Lutzerath
Lützerath was a hamlet in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, between Aachen and Düsseldorf.
Lützerath was a hamlet in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, between Aachen and Düsseldorf. In 2013, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled in favour of the expansion of the Garzweiler surface mine; in January 2023, Lützerath was eradicated to make way for the opencast mining of Garzweiler II; it will eventually be replaced with a lake. A farmer contested the plans which were approved by the higher administrative court in Münster. Climate activists moved to the village, squatting on empty farms and occupying treehouses. In an attempt to save the village, a campaign called "Lützerath lebt" was started. In October 2022, the federal government and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia announced that RWE would phase out coal mining in the region by 2030, but Lützerath would still be demolished. The eviction occurred in January 2023.
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Worth seeing in and around Lutzerath
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01St. Martinus (Borschemich)
The Church of St. Martin (German: Filialkirche St.
2.5 km · church in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lutzerath
- Airports
- Düsseldorf (DUS), 35 km · Maastricht Aachen (MST), 49 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 55 km
- Köln (Cologne) → Lutzerath89 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · €13–18
- Weeze → Lutzerath176 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · €23–32
- Dortmund → Lutzerath158 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · €22–31
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No local-transport research exists yet for Lutzerath
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lutzerath. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Lutzerath
Lutzerath is 31 km from Düsseldorf, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.