Photo Gallery Lakes In the Making
From the lunar-landscape, a lake district is under construction. Over the next five years, 23 lakes, inter-connected by canals are to be created on the former brown coal mines. It will be Europe's biggest artificial lake district.
From this tower, visitors survey the emerging landscape. Some lakes are already filled, others are still holes in the ground.
Some of the plans are still on the drawing board. This is a bridge design to be built over the lake in Senftenberg.
Rolf Kuhn is in charge of a ten-year-project, a so-called international building exhibition (IBA), to oversee what he calls a "unique transition." He used to be the director of the influential Bauhaus school.
Floating houses are among the projects taking shape in the area. There is also a floating diving school.
The most famous post-industrial landmark is the F60, an overburden conveyor bridge. It once dug gashes into the landscape to dig out the brown coal below. These days the 502-meter-long structure has been converted into a viewing platform for tourists.
Here's another viewing platform, this time atop the massive wastewater treatment facilities belonging to the former coking plant in Lauchhammer.
