Buildering

A climber climbing a bridge

Buildering (also Urban Climbing , building climbing , facade climbing or bouldern Urban is called) a form of climbing and bouldering in urban areas on artificial structures and man-made objects and buildings.

Legal

In general, when it comes to building, especially on private property, one moves in the same problematic legal situation as with roofing because of the property owner's house rules .

• Damage to someone else's property, e.g. B. by attaching fixed fuses,
• climbing on listed buildings,
• the obstruction of passers-by,
• blocking the sidewalks and
• influencing road traffic through falls, material or moves

are factors that can cause problems with local or city government, property owners and the police. Builders and climbing at jump height on walls, bridges and similar objects are usually not affected.

Buildering

Buildering at the Wittelsbacherbrücke in Munich

In most cases, like bouldering, climbing is done without safety and rope. Only a crash pad , a kind of soft floor mat , is placed under the climber to protect them from injury. In large cities there is occasionally the opportunity to officially climb on old buildings, bunkers and bridges. Such "systems" are known above all in Berlin at bunkers and in Munich at the Eichenau climbing bridge. It is difficult to estimate the number of athletes involved in building. Many use building for training, and young people in particular appreciate this sport because you can usually build in the immediate vicinity and the sport is free of charge.

Climbing wall at the Haus des Meeres , one of Vienna's flak towers

In 2008, in which the 2nd World Building Championships also took place, the first building guide for the cities of Mainz and Wiesbaden was published . In addition to legal spots, climbing areas in the region are also described in the guide. It was last updated in 2017.

It is difficult to say where the center of the scene is at the moment. A few years ago Mainz and Wiesbaden were still considered centers. The Halle / Leipzig, Munich and Vienna regions are now also known for their large building scene.

In 2017 a building guide for Germany was published, which describes the basics of the sport, climbing and bouldering possibilities in 61 cities.

Events

The first world championships in building took place in Cologne in 2006 , the next in October 2008 in Essen . Christian Benk from Isny from Allgäu won both times .

In 2009, Italian builders founded the Boulder Street Association to give the emerging movement in Italy a formal structure and to act as an organizer and to support others in this regard. The Street Boulder Contest is now a large and very popular event that is not only supported by the community, but also co-financed along with other well-known outdoor companies.

The Urban waters cup has been taking place regularly in Vienna for a number of years , and many building fans also meet in summer to compete together at the city's spots.

The growing interest in sport building is evident not only from the increasing number of athletes but also from lectures on the topic, such as in the Frankfurt section of the German Alpine Club or in CaféKraft in Nuremberg.

Famous building climbers

• Harry Gardiner (1871-after 1923), the human fly climbed around 700 buildings from 1905
• George Willig (* 1949), climbed the World Trade Center in 1977
• Alain Robert (* 1962), French free climber

literature

• Deutsche Welle - Euromaxx, city climbing in Mainz .
• Agnes Fazekas: "Builders" trend sport: Munich's city climbers go steeply. on: spiegel.de , May 24, 2011.
• Tim Jacobs: Buildering guide Mainz Wiesbaden . GEBRO Verlag, Immenstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-938680-08-7 .
• Kathrin Wüst: City Report Berlin. In: climbing. February March 2008, pp. 60ff.
• Til Huber: Buildering in Mainz. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung .

See also

• Roofing
• Industrial climbing
• Lattice Climbing , climbing on lattice towers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of the bunker wall Humboldthain - DAV section Berlin
2. ↑ Climbing on Berlin bunkers - kletterwiki.de
3. ↑ Eichenau climbing bridge - buildering-muenchen.de
4. ^ History of the Eichenau climbing bridge. - myheimat.de
5. ^ Tim Jacobs: Buildering Guide Mainz-Wiesbaden. Gebroverlag, 2008
6. ↑ Climbing Guide | Bouldering and builders in Mainz Wiesbaden | enziano. Retrieved July 7, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Tim Jacobs: Building Spots - Climbing and Bouldering in the City: Buildering Basics / Climbing & Bouldering Guide Germany . 1st edition, 2017. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5449-7949-6 ( amazon.de [accessed July 7, 2017]).
8. ↑ Buildering WC 2006, Cologne ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - udini.com  
9. ↑ Buildering WC 2008, Ruhrpott ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - udini.com  
10. ^ Boulder Street Association. ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - treetboulder.com (English / Italian)  
11. ^ German Alpine Association eV (DAV): German Alpine Association (DAV) - News / Home - Multimedia lecture in Frankfurt: Buildering . ( alpenverein.de [accessed on July 7, 2017]).
12. ^ "Buildering" lecture in Café Kraft. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .