Monuments and art in public space in Herford

In the East Westphalian city of Herford in North Rhine-Westphalia there are numerous monuments and works of art in public space , but also boundary stones, memorial stones, busts and reliefs. Most of them are listed below. Except for the Wittekind monument, which is also called the Wittekind fountain, no fountains are included here. They are recorded in the article Well in Herford .

Monuments

City history monument

The city history or imperial abbey monument of the imperial abbey city of Herford , created by Wolfgang Knorr and located at the market hall since 1998, is intended to represent the singular relationship between abbey and city, the condominium (since 1256).

14 basalt columns stand for the 14 noble canons who stand at the top of the abbey . In the direction of the cathedral and the town hall , the abbess carries the mayor of the city on her lap. She has an open book in her hand that shows the plan of the abbey. The mayor holds the town hall, the Jakobi- and the Johanniskirche in his hands . At the foot of the sculpture, a snake and other worms are winding as a symbol of evil that had to be overcome by Waltger when the monastery was founded by Christianity . The abbess and the mayor are juxtaposed with the insignia of the Pope and the Emperor. The monastery and the city were directly subordinate to them only.

Linnenbauer monument

Widukind monument

Linnenbauer monument

Gregor von Bochmann the Younger created the Linnenbauer memorial, inaugurated in 1909. It shows the last Herford hand weaver Fritken Oberdiek (1844–1919), who had brought his bales of linen to the wholesaler in the city, sold it and now counts the money received with a mischievous smile. It stands on Linnenbauerplatz, which was named after the Linnenbauer. Until the piping of the Bowerre in the mid-1970s, the Mittelstädter Bridge was located there, connecting the old town with the new town. The Linnenbauer or linen weaver is comparable to the Kiepenkerl .

Wittekind monument

The only oversized Wittekind monument in Germany on Wilhelmsplatz is a reminder of the Saxon Duke Wittekind (Widukind). The fountain describes the miracle of the spring through which the half-dying Wittekind became a Christian and submitted to his superior enemy, the Frankish king Charlemagne . The original monument was created in 1899 by the sculptor Heinrich Wefing . It was melted down for armament purposes in 1942, but the base was retained. In 1959, the Wittekind monument was recreated from old pictures by the sculptor Walter Kruse .

Abbey stele

In 1990, the abbey stele created by the artist Ulrich Henn was erected between the minster church and the cantor house. The 3.30 meter high work is reminiscent of the noble Reichsstift Herford and the charitable work of the canonies. The stele is a stylized tree with seven intertwined roots rising up to form an open crown. It shows the six works of mercy listed in the Gospel of Matthew: feeding the hungry, watering the thirsty, clad the naked, sheltering strangers, caring for the sick and visiting prisoners. An additional scene refers to a further task to which the women's monastery has dedicated itself for over a millennium: conveying and disseminating Christian teaching. The top of the stele opens into the sky like a goblet to ask God for help, as if with open hands.

Monument base of the Great Elector

Fürstenau monument

On September 26, 1902, a bronze statue of the Great Elector , created by the sculptor Heinrich Wefing , was unveiled on the station square . The line-up was suggested by the Herford Warrior Association and was supported by Kaiser Wilhelm II .

This memorial was controversial among the population, however, as the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg annexed the then imperial city in 1652 and incorporated it into the county of Ravensberg . Even the negotiations with Anton Fürstenau, who was only given a monument in 1989, could not prevent the loss of independence. As a result, many merchants and craftsmen moved away and thus contributed to the economic decline of the city.

In 1942 the statue was melted down. The broken parts of the base were erected in the Aawiesenpark in 2002. They illustrate the broken relationship between Herford and Brandenburg-Prussia . On the pedestal was the following text: “To the great Elector, the citizens of Herford. September 26, 1652-26. September 1902. Herford 250 years of Kurbrandenburg . "

Fürstenau monument

The Fürstenau monument has been located on the Fürstenauplatz in front of the Jakobikirche since 1989. It commemorates Anton Fürstenau , the protector of Herford during the Thirty Years War and the defender of imperial freedom against Brandenburg and the Great Elector. It was designed by Wolfgang Knorr.

