Holstein stairs
The Holstein staircase is an open staircase built in 1900 in Wuppertal , Elberfeld district .
description
With 112 steps (according to another source 114 steps) it leads up the Engelnberg and connects the tall-layered street Gathe with the Holsteiner street in nine sections separated by paragraphs . The Holsteiner street , and therefore the stairs, was named after the former Duchy of Holstein . The staircase is one of several staircases that open up the center of the Ostersbaum residential area on Engelnberg.
Art project - Scala
The stairs were part of the art project "7 stairs", which was designed by the Elisabeth-Montag-Stiftung in cooperation with the city of Wuppertal and the Regionale 2006 and with the support of the Ministry of Building and Transport in autumn 2006.
In this project, the Düsseldorf artist Horst Gläsker converted the Holstein staircase into an installation with his wife. He interpreted the nine sections of the stairs as nine sections of life and painted each of the 112 steps in a different color ( acrylic paint ) to represent the path of life. Words are written on the front side that can only be read when climbing the mountain. The words contain simple terms and are sorted according to their meaning such as "friendship" and "hostility", "love", "anger", "delusion" and "envy", "loyalty" and "understanding". At the same time, the terms correspond to the colored background and are themselves written in the complementary color. Gläsker calls the work "Scala" ("Scala" of colors ... "Scala" of feelings).
The colorful staircase has become the object of numerous compilations of special architectural photographs and has become known as a result. Actually only intended as a temporary work of art, the color has now been renewed through the initiative of the residents and should continue to be part of the cityscape.
See also
Web links
- Art project - Scala at www.montag-stiftungen.com
- http://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/series/wuppertal-1
- Horst Gläsker and the great feelings Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from August 25, 2006
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cadastre and geodata City of Wuppertal: Stufig: 100 stairs in Wuppertal (CD-ROM), 2006, ISBN 3-9807422-6-1 .
- ↑ The name of the street was December 17, 1889
- ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
- ↑ Staircase staging public stairs in the district , accessed February 2009
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '53.8 " N , 7 ° 8' 52.3" E