History of messaging
The history of communication is a mural on the wall of a former barracks in Ludwigsfelde . The work created by Volkhard Böhme was created in 1981 and shows in ten parts the historical development of news transmission from antiquity to that time. The picture is under monument protection .
location
The wall is located at Neckarstrasse 50 in the west of the city of Ludwigsfelde, about one and a half kilometers from the city center. It stands on the south side of the street, the mural adorned the outer side of the boundary wall. This is followed by the former barracks area, on which (as of April 2020) residential buildings are being built.
history
In the mid-1970s, Ludwigsfelde became a location for the National People's Army . The radio relay regiment 2 "Konrad Wolf" moved into the area on today's Neckarstrasse. Various accommodation, training and business rooms as well as storage rooms and a garage complex were built on the site. In 1981 the wall at the entrance to the barracks was designed by the Ludwigsfeld artist Volkhard Böhme. The result was a series of ten pictures that deal with the "history of communications" with a thematic reference to the radio relay regiment.
After German reunification, the area was used by the Bundeswehr until 1994. Until 2006, the site was managed by the municipal housing company. In 2009 it was decided to convert the site of the former barracks into a residential park. Most of the barracks were demolished, the wall with the pictures was preserved. In 2014, the owner of the site announced that a museum in Russia had offered him a six-figure sum for the work of art, but that he had declined the offer. At that time, the city of Ludwigsfelde expressed interest in erecting the wall with the pictures in a more central location in the village, but it remained unclear how the work was to be transported.
After the former barracks site had been sold to individual construction investors, there was renewed speculation at the end of 2018 about an imminent demolition. The previous owner had been assured by the mayor, who died in 2015, that he would endeavor to protect the plant as a historical monument, but this had not happened until then. Transport to another location was no longer an option because of the damage to the wall that had meanwhile been recognized.
At the beginning of 2019 the plant was placed under a preservation order
construction
A series of ten images was created on the barracks wall over a total length of 30 meters, which deal with the "history of communication" in a thematic relation to the radio relay regiment. From today's perspective, the presentation is politically neutral.
The ten pictures are executed using the sgraffito technique, alternating with a light and dark background with transition lines between the pictures. In a historical sequence from right to left, they represent various forms of communication (running messenger in antiquity, drummers, riders, waving signals, stagecoach, railroad with mail car, teleprinter, transmitter mast, radio operator, satellite technology)
In addition to the mural, the enclosure itself and a porter's house are also listed. A four-meter-long roll with the draft of the picture is in the Museum of the City of Ludwigsfelde.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Official Journal for the City of Ludwigsfelde, November 17, 2009.
- ↑ a b Relief on the “History of Communication” should remain permanent. Artwork in Ludwigsfelde is not for sale. : in: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , October 30, 2014, online .
- ↑ a b The future of a unique work of art uncertain . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , December 28, 2018, online .
- ↑ a b 50-meter relief now under monument protection . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , February 6, 2019, online .
- ↑ a b c Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 '30.9 " N , 13 ° 13' 50.2" E