Herten sculpture trail
There are a variety of sculptural works of art in Herten . Under the motto Art on the Way , this sculpture path makes a contribution to art in public space .
Not only art lovers get their money's worth. Some of the objects are used by children as play equipment, such as the foal in front of the Hertner town hall. Other objects invite you to touch them directly or invite you to other sensual experiences, such as the "big humming stone" in the courtyard of the glass house.
Goose bow
by Wolfgang Lamché , Ennigerloh - Established 1997
Location: Ewaldstrasse - Alter Friedhof
A five meter high stainless steel arch and a row of stylized geese , also made of stainless steel - these are the elements of the goose arch on the “Cirkel-Bau”. The artist chose the geese because, as “ miners ' fattening animals”, they reflect a piece of local history. At its location, the work of art does two things: On the one hand, it represents a counterpoint to the rectangular Cirkel arcades, on the other hand, it acts as a gate to the adjacent cemetery area. The work, made of polished stainless steel, is completed by a bronze sculpture on the floor, here too a goose. The artist confronts both materials with the help of the same motif - thus creating a special challenge for the viewer.
Bramhügel brook
by Dr. Willi Balzer, Herten - Completion 1985
Location: Ewaldstrasse - Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse - Theodor-Heuss-Strasse
The Bramhügel brook arose from the need to add a lively design element to the compact development in this area. In doing so, the artist made use of the history of this place: The gorse-covered sand hill, named after its name "Bram" hill, and the Bram hill pond, which was still used for fishing in the 19th century, provided the design elements: hills and water. In earlier times the landscape fell from the Bramhügel (today roughly the “Cirkel complex”) to Herten- Süd and the Emscherbruch. There was a natural watercourse that flowed from the Paschenberg over the Bramhügel to today's Wieschenbeck / Wiesenstrasse and then later into the Emscher . Based on this, a hilly, paved landscape with a stream was created, supplemented by some arcades covered with climbing plants.
Reader
by Heinrich Brockmeier , Recklinghausen - Established 1984
Location: Place d'Arras - Pastoratsweg
In the middle of the city center, at the fountain of the city partnership, the "reader" invites you to pause and escape the hectic pace of everyday life for a moment. The bronze figure , which weighs around 300 kilograms, shows a man sitting on the edge of the fountain, absorbed in a book. A work of art that the artist created not only to look at, but also to touch: the “reader” has a special touch effect, through which those areas that were touched with hands retain their color; however, all other areas became darker over time.
Protective mantle Madonna
by Hilde Schürk-Frisch , Münster - Established 1978
Location: Marktplatz
The “Schutzmantelmadonna” tells of the needs of the people, but also of their childlike trust in the protection of the Blessed Mother Mary . Her location, the market square, does not seem to have been chosen by chance: here, in the midst of the human activity, the Madonna offers her protective embrace. The bronze figure shows the Madonna with the Jesus child in her arms; the cloak is wide open, numerous people as well as the rooster, dog and pig as symbols for all of God's creation , which is under the protection of the Blessed Mother, are gathered below. The child at the feet of the Madonna is an expression of a faithful trust, which is also reflected in a prayer line on the back of the statue.
Girl with pigeon
Anette Wittkamp-Fröhling, Lüdinghausen - Installed in 1990
Location: Antoniusplatz, in front of the Antoniuskirche
It is no coincidence that the girl depicted in the form of a bronze sculpture holds a dove in her hand near the Antonius Church : It is considered the miners' favorite animal and is reminiscent of a major chapter in Herten's industrial and economic history . The sculpture shows a child in a caring relationship with the animal - a symbol for the fact that both humans and animals are parts of a creation that humans have to take care of in a special way. The simple figure fits into the equally simple design of Antoniusplatz.
