New Home for an Old Church
Heuersdorf
is a small German town near Leipzig. The entire town is being
abandoned as a nearby lignite, or brown coal, mine expands. The
community decided to save the 13th-century Emmaus Church and move it to
another place. The area surrounding the church was cleared and cracks
within the building's structure were repaired with concrete. Engineers
then wrapped the church in four steel corsets and painstakingly put a
steel-and-concrete base under the church. The church was lifted using
hydraulic lifts to make room to move in an enormous, multi-wheeled
transport bed. Additional preparations for the €3 million move included
repairing roads, diverting small rivers and taking down power, phone
and traffic lines. After the 12 km (7.5 mile) trip that lasted 6 days
it has been relocated to the nearby town of Borna, right next to one of
that town's churches.
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