Assignment: The village that came back from the dead

作业:死而复生的村庄

The Documentary Podcast

社会与文化

2025-02-18

26 分钟
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In Germany some 300 villages have been destroyed since the Second World War because of the coal that lay beneath them. Villagers have grown up in the knowledge that one day their house will be torn down and generally they’ve accepted the deal on offer: the mine buys their house and they build a new one in a brand-new village. But the demands of climate change and the need to curb CO2 emissions has changed attitudes to fossil fuels. In one region west of Cologne all mining activity will cease by 2030, 15 years earlier than planned. Which means that villages designated for demolition are now going to survive. That news isn’t always welcome. Tim Mansel has visited one of them.
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  • Tell me what you think.

  • When you look over my shoulder at this huge hole in the ground.

  • It's just impressing how huge it is.

  • You've got a big smile on your face.

  • Yeah.

  • Goosebumps as well.

  • It's got goosebumps.

  • Yeah, goosebumps.

  • Because of a vast crater carved into the landscape.

  • A scene of massive environmental destruction,

  • but also a tourist attraction complete with seating and signboards.

  • I'm a little bit speechless.

  • I hadn't think that it's so big here.

  • I had the map on Google Maps and I saw this big hole on the map and I say, hey, we have to go here.

  • And it's incredible.

  • Where are you from?

  • From Pforzheim.

  • It's between Stuttgart and Karlsruhe.

  • That's quite a long way from here.

  • Yes.