According to the coal-compromise should flow for the structural change billion in the brown coal areas. However, on the list of projects proposals that are questionable – the research of the ARD-magazine “Monitor show”.

Normally, there is hardly a Tourist runs on the Klopikauer dump in Bad Lauchstädt. A wooden observation tower offers views of the Central German brown coal district, the signs you look for but in vain. Also, perhaps, because the days of the tower could soon be counted.

The mayor wants to tear down the 20-year-old tower at the loved one. Two cross-beams are ailing. You could replace, but now a steel tower. Four times as high and ten times more expensive than the old one: 1.3 million Euro of the steel colossus.

Possible which could make the coal-compromise. Because the lookout tower on the old mine tailings can be found on the list of project proposals, financed by the German länder, the structural change in the brown coal regions.

Up to 2038 should go final

by 2038 at the Latest, in Germany, the last lignite power plant from the grid. Especially in the Eastern areas, the brown coal means many well-paid jobs.

in Particular in the Lausitz: There Boxberg of the bärwalder see lake is located at the power plant. Although here in the Winter no one is allowed on the lake and never someone through the ice is broken, to a “ice rescue platform” for the local fire brigade. The cost for the municipality is actually in the Land of Saxony, however, now appeared on the list of immediate measures to address the Coal phase-out.