Anton Fürstenau holds his right hand repellent against the Bielefeld Sparrenburg and thus against the Count of Ravensburg , who was close to the Brandenburgers. With a lot of negotiating skills and money, Fürstenau was able to prevent the capture and devastation of the city of Herford during the Thirty Years' War. With his left hand he points to a document that guarantees the city of Herford freedom from the Reich. The head, divided several times, symbolizes the stages of his life, from the young dynamic man to the old, worn one.

Little Hermann

At the beginning of the 20th century, a small replica of the Hermann monument was installed on the gable of the house at Bäckerstraße 16 . In the 1990s, the house in the pedestrian zone was demolished and the almost one meter tall gold-colored statue was seized. After the house was rebuilt, it was given its place on a wall of the shoe shop, which is on the ground floor.

Memorials and war memorials

Memorial at the Bergertor

In the Weddigenuferpark at Bergertor there has been a memorial since 1968 with the inscription The victims of the wars urge peace . Since then, Herford's commemorative events have been held here on Memorial Day and on other commemorative days.

Memorial at Deichtorwall

Memorial at the Diebrock cemetery

On Deichtorwall, not far from the Daniel Pöppelmann House , there has been a memorial since 1962 with the inscription: In memory of the victims of the Hitler dictatorship 1933–1945, the living as a warning .

Memorial at the Diebrock cemetery

On the Diebrocker Friedhof there is a memorial consisting of five crosses arranged one above the other, which stand on a stone with the inscription 1914–1918, 1939–1945 .

War memorial on the Homberg, in front of it an inscription from the landscape art project

Part of the Berlin Wall

Since November 2009, a three meter high and one meter wide section of the Berlin Wall has stood on Berliner Strasse in the area where the Holland road joins . 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall , a Berlin entrepreneur who has built several residential complexes with more than 200 apartments in Herford has given the city the four-tonne section of the wall that used to stand near the Brandenburg Gate . A sign reads: On October 3, 1990, German reunification took place in Berlin. For the first time since 1933 all Germans could live in freedom and democracy. Protecting them is our job.

War memorial on Diebrocker Strasse in Eickum

War memorial in the old cemetery

The war memorial for those who fell in the German-Danish War in 1864, the Prussian War against Austria in 1866 and the German-French War in 1870/71 was created by Heinrich Wefing from 1876 to 1879 and unveiled on October 18, 1879 on the Alter Markt. On the pedestal, a valkyrie carries a fallen warrior towards Valhalla . The inscription reads: The sons of the city of Herford and the office of Herford-Hiddenhausen who fell for king and fatherland . It also lists the names of those killed in the three wars. Since January 21, 1964, the war memorial has stood in the older part of the Old Cemetery , where no more burials have taken place since 1874.

War memorial on the Homberg

A larger war memorial was inaugurated in 1922 on the Homberg in Falkendiek . Commemorative plaques are embedded on all four sides of the rectangular monument made of natural stones. One of them bears the inscription 1914 1918 Our fallen heroes in honor of the memory of the Falkendiek community . On this and the other plaques there is another inscription and the names of those who died in the community of Falkendiek in the First World War. In 2008, the Falkendieker sculptor Anke Stratmann-Horn, on the initiative of the Herford IPPNW group, added peace-political slogans to reflect on tree trunks.

War memorial in Eickum

There is a war memorial at Diebrocker Straße 431 in Eickum . In addition to the list of fallen and missing persons of the Eickum community, it bears the inscription To honor the victims of the two world wars. To the living as a warning .

Other memorials, war memorials, memorial stones and plaques

Two memorial stones each stand on a green area on the corner of Vlothoer Straße / Stadtholzstraße and on a green area at the Schützenhof city park . Another memorial stone is located in front of the old building of the Königin-Mathilde-Gymnasium .

In most cases, almost every district has a war memorial or a memorial in the cemetery to commemorate the fallen of the former community.

There are also memorial plaques on or in the churches in the city center. They remember the victims from the respective parishes who fell in the wars between 1813 and 1918.

