Graz miniatures
The Graz miniatures are mostly made of bronze, three-dimensional miniature models of various sights in Graz .
Idea and project
The sculptures of the so-called Graz miniatures represent tactile models of various Graz sights. They show the Graz clock tower , the Graz Opera , the Graz Murinsel , the Kunsthaus Graz and the Graz City Hall .
The idea for setting up the Graz miniatures came from Kurt Hohensinner , a disabled pedagogue , former club chairman of the ÖVP in the Graz municipal council and since January 23, 2014, Graz city councilor for education , integration and sport , together with Alexander Ceh and Dietmar Ogris. In 2000, Hohensinner visited Disneyland in California with a group of disabled people as part of an internship in the USA . There Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck and their friends are made visible to blind people through small plastic dolls . The Disney sights were made available to the group of visually impaired people as wooden miniatures (tactile models) for understanding .
The Graz miniatures were created on Hohensinner's initiative for the visually impaired , blind and children as part of the Understanding Culture project and, with the exception of the town hall miniature, were realized by Christian Fuchs ( Organic Form Productions ). The town hall miniature comes from the Linz artist Günther Knoll. First of all, the Graz clock tower, in addition to an equally large shadow - a work of art for “Graz 2003” (when Graz was European Capital of Culture ) by Markus Wilfling - was also given the company of a “clock tower”.
Visually impaired and blind people can find their way around in a spacious building and get to know it just as well as people with healthy eyes; however, it is often difficult for them to imagine a building and its shape as a whole. The five detailed tactile models, on which people with visual impairments - but also all children - can better experience and grasp the respective building, are positioned in front of or in the depicted cultural buildings.
City councilor Hohensinner hopes that tactile models of the Graz country house and the Graz cathedral can also be realized in the future .
Murinsel miniature
The tactile model of the Murinsel miniature is currently not accessible because, according to the Murinsel coffee house operator, it was stolen on 9 January 2014 in the summer of 2013. A corresponding police report was filed, but so far without success.
Picture gallery
Graz clock tower miniature
Grazer Kunsthaus miniature with Braille information
Graz town hall miniature with information in Braille
Former location of the Graz Murinsel miniature, stolen in 2013
Others
Similar models are also available in Würzburg . A similar model can also be found next to Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral .
At the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz there is a bronze model of the fortress in the first courtyard of what was once the second largest German military installation. In Regensburg, on the banks of the Danube downstream, next to Regensburg's oldest restaurant, the "Wurstkuchl", a bronze model of the old town, is also freely accessible.
Furthermore, the Ulm city model for the blind and sighted made of bronze can be found on Münsterplatz in Ulm ; it shows each of the 503 buildings in the city center, including the synagogue under construction, true to scale.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d tactile models of Graz landmarks , page on www.bizeps.or.at , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d Town Hall miniature : Fifth tactile model unveiled , page on www.gbg.graz.at ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 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. , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Pictures of the Graz “clock tower miniature” on www.flickr.com , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Pictures of the Graz “Opera Miniature” on www.flickr.com , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Pictures of the Graz “Murinsel miniature” on www.flickr.com , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Pictures of the Graz “Kunsthaus-Miniatur” on www.flickr.com , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Pictures of the Graz “Rathaus-Miniatur” on www.flickr.com , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ^ Local council club Grazer ÖVP: New team with new club chairman . Kleine Zeitung , January 21, 2013, archived from the original on September 16, 2014 . .
- ↑ Page about Kurt Hohensinner at: oevplend.wordpress.com , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Kurt Hohensinner becomes City Councilor for Education , page on www.graz.at ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 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. , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ^ Kurt Hohensinner: New City Councilor for Education and Sport . Kleine Zeitung , January 23, 2014, archived from the original on April 7, 2014 . .
- ↑ The lowest common denominator . Kleine Zeitung , January 24, 2014, accessed on May 26, 2020 . .
- ^ Homepage from www.organic-forms.at , accessed on January 5, 2014.
- ↑ a b Grazer Sightseeing mit den hands , page on derstandard.at of February 13, 2003 , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Handover of the tactile model on the Münsterplatz ( memento of the original from January 10, 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. , Page on ulm.de, accessed on January 11, 2016.
