Welzow

Set amid the sandy lowlands of Lower Lusatia in southern Brandenburg, Welzow is a town whose character is shaped by the Welzow-Süd open-cast lignite mine. Energy production has long been a defining part of local life, and the mine’s edges show how excavation has changed the flat, pine-wooded terrain. Welzow is also known in Lower Sorbian as Wjelcej, reflecting the fact that this area belongs to the historic settlement region of the Sorbs, a West Slavic minority in Germany. It lies within a wider post-mining area where former industrial land is being recultivated and new lakes have appeared elsewhere across Lusatia. Browse other webcams across Brandenburg and Lower Lusatia to place Welzow’s mining landscape in a wider geographic context.

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