m³ of water. This makes it one of the larger lakes in the Lusatian Lakeland .
economy
The municipality of Lohsa in particular was shaped by open-cast lignite mining like no other in the region. The open pit and its economic environment employed large parts of the population. The main buyers of the raw lignite were the Werminghoff briquette factory (Knappenrode), the Boxberg , Hagenwerder and Schwarze Pumpe power plants and the local lignite refinement.
For the Anhaltischen Kohlenwerke AG as well as for the Knappenroder briquette factory, the open pit was decisive.
Demolitions
There were claims of Neu-Lohsa , Neida , Ratzen with the districts Geißlitz , Dreiweibern , Kolpen and Lips .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lignite mining and rehabilitation in the Lohsa mining area, Burghammer, Bärwalde LMBV, accessed on April 5, 2019
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ N , 14 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E