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This was accompanied by the resettlement of local villages and towns and the largest forest area in the region, the Hambach Forest, was largely cleared. On 17 January 1984, the first brown coal was mined. Hambach is the largest open-pit mine in Germany, with an area of 3,389 hectares (as of 2007), with an approved maximum size of 8,500 hectares.
Bagger 293 in the Hambach brown coal mine, 2008. Class overview; Name: MAN TAKRAF RB293 (1995-2003) Bagger 293 (2003-Present) Cost
Since 2002, annual production has remained at a level of around 100 million tons. Following the phasing out and recultivation of the opencast mines in the Middle District, three large opencast mines are still producing today: Garzweiler open pit mine, Hambach open pit mine and, in the western district, the Inden open pit mine.
The Bagger 288 was built for the job of removing overburden before coal mining at the Hambach surface mine in Germany. It can excavate 240,000 tons of coal [6] or 240,000 cubic metres of overburden daily [7] – the equivalent of a soccer field dug to 30 m (98 ft) deep. The coal produced in one day fills 2400 coal wagons.
On the 27 October 2018, a bucket-wheel excavator near the village of Morschenich as well as the rails of the Hambach industrial spur belonging to the Hambach surface mine were occupied by several thousand activists for 22 hours in order to symbolically block the transfer of lignite to the power plants. [2]
Hambach (Niederzier) , a village near Niederzier, Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Hambach open pit mine (German: Tagebau Hambach), a large opencast mine in North Rhine- Westphalia, Germany; Hambach Forest, a biodiversity-rich forest near the mine, center of protests against threats of being cut down
Sophienhöhe is about 6 km east of the city centre of Jülich bordering Niederzier and Titz at the north-end of the open pit Tagebau Hambach. The distance (in respect to sea-level) between the top of Sophienhöhe and the lowest point of the pit is 594.8 meters. Tagebau Hambach is the lowest surface point in Europe, lying 293 meters below sea level.
Hambach Forest (German: Hambacher Wald, Hambacher Forst (German pronunciation: [ˈhambaxɐ ˈfɔʁst] ⓘ), Bürgewald, Die Bürge) is an ancient forest located near Buir in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany, between Cologne and Aachen. It was planned to be cleared as part of the Hambach surface mine by owner RWE AG. There were protests ...