Exhibitions

> Brick factory and power station
> Treasures of the Earth - Minerals of the Lausitz
> Pit fire brigade and rescue team
> Fire places
> Lignite and environment
> Mine surveying - the art of setting borders
> Digger, mining locomotives and model railways
> Pit head frames and underground clearances
> Living beside the factory gates

The façade of the almost one hundred years old brick factory is shining in clinker red. Today, it is the hallmark of the Knappenrode Energy Factory: Lausitz Mining Museum. Ten years ago, the last shift ended here. Turbines, driers, presses were stopped. What remained is now a remarkable piece of industrial history.

The factory buildings take you back to the Wilhelminian era. The collection is unique in Europe: a complete brick production line. Steam turbines and a power station show impressing German engineering craftsmanship.

The whole area can be explored above and under ground. More than a dozen exhibitions are waiting to be explored: the biggest exhibition of fire places in Europe, the mineral collection 'treasures of the world' or a collection of mining lamps, historic fire engines, diggers, steam engines and model railways. The 'Zechenhaus'-Inn will cater for your culinary needs.

[Plan of the museum, click to zoom]