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For more than half a century, this lime factory's four kilns produced 180 tons of lime per day, but today, the complex stands alone in a forest near Aachen, Germany.
Lime kiln
You can still find a monumental remnant of a nineteenth-century lime kiln complex along the Scheldt.
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