Only the décor remains, Borschemich ...

In Nordrhein Westfalen, amongst other places in Germany, the RWE ( a power generation company ) exploits open mines where brown coal is extracted.
Tagebau Garzweiler is one of those mines and when the resources come to an end they expand. Tagebau Garzweiler 2 comes then in the picture and therefor villages have to disappear for this giant. First the inhabitants are "umgesiedelt"(relocated) and then the village gets "abgebaggert"(excavated).
Borschemich is one of those many villages that disappear for "The Greater Good"...
For this visit I took my trusted Fuji X-E1 and the XF14mm, being lightweight and performing at the same time.
Now on to the pictures ...

Only the décor remains, for now ...

Les Grands Moulins ...

Les Grands Moulins is a rather well known Urbex location I visited some time ago.

It was a factory that turned grains of corn into flour, build in 1921 and employed 200 workers during its highdays. In 1989 it closed definitively. Several ideas to reuse these premises have occured but until this day none of them saw daylight.
All images shot with a Fuji X-E1 and the XF14mm.

On the verge of destruction...

In Germany, just across the Belgian and Dutch border lies the region Nordrhein-Westfalen, ...

That particular region is very known for its mining industry of brown coal, a proces that happens above the ground. Once the coal layer has been scraped away the mine has to expand. The villages that are in that expansionzone are being completely bought up and the villagers are "umgesiedelt" or resettled. And the houses? They become ghosttowns that will be completely destroyed within a few years. It is one of those villages, on the verge of destruction, that I visited recently. Perhaps 20 houses remained, dispersed in 4 or 5 streets...

Sad but true, these parts of history have to disappear for the benefit of industry....