Further Herford commemorative plaques that were previously in other locations are in the possession of the municipal museum .

Displaced persons monuments

Honor niche at the town hall

Memory of Landsberg an der Warthe

Next to the right staircase to the Herford town hall there has been an honorary niche since 1957, which reminds of the town of Landsberg an der Warthe. The text in the niche reads: Landsberg Warthe 1257 1957 unforgettable home .

A memorial stone about one meter high has stood at the Bergertor since 1976. On the front is the inscription: Landsberg an der Warthe . Below is the coat of arms of Landsberg an der Warthe. On the back the inscription reads: To Landsberg an der Warthe via Berlin 519 km .

The Silesian town of Landsberg an der Warthe has belonged to Poland since 1945 and has been called Gorzów Wielkopolski since 1946 . On the occasion of Landsberg's 700th anniversary in 1957, the city and district of Herford took on the sponsorship of the Landsberg corporations. Two years later the city made rooms available for a home parlor. Since 2000, the rooms, which have meanwhile been converted into a museum, have been in the house of the adult education center.

Memorial plaque in the courtyard of St. John the Baptist

In 1996 a memorial plaque was erected in the inner courtyard of the Church of St. Johannes Baptist to commemorate the refugees from the eastern German regions who were accepted into the city of Herford after 50 years . The inscription reads:

"In memory of. After 1945, Silesians , Pomerania , East and West Prussia , Danzig , East Brandenburg and Sudeten Germans were expelled from their centuries-old homeland. Here in Herford in the years 1946-1948, especially Silesians from the County of Glatz found shelter and help. We would like to thank the parish of St. Johannes Baptist and all institutions in the city and district of Herford that helped to alleviate hardship for their acceptance during the most difficult times. Home group and central office Grafschaft Glatz / Schlesien e. V. on the 50th anniversary of the expulsion. 1996. "

Landmarks

Boundary stone on Salzufler Strasse between Herford and Bad Salzuflen

Landmarks between the monastery and the free imperial city of Herford

Borriesstein

Monument to Albrecht von Roon

Landmarks between the monastery and the free imperial city of Herford

Two boundary stones were set up and a white line was drawn across the street on the border between the Herford monastery, which was directly under the empire, and the free imperial city of Herford at the confluence of the Mausefalle with Elisabethstrasse. The old Herford bar coat of arms is on one stone and the imperial eagle on the other .

Border stone between Prussia and Lippe

On Salzufler Strasse, on the city limits between Herford and Bad Salzuflen, there is a stone that marks the border between the Prussian Herford and the Principality of Lippe . Because Lippe did not join the German Customs Union when it was founded in 1834, the customs officers stationed here had to try to stop smuggling between the two countries. Only after the Principality of Lippe had joined the barriers were opened in 1841 and smuggling came to an end.

Memorial stones

Jahnstein

The bronze picture of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn was created by Heinrich Wefing at the suggestion of the four Herford gymnastics clubs Turngemeinde , Jahn , Stiftberger Turnerbund and Turnerbund and inaugurated on September 1, 1907 on Stiftberger Straße, which was renamed Jahnstraße in this context. In 1942 it was melted down and in October 1955 it was re-erected on a sandstone plinth around 50 meters below where it is today.

Jahn memorial stone
Original Jahnstein 1907–1942

Borriesstein

In Borriesstraße there is a memorial stone dedicated to the various Herford district administrators from 1832 to 1933 with the name of Borries. The inscription is: Borries-Stein, dedicated by the parishes of the Herford district in 1900 .

Roonstein

In the Laar district of Herford , at the intersection of Lübbecker Strasse / Laarer Strasse / Vilsendorfer Strasse, there is a memorial to the Prussian general and Minister of War Albrecht von Roon . It was created by the sculptor Heinrich Wefing and erected in 1913 by the Laar-Hollinde Warrior Association in memory of his visit on July 2, 1863 in Herford and Laar. After 1968 it was moved to its current location.

