During World War 2 coal was in limited supply on Bornholm and a local effort to extract more coal locally was started near Hasle. This man made mountain (1940 - 1945) during Germany occupied Denmark is a mixture of coal with a lot of sand, gravel, clay and coal dust and that had to be sorted and collected. These waste products were transported to the coastline by tippers and emptied over the edge.
This had consequences for the landscape, and it was changed into a place with deep cracks and a desert where no plants or trees grow even over 60 years. The site now resembles a moonscape or Lunar Landscape.
Kultippen was named after the tippers that were used to bring and dump the coal at the coast.
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