And iirc it’s something like 500m deep… absolutely awesome human achievement apart from the tiny little problems with it (it keeps eating up neighboring villages plus it produces brown coal which is the worst kind, environmentally speaking)
They will fill it up with water once they are done mining. It’ll take about 40 years to fill though, between ground water and extracting water from the Rhine river.
Looks like Hambach, which is an absolutely humbling sight: https://maps.app.goo.gl/D5Qhp7CkHCgYebaA8
Holy hell, that hole could fit two Manhattans.
And iirc it’s something like 500m deep… absolutely awesome human achievement apart from the tiny little problems with it (it keeps eating up neighboring villages plus it produces brown coal which is the worst kind, environmentally speaking)
It really is a funny feeling, where it looks genuinely awesome (in the literal sense) but at the same time is also horrifically destructive
Exactly that!
Also destroyed one of germanys oldest forests
They will fill it up with water once they are done mining. It’ll take about 40 years to fill though, between ground water and extracting water from the Rhine river.