A village occupied for at least 1,000 years now stands totally abandoned after its residents were evacuated. In 2013, the decision was taken to move its 500 inhabitants about two miles up the road to a new town of the same name. The plans were to create a new giant open cast coal mine in the original village. But while all of the village’s inhabitants had been rehoused by 2015, the German village of Morschenich-Alt (or Old Morschenich) still stands. The plans for a coal mine have since been