The Opencast Mine is coming near...

The smalltown Pier (Inden) is dredged because of the propagation of the Inden opencast mine. Until the end of 2014, the site will be completely gone. That’s a real ghost town! The Inden opencast mine extends between the municipality of Aldenhoven and the A44 motorway (Düsseldorf-Aachen) in the north and the A4 (Cologne-Aachen) in the south.

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