Hamm „Industrial Estate Sachsen“

Ecological industrial estate on fallow mining land

Coal-mining operations in the „Sachsen“ pit in the town of Hamm continued until 1976. Following their release by the mining authority, the sites were purchased by the NRW State Development Company LEG at the beginning of 1980. This made a 50 ha area of industrial wasteland available in the Heessen district, on the periphery of the town centre, which Hamm council used for the development of an ecological industrial estate.