Magnificent vantage point that presents home from a new, unknown perspective. The fact that the massive mining of lignite and the resulting long-lasting severe intervention in nature with the plants, animals and also us humans living in it are a bitter and serious aftertaste that allows a sad truth to be seen far away....

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