Police grille
Police bars (also known as Hamburger Reiter or Hamburger bars ) are metal bars that are used to temporarily cordon off places or to separate groups of people, for example during demonstrations .
structure
Police grids consist of a fence element to which a step plate is usually hinged on one side and further stabilizing supports on the other side. They can be connected to the neighboring grid elements using hooks and eyes. The main purposes are heavily attended events such as concerts, sporting events and demonstrations as well as property protection .
They are set up with the step plate facing the flow of visitors so that the grids are additionally stabilized by the weight of the people pushing against them. As a result, they are much more stable than the Mannesmann bars (also Mannheim bars or Monrovia bars) or site fences, which are also often used for barriers .
The dimensions and details of the grid elements vary depending on the manufacturer, the length of a single grid is usually between two and three meters. The most frequently used police grille shape is called the Hamburg grid .
Artwork April 13, 1981
The artist Olaf Metzel created the work April 13th, 1981 (also a monument to the riot ) in 1987 as part of the sculpture boulevard on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin . Police barriers, enlarged to a scale of 2: 1 and painted in red and white, were placed on Joachimsthaler Platz on the corner of Joachimsthaler Straße and Kurfürstendamm, next to the traffic pulpit opposite Café Kranzler , on a central square in West Berlin , the site of a violent demonstration on April 13, 1981, piled up into a meter-high sculpture. There was a shopping cart on top of it. The work was rated provocative in 1988. After it was removed from Joachimstaler Platz and stored for a few years, it was rebuilt in 2001 on Stralauer Allee next to the former egg cold store on Oberbaumbrücke in Berlin-Friedrichshain , which the Universal Music Group moved to shortly afterwards . Quotation from the Tagesspiegel article "750-year celebration of Berlin's systematic struggle in front of the Kranzler" by Werner van Bebber from June 30, 2007: The sculptor, who lives in Munich today, spoke about the history of plastic and the anger it caused written a book (Olaf Metzel: April 13, 1981). The fact that the lattice tower is now on the banks of the Spree is thanks to the private project developer who had the granary expanded, says Metzel. “It wouldn't have worked in public space”. He continues to say that he is pleased that his plant is in East Berlin. “Today you sit there and drink latte macchiato.” The people who sit there have their bikes attached to Metzel's plastic.
Web links
- Fire Brigade Munich: Event security: guidelines for fire brigades, security authorities and police as well as organizers and their security service providers (p. 142)
- Olaf Metzel: April 13, 1981
Individual evidence
- ↑ BERLINER Chronik March 18, 1987 Criticism of art on the Ku'damm and a controversial cabaret advertisement. , by Brigitte Grunert Der Tagesspiegel March 18, 2012
- ↑ Ulf Erdmann Ziegler: With force and anger. In: The time . September 21, 1990. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Petra Schellen: The finger in the wound. In: the daily newspaper . December 3, 2013, accessed November 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Carsten Siegel: April 13, 1981 by Olaf Metzel. In: Berlin Sidewalk. July 26, 2012, accessed November 3, 2017 .
- ↑ 750-year celebration of Berlin's systematic struggle in front of the Kranzler by Werner van Bebber Der Tagesspiegel June 30, 2007