Loerrach Sculpture Path

Franz Bernhard : Lörracher seated

The Lörracher sculpture is at 23 stations with fountains and sculptures by leading sculpture trail through the city of Lörrach .

In 1986 extensive measures began to change the inner city. A busy main street was closed for private traffic in favor of a pedestrian zone . With the redesign, the city pursued the goal of developing Lörrach into a culturally attractive place in the border triangle . The Lörrach Sculpture Path was created, with works by artists from the region, but also by internationally known artists. The route begins at the Lörrach castle courtyard in the city center with a truncated pyramid by Bruce Nauman . It leads as a circular route past the three-country museum and north past the Lörrach town hall and back to the center of the market square.

Sculptures and fountains

The fountains and sculptures are listed below in the order of the circular route as proposed by the city of Lörrach for inspection.

Bruce Nauman , Truncated Pyramid Room

Bruce Nauman , Truncated Pyramid Room, (draft 1982 / installation 1998): The pyramid by the American artist in the courtyard is a matt black, 7.5 meter high truncated pyramid that can be walked on. This sculpture is Naumann's first work exhibited in Europe; it is illuminated in the evening with a bright yellowish light.
Rudolf Scheurer , Sonnengesichter, (2003): In front of the Dreiländermuseum there are three faces cast from aluminum by the artist from Lörrach. They stand opposite the sculpture, Figuration, (1962) made from Jura marble, which was also made by Scheurer.
Beatrix Sassen , Licht im Kopf, (2002): A 3.2 meter high, cast aluminum sculpture on Meeraner Platz. It shows the soft profile of a face, which, depending on the incidence of light, creates the spatial impression that it would turn outwards.
Ralf Johannes Kratz, The city's search for the best: The factory in Adlergäßchen was unveiled on May 25, 2002 as part of the city's 900th anniversary.
Konrad Winzer , Existential Not, (1996): Located between the town church and the parsonage, the figure of the Lörrach artist crouching on the floor and leaning forward symbolizes the suffering of Jewish families under National Socialism. The location was deliberately chosen opposite the city library , the building of the former button department store, which belonged to a Jewish family.
Urs Bargetzi , Kronenbrunnen, (1827): The Swiss artist's fountain is located on the southern edge of the pedestrian zone (corner of Basler Strasse / Herrenstrasse). The name is reminiscent of the location of the former Krone inn.
Lasse Brander, tendency rising, (1997): The sculpture by the Swedish artist in front of the Sparkasse branch on the Old Market Square piles up colorless, transparent panes of glass on a granite plinth, which wind several meters upwards in a slight twisting movement, releasing plays of color and light.
Franz Häring, Brunnenanlage am Alten Markt, (1995): It is located in the alley "Am Alten Markt" which branches off to the east of the Old Market Square, in which the Rewe Center (formerly Migros) is also located. A strip of green serpentine is embedded on the floor , which lights up together with the fountain in the evening.
Urs Bargetzi, Marktbrunnen, (1838): Another fountain Bargetzi made of light Jurassic limestone stands on the old market square. It is a replica of a fountain on the Münsterberg in Basel.
Ulrich Rückriem , Granit Rosa Porrino, (1996): The mighty cube-shaped sculpture stands in the middle of the intersection of the Old Market Square. The natural stone has deliberately holes, cracks and gaps.

Ulrich Rückriem , Granite Rosa Porriño
Urs Bargetzi, Hirschenbrunnen, (1827): Bargetzi's third fountain is at the intersection of Turmstrasse / Tumringer Strasse in front of the Karstadt department store . It shows Lörrach's coat of arms in the trough. A classical column rises behind the trough. The name is reminiscent of the former Hirschen inn.

Wilhelm Gerstel , Hebeldenkmal, (1910): In the Hebelpark there is a larger-than-life standing monument of the poet Johann Peter Hebel . Gerstel's design is typical of naturalism .

Karl-Henning Seemann , The Heiner and the Brassenheimer Müller, (1980–82): The pair of fountain figures is on the station square. It depicts a fat miller and a thin rider (Heiner) galloping away. The representation goes back to a calendar story by Johann Peter Hebel .

Giancarlo Sangregorio , Triade, 1976: The abstract stone sculpture on the square in front of the Loerrach town hall consists of interlocking black-green serpentine and red Swedish granite. Not far from it stands: Jörg Bollin, Lebensquell - Fountain Sculpture, (1974). A fruit-shaped stone from which water gushes.

Franz Bernhard , Lörracher Sitzende, (1992): The figure several meters tall on a round lawn on the underpass road is reminiscent of a gracefully seated woman. The metal surface of the plastic was left unsealed and uncoated and is illuminated in the evening.

Max Laeuger , ceramic relief, (1902): At the Bonifaziuskirche , the art nouveau work shows Jesus crucified with Mary and John.

Franz Häring, Wolkenwaage, (1997): On Senigalliaplatz, Häring created the fountain sculpture out of stone, steel and Plexiglas. In a water basin, similar to the hull of a ship, there are eight fountains as sails. A pendulous water scoop pours water into the basin twice a minute, which is supposed to symbolize the water cycle. A square azure-blue surface made of Plexiglas with the motif of a cloudy sky gives the fountain sculpture its name.

Nigel Hall , Lörrach rising: The sculpture by the English sculptor stands on the west side of the Lörrach district office. Hall belongs to constructivism .

Bernd Goering, November 9th, (1976): Also in front of the district office, the sculpture commemorates the three important historical dates of November 9th, 1918, 1938 and 1989, all of which are associated with a turning point in the history of Germany. In the concrete sculpture, two upright standing pillars are flanked by two diagonally crossing pillars. In this way, the Roman numerals IX and XI (9 and 11) can be read from both sides.

Stephan Balkenhol , Große Säulenfigur, (1996–97): A four-meter-high male figure made of red Douglas fir stands on Senser-Platz. The consciously inconspicuous and average figure represents the bourgeois contemporaries.

Bernd Goering , Interrupted Circulation of Nature, (1991): South of Senser-Platz in Tumringer Straße, the fountain with an interrupted steel ring symbolizes the disruptive human intervention in nature.

Commemorative plaque with seven-armed chandelier, (1976): In Synagogengasse between Teichstrasse and Neuem Markt, it is a reminder of the former synagogue in Lörrach . Heavily devastated in the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, it had to be broken off a year later.

Michael Fischer, Lebensbaum, (1981): A tree sculpture with a pair of lovers in the treetop protrudes from a fountain on the Neuer Marktplatz.