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Around 2550 people had to be re-settled in the newly built districts of Neu-Listernohl, Sondern-Hanemicke und
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On 1 August 1956, the Bigge Dam Law came into force. According to this, each municipality was obliged to extract 1.2 pfennigs from every consumer of water for every m of water they used – the so-called "Biggepfennig" – which went towards financing the construction of the Bigge Dam.
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