Lebuinstein

Memorial stone on the Lutheran oak

Kranefuß memorial stone

There is a Kranefuß memorial stone on the Pöppelmannwall immediately behind the Mathilden Hospital . Karl Kranefuß was the chairman of the Herford Beautification Association from 1902 to 1914. V. At the instigation of the Beautification Association, the memorial stone was inaugurated in May 1918. The complex consisted of a boulder on which a bronze plaque was attached. During the World War, stone and slab disappeared without a trace. The original plaque, like many other metal parts, was melted down. In the mid-1970s, the members of the beautification association, together with the citizens' initiative to preserve the characteristic cityscape, suggested that the lost plaque be recovered. The new, 1.30 m high gneiss was procured and processed by a stonemason. Since 1976 it has been back with the new metal plaque directly behind the Mathilden Hospital on Pöppelmann-Wall. The inscription on the plaque reads: Karl Kranefuß 1835–1914 ▪ Chairman of the Herford Beautification Association. V. from 1902 to 1914 ▪ Herford owes him the Pöppelmann Wall .

Karl Kranefuß, born on February 24, 1835 in Lübbecke , founded the Kranefuß & Mier cigar factory on Mönchstrasse with a partner on December 9, 1863 , which his son Hermann took over after his death. It expired in 1928. Among other things, Kranefuß campaigned for the construction of ramparts around the city center.

Unit stone

On June 17, 1998, the Herford entrepreneur Heinrich Wemhöner erected a memorial stone for the day of German reunification, October 3, 1990 near the Herford Bismarck Tower . The large boulder shows the outlines of the two German states that were reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Lebuinstein

The inscription on a large boulder on the Hilligenböke street in the Schwarzenmoor district has been a reminder of the missionary Lebuin since 2002 . The saint is said to have hidden himself in this place in a book that God had opened for him according to an old tradition in 772 on his flight from the Marklo assembly. In the Middle Ages, the location of this holy beech tree (Hilligenböke) is said to have been a popular pilgrimage site with a chapel. Today's beech was planted in memory of the event in 1934.

Lutherstein on the Luthereiche

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Reformation , a Luther oak was planted in front of the main entrance to St. John's Church in 1917 . It is a red oak from North America . The memorial stone in front of it bears the inscription Luthereiche 1917 .

Busts

Bust of Elisabeth of the Palatinate

Opposite the history hotel on Elisabethstraße is a bust of Elisabeth von Herford (also Elisabeth von der Pfalz), created by the artist Wolfgang Knorr , who was abbess of the Herford abbey from 1667 to 1680 . Her house is still today at 33 Street Holland. Her final resting place is in front of the high altar in Herford Minster .

Schiller bust

At the corner of Schillerstraße and Wilhelmsplatz there is a bust of Schiller that was erected on May 9, 1905 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his death. It is a cast of a model by Johann Heinrich Dannecker or Theodor Wagner (sculptor) , which stands on a sandstone plinth. The bust originally stood on the edge of Wilhelmsplatz within a small complex. At the beginning of the 1940s it was dismantled as a war metal donation and brought to Hamburg, where it was discovered in a junkyard in 1951. In 1956 it was re-erected near its original location. It was later relocated to its current location.

Elisabeth of the Palatinate
Schiller bust

Reliefs

City model

Commemorative plaque commemorating Jewish life in Herford

City relief

A bronze model of the walled imperial city in the middle of the 17th century has been standing on the Münsterkirchplatz near the old town's market fountain since 2002. It was designed by Matthias Polster in the 1960s by the then Herford museum director Dr. Rainer Pape and the sculptor Karl Sylla created a wooden model.

Bronze reliefs in places of Jewish life

In 2008, bronze reliefs designed by students from the Wilhelm Normann Vocational College were installed at 13 locations of Jewish life. The memorial plaques were set into the ground in front of the respective buildings.

Stumbling blocks

As in many other cities, Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks in various places in Herford . The brass plaques on the sidewalk remind of the victims of the Nazi era who lived in the respective houses.

