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Originally used to purify wastewater from Lauchhammer’s coking plant, the towers were renovated and are now open for tourists.

The Bio Towers were built in sets of four. Some of the towers sit menacingly by the road in Lauchhammer.

Germany’s monument preservation authorities believed that demolishing the bio-towers would be a loss to Lauchhammer’s identity and to the memory of the first lignite coking plant in the country. So instead, the towers were renovated.

The renovations took about two years. One of the towers was equipped with two building turrets to give visitors a special view of the towers and the former coking plant site.

These days the structures are used to educate people about the area’s industrial history. The towers are on the ‘ENERGIE Heritage Route of Lusatian Industrial Culture‘ which is a part of the ‘European Route of Industrial Heritage‘ (ERIH) tourism project.