Limmat Culture Trail

Conversation about the river on the Gwaggelibrugg

The Limmat Culture Trail (formerly: Baden – Wettingen – Neuenhof Culture Trail ) is a cultural hiking trail that has existed since 1991 along both banks of the Limmat . On the way from the wooden bridge over the Limmat between Wettingen and Neuenhof to the wooden bridge which connects the old town of Baden with the right bank of the Limmat, 24 works of art can be seen, mainly sculptures .

Emergence

For the 700th birthday of the Swiss Confederation , the municipalities of Baden, Wettingen and Neuenhof organized an exhibition of open-air sculptures. These sculptures were supposed to be part of a regional festival for CH91 , which was then not organized due to a lack of funding. The canton of Aargau (underfunded by the Federal Office of Culture and Lottery Fund ) and the three municipalities involved as organizers were able to secure a cost estimate of 420,000 francs . The organizer acquired 18 of the exhibits and received further support from private sponsors. The exhibition was later expanded to include three objects, so that it now includes 21 works of art.

The artists

At the opening and during the exhibition of the Kulturweg from August 17, 1991 to May 2, 1992, the works of these artists were on display, as well as four works by the Wettinger artist Eduard Spörri ('Stehende mit Tuch', 'Mädchentorso', 'Schreitende mit Apfel' and 'Retrospectives'), which were to be understood as an homage to the then 90-year-old:

Marc Covo, Basel River Crossing II
Theodor Huser, Wettingen 10 good resolutions
Mariann Grunder, Rubigen Reflex
Jürg Altherr, Zurich Sculpture in the river
Gillian White , Leibstadt Glade
Kurt Sigrist , Sarnen Two hermitages
Hans Anliker , Schinznach Conversation about the river
Lucie Schenker, St. Gallen 3 × shape
Beat Zoderer , Wettingen room
Ursula Hirschi , Zurich Installation without title
Heiner Richner, Rohr Steinring
Anton Egloff , Lucerne wayside shrine growth line
Spallo Kolb, Diepoldsau / Vienna Kubus (pending)
Gianfredo Camesi , Paris / Ticino Ciel-Terre-Ciel
Monika Kaminska, Carouge GE -without title-
Walter Haldemann, Mellingen Triangle stones
Hans Thomann, St. Gallen Rowing Bundle
Toni Calzaferri, St. Margrethen Weglager
Werner Witschi, Bolligen BE Moiré object
Markus Zeller, Wittenwil TG Iron sculpture without a title

In the now 25-year history of the Kulturweg there have been some changes and adjustments.

The way

After the Wettingen-Neuenhof wooden bridge , the culture trail begins on the left bank of the Limmat. There you can see the space cube by Peter Hächler (1922–1999). Originally, on the way to the Webermühle, the room of Beat Zoderer (* 1955) followed next, but it can currently be found next to the lion barn on the monastery peninsula. If you continue on the left bank of the Limmat, you get to the first part of 3x Form by Lucie Schenker (* 1943). On August 31, 2012, a work of art by Daniel Robert Hunziker was inaugurated on the retaining wall of the motorway , which bears the name If I don't want, I stand still . The subsequent conversation about the river is installed on both sides of the Limmat at the Gwaggelibrugg . The next work of art, also inaugurated on August 31, 2012 and installed on the jetty at Webermühle, is Shatt-Al-Arab by Thomas Galler . The sculpture on the water by Roman Signer (* 1938) can be found below the footbridge . In May 2010, the work of art was initially removed at the instigation of the owner, the Bechtler Foundation. On August 23, 2011, a replica of the original work of art was put up again in the same place. The second part of Lucie Schenker's 3x form is on the footbridge .

On the left bank of the Limmat, four sculptures can be seen as far as the Auseg: two hermitages by Kurt Sigrist (* 1943), clearing by Gillian White (* 1939), Reflex by Marianne Grunder (* 1926) and 10 good resolutions by Theodor Huser (* 1950 ). The moiré object by Werner Witschi (1906–1999) can be seen on the Auseg , shortly afterwards a sculpture by Markus Zeller (* 1961). The next work can only be found on the old wooden bridge at the Landvogteischloss Baden , the river observatory by Vincenzo Baviera (* 1945). On the right bank of the Limmat, the culture trail then leads back towards Wettingen. There, the former can be found near the slaughterhouse between the railway bridge and the railway station Wettingen the away camp by Toni Calzaferri (1947-1999), the rowing bundles of Hans Thomann (* 1957) and the triangle stones from Walter Haldemann (* 1943).

A further six sculptures can be found, like the room already mentioned , on the monastery peninsula. To the right and left of Alberich-Zwyssigstrasse are works of art by Monika Kaminska (* 1953) and Gianfredo Camesi (* 1940), the latter being called Ciel-Terre-Ciel . The path then leads in the direction of the Limmat to the Grosse Weib by Rudolf Blättler (* 1941) and along the river, past the wayside shrine growth line by Anton Egloff (* 1933) and the stone ring by Heiner Richner (* 1944) to the last work of art, that of Ursula Hirsch (* 1952) was designed. Between the latter two, there has been Anton Egloff's Espace Parole since 2011 . The third part of Lucie Schenker's 3x Form forms the end of the cultural path at the wooden bridge between Wettingen and Neuenhof .

The path partially runs parallel to the first stage of the Limmat-Wasserschloss industrial culture trail .