Via Carolina Monument
The Via Carolina monument is a 6.56 m high bronze statue at the rest area "Stocker Holz" on the federal highway 6 in the area of the community Schmidgaden in the district of Schwandorf in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria . The sculpture was created by the artist Harald Bäumler . Chancellor Angela Merkel unveiled the plant during the opening of the last section of the A 6 federal motorway between Amberg- Ost and the Oberpfälzer Wald junction on September 10, 2008.
description
The base plate with a diameter of 5.55 m protrudes over the surrounding lawn by about 10 cm. It consists of small stone paving stones with an edge length of 5 to 8 cm, which are laid in 36 concentric circles. In the middle there is a flat domed keystone with a diameter of about 21 cm. The floor slab is encompassed by twelve segment-arched flat stone slabs about 56 cm wide. The elements of the floor slab are made of Flossenbürger granite .
On the base plate lie two about 96 cm high, curved, convexly arched sandstone blocks that are elongated between two arch lines and sink in height. One of these sandstone blocks is made of red sandstone, as it is often built in Nuremberg , one made of yellowish sandstone, which is very often used as a building material in Prague .
The 5.60 m high bronze sculpture rises on the two sandstone blocks. These are two identical spherical structures with exiting, winding upwards, connected tails that form a loop at the top.
literature
- Harald Bäumler: Monument Via Carolina . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-02164-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The A 6 sculpture. Mittelbayerischer Verlag, July 24, 2008, accessed on February 25, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Harald Bäumler: Monument Via Carolina . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-02164-8 , p. 17th ff .
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '39.4 " N , 12 ° 5' 10.4" E