Saint Sebastianus
by Karl-Heinz Klein, Düsseldorf - Established 1978
Location: Antoniuskirche - Marktplatz
You have to go around the Church of St. Anthony to discover the statue of St. Sebastianus at the rear of its south wing, in which the sacristy is located . Together with St. Anthony , he was originally venerated as the patron saint against the plague . The St. Sebastianus Guild still keeps this memory alive today . The guild, established in 1620 after the great plague epidemics, committed itself to active charity .
communication
by Heinrich Brockmeier , Recklinghausen - Established 1986
Location: Ewaldstrasse - Vitusstrasse
Communication in the pedestrian zone: people meet and talk to each other and communicate. The life-size bronze sculpture in Ewaldstraße represents such an everyday situation . But the viewer also finds something unusual about it - the figures shown are naked (signs of their openness and affection?) And a child seems to be trying to "break out" of the group ( what does it want to say without words?). The work, popularly known as “The Naked”, challenges us to take a closer look at the many daily encounters in the mirror of art. “Communication” was also created by Heinrich Brockmeier, from whom we already got to know “Der Lesende”.
Fountain column
by Waldemar Vienna, Herten - Established 1979
Location: Ewaldstrasse - Antoniusstrasse
In the heart of the city, on the wreath slab of Ewaldstrasse, the “fountain column” was a meeting place for young and old. The sculpture, which is inviting to linger, was created by Waldemar Wien, who created his second work of art for his hometown with it. As with the “Vegetative Column” created ten years earlier, he also chose the material bronze in combination with water. In 1994 the original edging of the fountain with benches was replaced by a flattened wall about 40 centimeters high. If you want to take a seat near the fountain, you will still find appropriate seating.
St. Anthony
by Wilhelm Bolte , Münster - Installed in 1903
Location: Antoniusstraße
The St. Anthony is the patron saint of the largest church in the center Herten . The sandstone sculpture rises life-size on a pedestal equipped with plinths. There is a bronze information board on the base . St. Anthony (251 - 356) is considered both the founder of Christian monasticism (the monk's robe and the book refer to this part of his history) and as a patron saint against plague and cattle diseases (the symbol for this is the pig under the cowl). The statue also shows the Antonite Cross (a T-bar with a bell). This symbol of the Antonite Order , founded in 1059, symbolizes the self-imposed tasks - caring for the sick (the cross without a point as a support) as well as feeding the poor (the Antonite pigs hung with small bells were allowed to roam freely for fattening, their meat was given to the poor distributed).
Departure
by Leonard Wübbena , Wittmund - Established in 2000
Location: Herten-Forum - Kaiserstraße - Konrad-Adenauer-Straße
The latest sculpture in front of the Herten Forum in downtown Herten represents the recent history of this city: the seven-meter-high work, made from mining parts, is entitled "Aufbruch". The past and future of an entire region are expressed here in terms of design. If the material still comes from Herten's mining history, which spans over a hundred years, the upward dynamic of the sculpture and, of course, its name point to the great future task - the dawn of a new chapter in economic and city history.
Greyhound
by Franz Brinkmann, Recklinghausen - Established 1973
Location: Hermannstrasse
A work of art you can touch, even more: to (be) playing with, is located on Hermannstrasse. The artist has created a "wind chime" out of concrete and aluminum , it was placed between rotating concrete balls. A movable ball, this time made of aluminum, also forms the core of the greyhound itself. A motif was presented using different materials, the mobility of which challenges playful action.
Together
by Heinrich Brockmeier , Recklinghausen - Established in 1999
Location: Hermannstrasse - Jakobstrasse
After “Der Lesende” and “Kommunikation”, it is the artist's third work for the Herten Sculpture Trail and it is the most recent: “Together” - this broad title deliberately allows the viewer's associations and interpretations to run free. Because the 15-ton plastic - two stainless steel columns with four groups of 100 bronze figures in total - combines the dynamic with the static. People meet each other, but they stay next to each other, no joint action, no united striving is emerging. Nevertheless, the sculpture also stands for the attitude towards life in this city: "Together we are strong".