Reliefs at the history hotel

In 1999, in the middle Kurienhaus on Elisabethstrasse, the former Free Court, the Hotel zur Fürstabtei was opened as the only historical hotel in Germany. Among other things, it is furnished with paintings of the Herford abbesses, stucco work and monument models of Herford's history. In the passage from the street to the courtyard, seven bronze reliefs by the craftsman and plasterer Matthias Polster from the city's history have been installed since September 2000. These are representations of urban buildings and historical situations from the Middle Ages to modern times, which can no longer be found in today's Herford cityscape. The cityscape according to Matthäus Merian from the 17th century is also shown in relief.

The building of the history hotel was erected almost 400 years ago for the administration of the Herford abbey.

Sign at the history hotel
Gate passage in the history hotel with the relief panels on the side
Shield to the relief panels
Princely abbey around 1460
Monastery complex around 1600
City fortifications at Bergertor around 1640
Old town market around 1650
City view after Merian from the 17th century
Friedrichs-Gymnasium around 1870

Compass roses

In Gehrenberg , two oversized compass roses are embedded in the pavement of the pedestrian zone. At the confluence of the Brüderstraße , the compass rose shows the cardinal points and the direction in which the cities with which Herford has partnerships or friendships lie. The names of the cities of the Westphalian Hanseatic League are shown on the compass rose at the confluence of Elisabethstrasse and the street “Am Gange”.

Art in public space

Marta-Vietel

Works of art in the area of the Marta Museum

Paolo Chiasera: Tupacproject

La Palla

In the entrance area of the Marta stands a statue created by Paolo Chiasera , which shows the US rapper Tupac Shakur , on a column . The sculpture, which was created between 2003 and 2005, is called "Tupacproject".

To the right of the entrance to the museum is the sculpture “The Philosopher” by Markus Lüpertz . On the opposite bank of the Aa there is a 2.50 meter high sculpture by the Dutch artist Nick Hullegie (* 1970) from 2003 with the title “Grow up”, in which a white swimming pool ladder is transformed into a tree.

In 2009 a helicopter was set up on a transformer station next to the museum with a truck crane. It is an old Russian helicopter that was restored by the artist Michael Sailstorfer and converted to an electric rotor drive. He called the art installation "High Visitor".

A work by the Dutch artist Anne Lange has been hanging on the back of the neighboring depot since 2013. It is the nine meter long and 30 centimeter high illuminated lettering “The night gives birth to the day from their perspective”. The artist is referring to a Tacitus quote.

On the occasion of the museum's tenth anniversary, the Marta Collection received a work of art from the Wemhöner Foundation , which was set up in 2015 on the southern front corner of the building. These are two nine-meter-high double-T beams with a fluorescent tube attached to the upper end. The sculpture called "the Herford oak" was created by the Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis .

La Palla and Metallband in Goebenstrasse

In connection with the construction of the Marta Museum, Goebenstrasse was rebuilt and artistically designed. Since 2004 there has been a roundabout at the Schillerstraße / Goebenstraße intersection with “La Palla” in the middle, a stainless steel ball with a diameter of 350 centimeters created by Luciano Fabro . On the 153-meter-long median of Goebenstrasse from Luisenstrasse around La Palla and back to Luisenstrasse, Luciano Fabro modeled an excerpt from Rainer Maria Rilke's poem The Ball from 1908 on a metal band with 95 centimeter letters.

Radewig, Steintor and Deichtor

Installation at the stone gate

In January 2018, an installation made of black coated aluminum was attached to a wall of the stone gate bridge. It shows a silhouette of the former city wall with the stone gate and the original church tower of the Jakobikirche . Thanks to the rear LED lighting, it catches the eye of pedestrians and cyclists in the train station underpass, especially in the dark. The silhouette-like installation was designed by Herford city guide and historian Matthias Polster for the city center association.

Stone gate underpass

In October 2018, the redesign of the Steintor underpass was completed. The previously unsightly and inadequately lit pedestrian and cyclist passage was designed by the artist Malik Heilmann with brightly colored curved lines and surfaces in strong colors.

