The F60 was built by VEB TAKRAF Lauchhammer in Lichterfeld from 1989 to 1991. It is the largest movable industrial machine ever built. This brown coal conveyor bridge worked just from March 1991 to June
1992. After only 13 months of
operation, the F60 was shut down because of reasons related to energy
policy. The opencast mine Klettwitz-Nord, where the F60 was located, was
closed.
it is here
The steel construction is also known as the „Horizontal Eiffel
Tower of Lusatia“. With a total length of 502 meters, the F60 beats the
Eiffel Tower, which is 182m shorter.
Thanks to a handful of
enthusiasts, led by the local council of Lichterfeld, and to Elke Löwe,
a landscape architect from Senftenberg, the F60 could escape its fate.
They realized the potential of the bridge, which combines old and new,
being not only a symbol of the industrial heritage of the region, but a sign of the structural change as well.
74m above ground
Glück auf!
„The F60 is a godsend for the Lausitz region, for Brandenburg and for
the whole of Germany“.
[former Federal President Johannes Rau 2003] 
74m above ground
Glück auf!
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