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Garzweiler surface mine

mine
Place opencast_mine Q205775

Facts

10 properties

Identity

Instance of
opencast mine

Location

Country
Germany[6]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.064°, 6.502°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Rhein-Kreis Neuss, Rhein-Erft District, Heinsberg, Mönchengladbach[2][3][4][5]
Located in/on physical feature
Rhenish lignite mining area[9]
More facts +5
Different from
Garzweiler[11]
Has part(s)
Garzweiler See[8]
Hashtag
TagebauGarzweiler[12]
Operator
RWE Power, Rheinbraun[7]
Product or material produced
lignite[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Garzweiler surface mine ar منجم غارتزوايلر da Garzweiler dagbrud de Braunkohletagebau Garzweiler de Tagebau Garzweiler es Garzweiler fr mine de Garzweiler it Miniera di Garzweiler ja ガルツヴァイラー鉱山 tr Garzweiler Maden Ocağı zh 加兹韦勒露天褐煤矿
🔖 Identifiers · 8
VIAF cluster ID
304970229
GND ID
1038164141
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Garzweiler3.JPG ↗
Freebase ID
/m/0bs7fbp
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1774280
GeoNames ID
2922411
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2248777
Who's on First ID
1125821543
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Berlin 2026-09-26 L/MNA · DE GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
Located in the administrative territorial entity 4
Mönchengladbach, Heinsberg, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, Rhein-Erft District
Country 1
Germany
Instance of 1
open-pit lignite mine
Located in this place 1
Bagger 288
Product or material produced 1
lignite
← FactGrid item ID 1
Herriard
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Summary

Garzweiler surface mine is an opencast mine[1].

Related Entities

Germany

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · Vicarage · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Has parts → —
    Has part(s) → Garzweiler See
    Different from → Garzweiler
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40489|batch #40489]]: open-pit lignite mine,lignite"
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