Launch for marketing: After the power plant Ensdorf comes... what? Please no second Wolfspeed

The last buildings on the Ensdorfer Kraftwerksgebiet are blown up. Now it is time for something new - and as soon as possible, the SZ editor Nils Straßel finds.

300 kilos of explosives, accompanied by 40,000 liters of water, have finally flattened the former coal power plant Ensdorf. The blasting master gives insights into the process – and takes stock.

About 300 kilograms of explosives were needed, and the buildings in Saarland fell in seconds.