Staßfurt is a small city in the East German Bundesland Saxony-Anhalt with about 24 thousand inhabitants. Like many cities and villages in the area, it faces huge demographic problems: The population is shrinking rapidly, consists mostly of older people, unemployment is high, percentage of highly...Read more
Staßfurt is often termed "The cradle of Potash-Mining" (see for example a newspaper article here: https://www.volksstimme.de/kultur/an-der-wiege-des-kalibergbaus-382531) and this image is actively maintained by...Read more
There are two main environmental conflicts in Staßfurt that are frequently discussed and still remain unresolved to this day. Water pollution with Ammonia and Chloride of the river Bode and Air pollution with corrosive dust, especially around the Atzendorfer Straße. In both cases, government...Read more
Via reading the local newspaper Volksstimme ("People's voice", https://www.volksstimme.de/lokal/stassfurt) I had learned about the local NGO IG-Bode-Lachs e.V. and its struggle to increase biodiversity of the river Bode...Read more