Standing traffic (car wreck)

In the summer of 1994, a scrap sculpture made of a compressed car wreck was erected on a traffic island at the stone gate in front of the Go-Parc disco. An old Volvo sedan was compressed to 60 × 60 centimeters using a press and hammer and lengthened to a height of 4.80 meters. The Herford artist and university professor Jürgen Heckmanns called his stele, which is still controversial today, “standing traffic”. It stands at one of the busiest intersections in Herford, where there is actually regular stationary traffic. The "monument" against car madness and car waste was promoted as art in public space by the Herford recycling exchange.

Columns and sculptures at the Daniel-Pöppelmann-Haus

Wolf Gloßner: Gothic gate at the Daniel-Pöppelmann-Haus

Pillar at the entrance to the Daniel-Pöppelmann-Haus

At the entrance to the Daniel-Pöppelmann-Haus is a pillar of the court arbor of the Old Town Hall, which was demolished in 1878. Another column is located in the basement of the museum. A total of four pillars of the court arbor have been preserved. One column was set up in the old cemetery on Hermannstrasse and the fourth is in the garden at Schillerstrasse 7, where Mayor Louis Quentin once lived, during whose tenure the town hall was demolished. Two further pillars stand in the garden between the old building and the new building.

In the front garden of the Daniel-Pöppelmann-Haus is a modern sculpture by Wolf Gloßner, which was modeled on a Gothic archway. It is therefore called the "Gothic Gate".

Also on the lawn of the house is a two-part work by the sculptor Wilfried Hagebölling called “Untitled”. The two elements take up a staircase motif, which architecturally stands for the connection of different levels. The artist relates positive and negative forms to one another. Both parts are made of different materials, in their shape referring to each other, but not identical. The positive form is an architectural structure made of concrete that rises above the ground, while a steel negative form is embedded in the ground. Another work by Wilfried Hagebölling can be found inside the Daniel Pöppelmann House.

Wall painting at the Gänsemarkt

On the street Im Janup near the Gänsemarkt, the artist Malik Heilmann created a colored mural on a house in 2015, on which a woman and a man are each shown with a raised hand.

Kiosk 24

The art exhibition window kiosk 24

At the corner of Radewiger Strasse and Löhrstrasse there is a walk-in showcase where artists can temporarily exhibit their works of art. It has five sides with lengths between 2.45 meters and 4.20 meters. Three sides are glazed and there is a door on another side. The exhibition space was made available to young artists by Jan Hoet in 2003 in connection with the construction of the MARTa museum as a place for artistic experiments. It was named "Chapel". When the museum ended the project at the end of 2006 for cost reasons, the space was taken over by the recycling exchange, which runs a second-hand shop in the same building . Since then, art and design has been presented in changing four-week exhibitions in Kiosk 24.

Witch stairs

In 2014, the work of art created by the artist Susanne Albrecht with the name Hexentreppe was installed on the Aa between the Radewiger weir and the Radewiger bridge, where the former witches' colk was located. The work is intended to commemorate the water test of the so-called witches who were persecuted and killed in Herford in the 16th and 17th centuries .

Works of art on Bielefelder Strasse

In the area of Bielefelder Straße 3 there are three modern works of art by the artist Susanne Tunn with the titles "Situation of a Group" from 1988 and "Warte Stein (Stone)" and "Warte Stein (Steel)" from 1990.

Susanne Tunn: Situation of a group
Susanne Tunn: Waiting Stone (1)
Susanne Tunn: Waiting Stone (2)

Neustädter Feldmark

Five gates / five places

Safety cones at the Bergertor

Sculpture wall jumper at Lübbertor

The art project Five Gates / Five Places was initiated by the Marta director at the time, Jan Hoet , in which the five historic city gates are to be made visible again with contemporary works of art.

As the first part of the art project, two orange-colored pylons named Safety Cones by the US installation artist Dennis Oppenheim were unveiled on October 30, 2010 on two traffic islands in the extensive intersection area at Bergertor . The pylons are each 5.50 meters high and are illuminated from the inside.

