Editing Cottbus (section)

==Economy==

===Transportation===
[[File:Cottbus Hbf - Chóśebuz głdw, Station Sign.jpeg|thumb|Bilingual sign at [[Cottbus Hauptbahnhof|Cottbus main station]] – German: Cottbus Hauptbahnhof (Hbf), Lower Sorbian: Chóśebuz głowne dwórnišćo (gł.dw.)]]
Cottbus is served by [[Cottbus Hauptbahnhof]] main railway station.

Two airports serve the city: [[Cottbus-Drewitz Airport]] (approximately 25 kilometres (16&nbsp;mi) north-east of Cottbus), and [[Cottbus-Neuhausen Airport]] (approximately 10&nbsp;km (6.2 miles) south-east of Cottbus).

[[Berlin Brandenburg Airport]] can be reached in one hour from Cottbus.

Local public transport is served by trams and buses operated by [[Cottbusverkehr]] GmbH and [[DB Regio]] Bus Ost GmbH, both of which are members of the [[Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg]] (VBB).

=== Power generation ===
There are several lignite-fired [[power station]]s in the area around Cottbus (Lausitz) fed through local [[open pit mining]]. The biggest stations are "[[Schwarze Pumpe power station|Schwarze Pumpe]]" (1600 MW), "[[Boxberg Power Station|Boxberg]]" (1900 MW) and "[[Jänschwalde Power Station|Jänschwalde]]" (3000 MW). Some of the open-pit mines have already been shut down with the former {{Ill|Cottbus-Nord opencast mine|de|Tagebau Cottbus Nord}} being converted into an artificial lake with {{cvt|19|km2}} surface area called [[Cottbuser Ostsee]] (Cottbus eastern lake).{{Update inline|date=October 2024}}