Coal firm wiping 800-year-old German village off the map

Coal firm wiping 800-year-old German village off the map
Mühlrose was a stronghold of the ethnic Sorb minority in Germany. (Image: Robert Michael/Picture Alliance via Getty)
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By Petra Sorge, with assistance from Maciej MartewiczThe village of Mühlrose in Germany’s far east has stood since the 13th century through wars, fires, unscrupulous lords, the division of the country and its reunification. Now its 200 people are packing up and leaving because of an industry they thought was also being consigned to history. Mühlrose will be wiped off the map to make way for a coal mine.Only a few signs of the village’s once-fierce resistance remain. “Rescue our beautiful Mühlrose,” re...

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