For location details and up-to-date information on travelling to The Hive. Edward Wang (Rowan University, New Jersey, and Beijing University): The Persistent Appeal of Intellectual History in China: A Preliminary Observation/. Along with the villages, a part of the regional identity will also disappear into the gigantic pit forever. Opening Hours and Travel Information for the Archive and Archaeology service. Houses, churches, stores, garages, streets, sports facilities and cemeteries have been abandoned by the inhabitants and are waiting for the excavators. Twielemeier's pictures show a landscape in agony. Thirteen communities will be sacrificed by 2045. There they built new houses with the financial "compensation" they received.įrom 2002 to 2009, photographer Johannes Twielemeier documented the effects of the "Garzweiler" opencast lignite mine in the Lower Rhine region. About 70% of the affected citizens have accepted Rheinbraun's offer and moved to newly developing villages. Although highly controversial regarding energy policies, the resettlement of the villages began in the year 2000 and gradually transformed an entire region into a ghost landscape of empty houses and orphaned streets. will be resettled or have been resettled in recent years. More than 7,500 people in 13 villages will have to make way for the conversion, which means that the affected villages Inden, Otzenrath, Spenrath, Pesch, Holz etc. Here, on a total area of 114 square kilometers, the largest opencast lignite mining area in Europe will be created by 2044. In 1984, the Rheinbraun energy group began planning Garzweiler II, the expansion of the existing Garzweiler I lignite opencast mine between Aachen and Düsseldorf. PLACES WITHOUT RETURN Photo Works by Johannes Twielemeier
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