Seddiner See boulder garden
The Seddiner See erratic boulder garden is a 25,000 m² open-air exhibition of erratic boulders . It is located in the Kähnsdorf district , which belongs to the Seddiner See community in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the Nuthe-Nieplitz nature reserve . In addition to erratic boulders, treasures from the Ice Age, and Nordic arches , contemporary works by twelve artists such as Marina Schreiber , Karl Menzen and Volker Bartsch are shown in an open-air sculpture exhibition. The sponsor is the Foundlingsgarten Seddiner See e. V.
background
The formation of the region around today's Potsdam-Mittelmark district originated around 20,000 years ago during a cold-age advance of the inland ice and the associated meltwater . At that time, the entire area was completely covered with ice during the most recent, the Vistula Ice Age - for example, the Zauche plateau was formed . After it had melted, a ground moraine surface with till clay emerged . A large number of erratic boulders accumulated during the agricultural use of the region through asparagus cultivation .
Concept of the garden
The boulder garden shows characteristic shrub and tree species in a regional arrangement, both from the late ice age, the warm period and the post-warm period. The entire area is enclosed by a blackberry hedge. In the northwest, next to a small information booth with a permanent exhibition, is the entrance to the site. Here, the vegetation zone of the post-ice age was reproduced, which was supplemented by an exhibition of treated natural stones and a tapping area for processing the boulders. In the middle area, the visitor arrives over a wooden walkway to a simulated dead lake and a terminal moraine . Plants that belong to the warm period predominate here. Behind the terminal moraine there is a drumlin , a Wallberg (Os) and a ground moraine lake. In this area of the warm period there are examples of sediment deposits as well as granite and gneiss .
In 2006 the exhibition was supplemented by sculptures by contemporary artists.
Sculpture counter-sentence by Karl Menzen
Foundling "Moment" by Victor Bisquolm
Web links
- Website of the Seddiner See boulder garden , accessed on June 2, 2012.
- See the Seddiner See boulder garden flyer on the boulder garden website (PDF, 9,635 kB), accessed on June 2, 2012.
- Detailed description of the garden on the website of the municipality of Seddiner See, accessed on June 2, 2012.
- Kähnsdorf, Findlingsgarten open-air museum on the website of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, accessed on June 2, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Exhibition flyer for the opening of the sculpture garden on the Ruhnke Gallery's website, (PDF, 458 kB), accessed on June 2, 2012.
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '2.4 " N , 13 ° 2' 16.5" E