Your visit to the Mining Technology Park
22 display boards show you the way through the Mining Technology Park. The panels also explain the former work processes. Exploring the park alone is too strenuous for you? No problem! 60 and 90 minute group tours about the site. What is special about the 90-minute park tour? Former employees of the Espenhain open-cast mine will guide you to the machines. They will also tell you about their exciting daily work. History cannot be conveyed more vividly! Admission costs 7 €, reduced price 4 €, children up to five years are free. Our Tip: Get the LEIPZIG REGIO Card and saves 20% of the entrance fee.
The Mining Technology Park is open this year until November 14th, Wednesday to Sunday and on public holidays from 10:00 a.m. to 17:00 p.m. During the summer and autumn holidays, however, extended opening hours apply. Opening hours.
Leipzig's industrial culture up close
However, the Mining Technology ParkThe park gives you a glimpse into the past. On the 5,4 hectare site between Markkleeberger and Störmthaler Lakes you can see the entire production cycle of an open-pit mine The plant was created by the preservation of two large devices from the former Espenhain open-cast mine before their already decided scrapping.
The 1300-ton Bucket wheel excavator and the 2400 ton belt spreader Today, these two heavyweights were able to be built thanks to the initiative of committed members of the Mining Technology Park e. V. from destruction. Support was provided by the municipalities of Großpösna, Espenhain and Markkleeberg. The Free State of Saxony and the Leipzig Regional Council in cooperation with the LMBV and MIBRAG also supported the project. Admire the extent of the machine technology and logistics in this gigantic open-air museum! You can also learn about the production and consumption of energy. The park also has an extensive collection of various work tools, clothing and open-cast mining technology.
From lignite to local recreation
On hot summer days, Leipzigers are drawn to the New Lake District. When the temperatures are high, you can relax on the sandy beaches of the Cospudener, Markkleeberger or Störmthaler Sees make yourself comfortable. Crystal clear water awaits you there.
But it wasn't always like this! Where you can swim, relax and be active today, 25 years ago people were working hard. Leipzig Neuseenland owes its existence to decades of extraction, processing and use of the resource lignite. Today’s lakes have been used for many decades as open-pit mines But after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the early 1990s, this came to an end. In the course of reunification, energy policy changed radically. For Leipzig’s open-cast lignite mine, this meant a abrupt endAs a result, almost the entire infrastructure of an industry disappeared within a short period of time. The remaining open-cast mining pits were flooded. The resulting lakes are known today as the Leipzig NeuseenlandThus, the brown coal era has been forgotten, as there is little left to remind us of it today.
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