[Moru]

Great service! All it took to find these less beautiful pictures of Germany was the rough location from google maps entered in the url:

https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer_fla...

It shows why Germans still burn coal in their houses. A lot of closeups of the surface mining of coal outside Cologne.

[mkesper]

Umm, no. That brown coal is used for gaining electricity. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagebau_Inden

[Moru]

Yes, these do but there are many coal mines in Germany...