some 500 guests will witness how there are the last pieces of black gold to the top and Steinmeier hand. Then they sing the mijnwerkerslied ‘Glück auf, der Steiger kommt’ accompanied by the Ruhrkolen choir. The night before replaced by the catholic and evangelical church in the German anthracite all off with a service in the cathedral of Essen.
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At the peak in the fifties, it employed more than 600,000 people in the German coal industry. Now, most of the coal for the power plants, which to the dismay of environmentalists, imported.