Big humming stone
by Hugo Kükelhaus - Established in 1994
Location: Glass house inner courtyard - Jakobstrasse
Hugo Kükelhaus calls his sculptures "worlds of experience for the development of the senses " . The “Great Humming Stone ” in the inner courtyard of the glass house also represents such a station of experience. The viewer is asked to feel the stone and even penetrate it. If you hold your head in the hollow of the "Big Humming Stone" and hum at the same time, you will feel the vibrations of your own body. In this way, Kükelhaus sensitizes people to perceive their environment and themselves with all their senses.
Herd of pigs
by Peter Lehmann, Großenkneten - Established in 1990
Location: Otto-Wels-Platz (Kurt-Schumacher-Straße - Hermannstraße)
With the herd of pigs on Otto-Wels-Platz, Herten has another piece of art that you can touch. The ten bronze sculptures (one boar , three sows, six piglets) are intended to appeal to children in particular and cast a spell over them - this is what the founder Elisabeth Tengelmann, née Schweisfurth, wanted. The pig herd is one of three works of art donated by members of the Schweisfurth family. The "vegetative column" and the "foal" are also part of it.
"Otto Wels" memorial plaque
By Heinrich Brockmeier , Recklinghausen - Installed September 16, 1983
Location: Otto-Wels-Platz (Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse - Hermannstrasse)
With Otto Wels (born in Berlin in 1873 , died in Paris in 1939 ), the city of Herten pays tribute to a particularly courageous politician : the socialist was a member of the Reichstag from 1912 to 1918 and from 1920 to 1933 . Since 1919 he was one of the chairmen of the SPD . After Hitler took over the government , Wels, as parliamentary group leader of the SPD , justified his party's rejection of the Enabling Act in the Reichstag on March 23, 1933 . He said the famous sentences: "No enabling law gives the power to destroy ideas that are eternal and indestructible!" And: "Freedom and life can be taken from us, but not honor!" His words are considered the last free words in the German Reichstag. All 94 SPD members present voted against the law (the KPD was already banned). The rest of the Reichstag voted for it. In August 1933 Otto Wels was stripped of his German citizenship and Wels went into French exile . Exactly 50 years after Wels speech in the Reichstag, on March 23, 1983, the Herten council decided to name the central square in front of the town hall “Otto-Wels-Platz”.
The memorial plaque that has been put up is a reconstruction of the original that was stolen in 2005 in connection with the conversion of the former indoor swimming pool into a shopping center.
Big thoroughbred foal
by Renée Sintenis , Graz - installed in 1957
Location: Kurt-Schumacher-Straße - in front of the main entrance to the town hall - on the way to the palace gardens
The "Big Thoroughbred foal " is a gift from the honorary citizen Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth to "his" city of Herten . The work, set up in 1957, is a sculpture created by the sculptor Renée Sintenis in 1940. Sintenis was known for her mostly small sculptures of young animals in bronze , which she knew how to depict in their characteristic movement. The “Great Thoroughbred Foal” is an original sculpture that was created only once by the artist.
After the foal "moved" several times due to the structural and design changes around the town hall, it should find its final location on the tree stairs in May 2006. But in July the bronze foal was cut from its foundation and stolen. Fortunately, five days after the theft, the foal ended up in the hands of the Herten police, but was broken up into three parts. On behalf of the city of Herten, the bronze sculpture was assembled true to the original and expertly by the Recklinghausen artist Heinrich Brockmeier. Since December 2006 the foal has had its place in public again. Based on the experience, the city decided not to leave the foal unattended in the future and to set it up directly at the main entrance to the town hall.
Musicians
by Joseph Krautwald , Rheine - installed in 1992
Location: Kurt-Schumacher-Straße - in front of the main entrance to the town hall - on the way to the palace gardens
In the four figures that have found a shady spot in the garden of the adult education center , two great arts are combined - visual arts and music. The bronze musicians showed the way to those hungry for education who, coming from the city center, wanted to visit the city library in their old domicile in the town hall annex. Today it can only be found by those who know of its existence.
The miners
by Uschi Klaas ,
location: Dorfanger-Herten-Bertlich
The bronze figures are a tribute to the mining era. The standing person eats bread and butter, the seated person chews tobacco.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Ruhr area . derwesten.de. April 26, 2012. Accessed October 31, 2019.