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The Garzweiler opencast mine is a brown coal opencast mine operated by RWE Power in the northern Rhenish brown coal area. The mining area extends between the cities of Bedburg, Grevenbroich, Jüchen, Erkelenz and Mönchengladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The Garzweiler open-cast mine (later called Garzweiler I) was created in 1983 through the merger of the Frimmersdorf-Süd and Frimmersdorf-West mining fields. Frimmersdorf-Süd emerged around 1960 from the merger of the Neurath and Heck pits, whose mining history dates back to the early 20th century. [The mining by the RWE subsidiary Rheinbraun was initially carried out in the first of two sections designated as Garzweiler I and II. Garzweiler I concerns an area of ​​66 square kilometers east of the original route of the A44 motorway, the Garzweiler II mining area concerns an area directly west of Garzweiler I including the original motorway route and is 48 square kilometers.