On December 14, 2017, the sculpture Melilla Mauerspringer by the Spanish artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo was installed at Lübbertor as the second part of the project . A bronze figure sits on a ten-meter-high lamp post that looks past the city center into the distance or dreams of a safe life. Castillo addresses the refugee situation at the EU's external borders. Especially in the Spanish city of Melilla , which lies on the North African coast, refugees from Africa have been climbing over the meter-high wire fences and walls to get to Europe since 2008. As Wall Jumper also people were called who climbed a dare from West to East Berlin on the Berlin Wall.

Agency for work with sculpture by Hans Günther Prager

Artwork on the Green-Gold House

Sculpture in front of the employment agency

In front of the employment agency on Hansastraße is a sculpture that was created by Heinz-Günter Prager in 1988 . It is called "in the triangle 5/88" and consists of a square steel plate and a ring.

Artwork on the Green-Gold House

A modern work of art by Gottfried Honegger with the name “Monoform 16” is located near the house of the Grün-Gold-Tanzclub on Bruchstrasse and the corner of Werrestrasse . It was removed in connection with the demolition of the building of the former Landeszentralbank branch in mid-2016. It is not known whether it will be erected again after the new houses planned there have been built.

Peace tower

An installation by the Herford artist Draffoh Rheinmann has been in the Werreg Gardens since February 13, 2017. It is a granite stone that bears the vertical inscription Peace Tower on the front left side . To the right of it is the peace sign and below it the words Pax optima rerum (Peace is the best of things) and Peace Tower . The artist planted five small maple trees around the stone, which should grow together to form a tower within ten to 20 years. The number “five” stands for the five continents, February 13th was chosen for the planting because in the night of February 13th to 14th, 1945 the largest wave of bombing raids on Dresden began. The work of art is called "Herford Peace Tower".

Bürgerplatz at the weir, on the right the sculpture

Stumbling block on Linnenbauerplatz

Old town

Stone of contention

As part of the planned Hartz4 legislating the Social Alliance has in the form of guerrilla art the stumbling block on the Linne Bauer space marked "unemployment - Alternatives think" filed. After initial protests from the city, it was decided to leave the stone on the square.

Sculpture on the Bürgerplatz at the weir

A curved stainless steel pipe about three meters high stands on the meadow of the Bürgerplatz at the weir. There is a small concrete ball on the top. The Bürgerplatz am Wehr got its name in 2012. It is located between the Aa am Radewiger Wehr and the wall “Unter den Linden”.

Neustadt

I have enough

Since October 2017, the installation “I have enough” by Alexandra Ranner has been on the Petersilienstraße across from the Frühherrenhaus on the grounds of the Johanniskirche . It's a small house with a whip lantern next to it. A video film can be seen through a window in the building in which a disembodied head drifting in a river sings the Bach cantata “ I have enough ”. The video film can be viewed daily from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. in winter.

The installation was bought by the Herford entrepreneur Heiner Wemhöner and initially stood on his property on Lockhauser Straße. The work from 2005 was previously on view in Berlin.

Entire city

Graffiti on power boxes

Since 2015, gray power boxes and control cabinets have been decorated with colored motifs in Radewig . With a donation from Westfalen Weser Energie , six housings were initially sprayed with motifs from the world of birds and plants on the initiative of the “Rat und Tat” association. The work was carried out by the Gelsenkirchen graffiti artist Dan Geffert (artist name: Sponk) on two Saturdays together with asylum seekers, girls with a migrant background and inmates of the Herford prison .

On the occasion of the ten-year anniversary of the MARTa museum, additional power boxes were sprayed with graffiti by students and adults in August 2015 .

In April 2018, the artist Sponk sprayed the transformer house at the eastern entrance from Bahnhofplatz into the Steintor underpass with a showman motif. It shows a nostalgic carousel with a white horse on the front. The word “Herford” extends over three sides and fireworks can be seen in the upper area of the mostly blue power box. The picture should remind of the tradition of Herford as a showman town.

