This 660-ton church was moved by trucks from its home village Heuersdorf to Borna, 12 kilometers down the road. Before this, the 14.5-meter-high and 8.9-meter-wide building along with its 19.6-meter-high chapel were prepared by engineers who plugged walls’ cracks with concrete and wrapped the construction in 4 steel corsets. Then the church was lifted and huge, multi-wheeled transport bed was slid in beneath it.
It was the wish of the village’s 59 inhabitants to move this church, because their village had to disappear, swallowed up by a coal mine, as Heuersdorf sat upon 52 million tons of brown coal. This move costed MIBRAG Company that supplied power plants with coal about $4.3 million. It had to re-engineer roads, divert small rivers and take down traffic line to allow the trucks move smoothly.
It was the wish of the village’s 59 inhabitants to move this church, because their village had to disappear, swallowed up by a coal mine, as Heuersdorf sat upon 52 million tons of brown coal. This move costed MIBRAG Company that supplied power plants with coal about $4.3 million. It had to re-engineer roads, divert small rivers and take down traffic line to allow the trucks move smoothly.
