West Frankfurt, urban district of Rebstock - whoever owns a plot of land here can count himself lucky. Prices per square metre of several thousand Euro are perfectly normal. So how is it that an area as big as 27 hectares is only used as a car park? The reason is a domestic waste dump established in the 1950's. More ...

The drinking water pumped up out of a depth of more than 100 metres already contains a lot of iron. That's not only unsavoury but also violating today's drinking water regulation.

True – since the beginning of the 17th century, it’s all water under the bridge of the Havel, directly along the Robert Bosch GmbH site in Berlin’s district of Spandau. For 300 years, ammunition had been produced on the site before Bosch started the production of broad-band cables, car antennae, radio transmitters etc. But also this is all history now – production has been discontinued, the eight-hectares area and its twelve protected buildings have been put up for sale...