The LMBV manages, rehabilitates, and designs the post-mining landscapes of lignite mining in Lusatia and Central Germany and is also responsible for the rehabilitation of potash, salt, and ore mining from the former GDR. The company is wholly owned by the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by the Federal Ministry of Finance. The rehabilitation ensures safety after mining, thereby creating the basis for the subsequent use of former mining regions, particularly for the establishment of industry and commerce, agriculture and forestry, nature conservation, and tourism.
Over the more than 30 years of mining rehabilitation in Eastern Germany, the focus has shifted from the movement of large masses with open-pit mining machinery and classic recultivation work to securing extensive internal dump areas, rehabilitating the water balance, and long-term tasks such as managing salt loads in the former potash mining regions. The work of the LMBV is subject to constant change, with tasks becoming increasingly detailed, which ties up extensive capacities, for example, for the goal of ending mining supervision.
To make mining rehabilitation even more sustainable and efficient in the future, the LMBV supports numerous pilot and demonstration projects to test innovative methods. Results from science and research are thus transferred into rehabilitation practice. The rehabilitation work ensures sustainable development in the mining regions in the context of structural change. The well-developed tourist regions of the Lusatian and Leipzig lake districts testify to this transformation based on the rehabilitation achievements.