It's all about coal! Impressive insights into the creation, refinement and consumption of the black gold. The briquette factory is the special platform of industrial culture in southern Saxony-Anhalt and today, as it were, a unique relic of regional mining history. The design of the "Herrmannschacht" area shows and explains the essence of the complex lignite history in Central Germany. Starting with the formation of the black gold in the lignite forest, you will see the process and the plant species that contributed to the coalification many thousands of years ago. The unique machinery inventory from 1889 then transports you to the time of steaming machines and coal dust: briquette production in the factory.  

An impressive collection of historic furnaces in the Furnace Museum gives you a close-up look at life with coal, which was part of our time then as it is today. For railroad fans, the walk-in locomotives and the miniature park on the premises will be a spectacular experience.