Elephant slide (Eisenach)

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The elephant sculpture on the playground in Eisenacher Wilhelm-Pieck-Straße
Sculpture "Elephant Slide" in Eisenach, August 2018

The elephant slide is made of concrete -made sculpture , on a playground of the city Eisenach in Thuringia is.

history

The concrete sculpture was created by the sculptors Johannes Peschel , Egmar Ponndorf and Vinzenz Wanitschke and placed by them in 1967 on a playground in Wilhelm-Pieck- Strasse in Eisenacher Thälmannviertel in the north of the city.

The sculpture in the shape of a stylized elephant with a trunk shaped as a slide also served as a play device for decades . Comparable sculptures were made from a prototype that was erected in Dresden in 1962 , from 1965 onwards by the “ Kunst am Bau ” production cooperative for several cities in the GDR and installed in Leipzig and Neubrandenburg , among others .

Since the sculpture no longer met the current safety requirements for playground equipment and had concrete damage after more than 50 years of standing, it was cordoned off with a construction fence in summer 2018 and its dismantling was announced. Among other things, an online petition turned against this . The city of Eisenach, as the owner, examined the possibility of renovation and commissioned a concrete expert who considered the sculpture to be capable of renovation. After a limited invitation to tender , the renovation began in June 2019; on July 31st, Mayor Uwe Möller released the slide again as a play device.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elephant slide can be renovated , eisenachonline.de, accessed on August 9, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Eisenach: Elephant slide should go , Thüringer Allgemeine / Eisenacher Allgemeine, July 6, 2018, accessed online on August 9, 2018
  3. ↑ Anke Brauns: Slide elephant will soon be moving to the Kulturpark. Nordkurier, May 21, 2015, accessed October 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Petition for the preservation of the elephant slide , accessed on August 9, 2018
  5. ↑ Elephant slide: Concrete can be renovated , focus.de, accessed on August 9, 2018
  6. ↑ Elephant slide can be obtained , eisenachonline.de, September 4, 2018
  7. ↑ Refurbishment of the elephant slide. In: Eisenach.de. Accessed January 31, 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Elephant Slide  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 23.5 ″  N , 10 ° 17 ′ 57.5 ″  E