It is used on heavy coal block trains between the opencast mines at Profen and the Schkopau power plant.
The six km-long Saale-Elster viaduct crosses some meadows in the Saale and the Weiße Elster valleys between Schkopau and Halle that are part of a protected area under the European Union’s Habitats Directive.
The actual history of the city began in 1958 with a conference of the Central Committee of the SED on "Chemistry Program of the GDR", on which the settlement of labor in the vicinity of chemical sites Buna - Schkopau and Leuna was decided.
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Karl Witte (born July 1, 1800 in Lochau (now part of Schkopau); died March 6, 1883 in Halle) was a German jurist and scholar of Dante Alighieri.
The second largest producer of synthetic rubber (17% of Axis supply), the plant was 240 miles closer to Allied bomber bases than the larger synthetic rubber plant at Schkopau.
At the end of the 1950s the advertising slogan "Plastic and rubber from Schkopau" (Plaste und Elaste aus Schkopau) was introduced, in order to promote the spectrum of products of the Buna Chemical Works.
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Buna is not a town, but was the name of the first synthetic rubber which was produced in the Buna factory at Schkopau.
Since 31 December 2009, it is part of the municipality Schkopau.
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