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Maschinenfabrik Kyffhäuserhütte Artern, Artern/Unstrut, Thuringia, Germany. Former maker of separators, purifiers and similiar equipment for agricultural and naval use. Torn down except for the most representative structure shown here and some secondary buildings. The logotype is comprised of the three letters KHA (K left, H right, A center) for Kyffhäuserhütte Artern.

With both major employers shut down after the German unification, the city with a population of 6,300 ranked so high in unemployment statistics that in 2003, it was picked by the Endemol TV company for a Big Brother-like unemployment reality TV show. It's name: Artern - Stadt der Träume, Artern - The City of Dreams. Today the city is betting on more respectable means of business development again, and there are 500 new jobs in the city's new industrial area already - some of them at a new sheet metal pressing plant for the automotive industry.