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This building was selected and protected by
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Flemish government to abolish the plant. However, under an international outcry from heritage organizations, the Ministry cabinet of Geert Bourgeois decided in July, not only on its conservation, but also on the restoration of the
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started operation in
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Western Europe. Therefore, the site of the former coal mine of Beringen is one of the happy few within the ERIH-network.
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The building stile of this plant is monolithic. It is a ten-story building, raised in metal with walls consisting of two bays in glass interspersed by a bay in brick masonry. It has been built upon palisades above railways in order to load the coal.
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Beringen the
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building. Therefore, a fund of 15.9 million euros was offered. By this move, only several little parts of the coal washery, which have been added recently, can be demolished.
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383:References
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