Aerial views of the village Poedelwitz near lignite mining area Schleenhain. The seven hundred years old village with partly listed buildings is threatened by open pit mining. The lignite mining area Schleenhain is run by Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlengesellschaft (MIBRAG), a subsidiary of Czech company EPH. Mibrag plans to extract the coal resources situated beneath the village and therefore remove Poedelwitz. Coal fired power plant Lippendorf in the background. Cooling towers and steam.