Germany - Aue - Brown coal delivery in former DDR

A coal delivery man deposits chunks of brown coal into the cellar via a conveyor belt for an elderly lady who stands outside in the bitter cold wearing only a housecoat this grim day. Her slippers can be seen standing among fallen briquettes that have dropped on to the wet cobbled street as the man oversees the delivery from a truck that has backed on to the pavement near a junction. A passing Trabant car rattles up the hill past a mother who pauses to ensure a safe crossing for her baby. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008..

Add to Cart Add to Lightbox Download

Filename: DDR_travel04-06_1990.jpg
Image Size: 5239x3520 / 4.7MB; DDR GDR old heritage history past era bygone historical historic ideology Germany East Germany former German politics political Socialist Communist Cold War Eastern Bloc Warsaw Pact enemy opposition 1990 reminder Communism indoctrinated coal brown bricks delivery house home domestic polluting male man housewife elderly pensioner woman female lady Trabants cobbled street junction pouring Aue Saxony winter fuel spillage truck lorry fossil fuels greenhouse gasses sidewalk pavement transportation transport conveyor belt buying consumer usage user cold bleak Erzgebirgskreis Silberberg citizen people community neighborhood neighbourhood passer-by parked obstruction angle town industrial business wet cobbles briquettes heating emissions utility
Contained in galleries

A coal delivery man deposits chunks of brown coal into the cellar via a conveyor belt for an elderly lady who stands outside in the bitter cold wearing only a housecoat this grim day. Her slippers can be seen standing among fallen briquettes that have dropped on to the wet cobbled street as the man oversees the delivery from a truck that has backed on to the pavement near a junction. A passing Trabant car rattles up the hill past a mother who pauses to ensure a safe crossing for her baby. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008..