Painting from photo of Heiko and Henny Ploeger by the artist Sponk

In May 2018, Sponk sprayed another power box in front of the Martinsklause on Martinsgang with a historical motif. It is about the trade unionist and anti-fascist Heiko Ploeger , who is pictured there with his wife. A photograph from the 1930s served as a template, which was first projected onto the electrical box with a projector and then filled in with color. Heiko Ploeger was arrested on January 18, 1944 in his Herford apartment and executed by the National Socialists in September 1944.

In April 2019, Sponk sprayed an Internet distribution box on Kiebitzstrasse with a lapwing.

Creation of a mural during the Hanseatic Days in Herford 2013

In June 2018, the street art artist Victor Ash designed all four sides of a transformer building with a protruding roof in the Schützenpark on the corner of Schützenstraße / Steinweg / Pagenmarkt. The work of art, which is kept in black and white, is supposed to represent a struck comet with a crater landscape and clouds. The idea for the design came about after the bushes around the transformer house had been cut off and a building sprayed with wild graffiti appeared. Victor Ash became known in Germany for his work Astronaut Cosmonaut , which he painted in 2007 on a house in Berlin-Kreuzberg . Marta director Roland Nachtigäller put Ash in touch .

Graffiti on the Tupac column

Sponk also sprayed the Tupac column in front of the Marta in April 2019. On the 4.30 meter high base with a circumference of four meters, he sprayed 688 red bricks and the abstract blue lettering “Marta”.

Wall painting by Hansestreetartworks

During the Hanseatic Days , which took place in Herford in 2013, several wall paintings were created as part of the Hansestreetartworks through the initiative of the Marta Museum in the center of Herford.

Sculptures in schools

Sculpture in front of the Ravensberger Gymnasium

Sculptures at the Ravensberger Gymnasium

In connection with the construction of the Ravensberger Gymnasium in 1960, a sculpture was placed in the entrance area on Werrestrasse. In front of a seated student is a teacher who is bent over a book from which he is obviously reading something. The two figures are shown stylized. The sculpture was made by the artist Günter Laurin, who was an art teacher at the Realschule Uhlandstraße from 1959 to 1960, today's Otto Hahn School . The title could be “Student and Teacher” or “Teaching and Learning”. Originally, the sculpture did not stand in front of the building, but within the school grounds.

At the edge of the school yard there has been a foot made of Bentheim sandstone about two meters long since July 2002. The sculpture with the name "Megalitho" was designed by the Bad Salzuflen stone sculptor Helmut Schön based on a design by a student.

Sculpture at the Ernst Barlach School

As part of the redesign of the school yard and the outdoor area of the Ernst-Barlach-Realschule on Graf-Kanitz-Straße, a sculpture was placed in the entrance area in December 2014. It is about two vertically set up processed tree trunks, on each of which there is a stainless steel ball. Halfway up, the two trunks are connected by a curved stainless steel rod. The sculpture shows in stylized form two people shaking hands.

The work was designed by the textile teacher Swetlana Schmidt. The implementation was carried out by Kerstin Wehrspann in cooperation with the wood carving artist Werner Korzen, the garden and landscape construction company André Kunze and the metal construction company Düsediekerbäumer.

Works of art at the Mindener Strasse primary school

In the school yard of the primary school in Mindener Straße there is a fiberglass model of a VW Polo made by Herford artist Oliver Stübbe , which is covered with artificial turf . Stübbe also created a small amphitheater and a snake sculpture there.

Steam engine at the vocational school center

A steam engine with a flywheel generator was set up in the school yard of the Wilhelm Normann Vocational College in the Aawiesen. Origin and technical data are unknown, the generator is from Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft Berlin.

Dismantled monuments and works of art

In mid-2016, the artwork on the Grün-Gold-Haus was removed in connection with the demolition of the building of the former Landeszentralbank branch. It is not known whether it will be erected again after the new houses planned there have been built.

In mid-2018, the Schiller bust on Schillerstraße was dismantled due to the renovation of Wilhelmsplatz.

Web links

Commons : Monuments in Herford - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Abbey Stele

^ Postcard with the monument to the Great Elector

↑ Mathias Polster: Our Hermannsdenkmal is in Bäckerstraße In: Der Remensnider, magazine of the Herford History Association, issue 1/2 2014, page 12