Sculpture path

Sculpture trails (including art hiking trails ) are walking or hiking trails on which there are numerous sculptures specially designed for this location . As an artistic concept, sculpture paths are close to Land Art . When creating sculpture paths, an attempt is made to bring works of art and landscape into harmony in order to increase aesthetic enjoyment.

In recent years, numerous sculpture trails have been created, especially in German-speaking countries. In addition to aesthetic aspects, there are often economic and tourism interests of the respective municipalities. In contrast to the sculpture garden , however, no entrance fee is required and they are usually not affiliated with any institution.

The sculptures are often designed jointly by the artists during a sculpture symposium .

Sculpture trails in Germany

Baden-Württemberg

The Besigheim Sculpture Trail in Besigheim was laid out in 2003 for the 850th anniversary of Besigheim. Since 2011 it has comprised more than twenty works.

The Bietigheim-Bissingen sculpture was started in the early 1980s. A collection of more than 35 contemporary sculptures and sculptures, including by internationally renowned artists, was created in public places and in parks.

The Fellbach Reflection Trail was founded in 1999. So far it comprises 7 of 12 planned sculptures. Themes and quotes from literature, religion and philosophy are assigned to them.

The Wein-Panorama-Weg in Heilbronn has been transformed into a sculpture path through the permanent installation of numerous sculptures.

The Jerg Ratgeb sculpture trail was opened in Herrenberg in 2012 . 25 plants are to be installed by May 2015.

The Kaiserstuhl-Hohentengen sculpture trail is a cross-border project that connects the municipalities of Kaiserstuhl AG , Weiach and Glattfelden (Switzerland) and Hohentengen on the Upper Rhine (Germany) on a circular trail on the Upper Rhine . There are ten sculptures along the way.

The Kirchheimer Kunstweg in Kirchheim unter Teck has been a collection of contemporary works by German and international artists in the city center and a suburb since 2004.

The Maulbronn sculpture trail is a footpath in the Maulbronn floodplain of the Salzach in the Enzkreis . It leads to the former Cistercian monastery of Maulbronn . Since 2011, sculptures by nationally known artists have been installed successively.

The Lörrach Sculpture Trail in Lörrach was laid out between 1986 and 1991 as a tour of the city center. It leads to more than twenty works by German and international artists.

Since 1994, the Mannheim Sculpture Mile has comprised a collection of more than 60 modern and current works that are displayed in the city center.

The Pfinztaler Sculpture Path has been open since 2001. 23 artists exhibit on the way. The sculpture path in Kleinsteinbach not only brings art into the village, but also brings people closer to nature in the middle of the village. Organized tours take place at regular intervals.

The Kunstweg am Reichenbach is a sculpture path near Gernsbach in the northern Black Forest . In a landscape protection area, it extends over 3.2 km between Hilpertsau, Weisenbach and Reichental. More than 25 sculptures and Land Art works have been installed since 2006.

Sculpture Trail Rielasingen-Worblingen : 10 artists from Germany, France and Italy show sculptures along the Radolfzeller Aach on the subject of “Borders and Connections”.

Sculpture Tour Schorndorf - 43 sculptures in public space by Timm Ulrichs , Erich Hauser , Eckhart Dietz , Robert Schad u. a. Artists.

The Schwäbisch Gmünd sculpture trail comprises 19 works of art in the historic city center.

Paths to art in Schwäbisch Gmünd - Straßdorf - with works by Eckhart Dietz , Fritz Nuss , Jakob Wilhelm Fehrle , Max Seiz and others. a.

The Ulm University Art Trail was established in 1989/90 on the university campus Oberer Eselsberg. It includes over 60 sculptures, including by internationally renowned artists.

Sculpture path in the vineyards in Weinstadt - Strümpfelbach - with 43 sculptures made of bronze and stone by Karl Ulrich Nuss and his father, Fritz Nuss .

Sculpture avenue "Couples" at Naturfreundehaus Strümpfelbach, initiated by Karl Ulrich Nuss - with 10 bronze sculptures.

Besigheim Sculpture Trail
Klaus H. Hartmann ( Pink Flamingo , 1989) at the Ulm University Art Trail
Adolf Bidlingmaier ( Age , 1939) on Paths to Art

Bavaria

Sculptures on the Franconian Street of Sculptures

The Fränkische Strasse der Skulpturen is a circular route around the municipality of Litzendorf (near Bamberg) with 20 sculptures by artists from Germany and other European countries. In 1994 the sculptor and graphic artist Ad Freundorfer started the first sculptor symposium. Since then, sculpture symposia have taken place at irregular intervals.

The art and reflection path is a 3.3 km long sculpture path in the Ellertal with a total of 18 works.

Path of Reflection in Bad Kissingen (2 km; 12 stations)

The Amberg Sculpture Trail is around 3.5 km long and includes 26 works by 23 artists.

Berlin

Human Landscape Berlin is an art project installed in 1987 in Berlin-Kreuzberg . It is a sculpture path that leads from the Schlesisches Tor to the May-Ayim-Ufer and contains seven sculptural works of art. The project was created at a sculptor symposium.
Stones without Borders has been an ongoing politically motivated sculpture project since 2001. The founders are the sculptors Rudolf J. Kaltenbach and Silvia Fohrer. In Berlin, the largest section can be seen with 120 medium and large-format sculptures on the surfaces of the Hobrechtsfelde to Barnim sewer field landscape, an approximately 21 km continuous route. Another location is Berlin-Mitte, Matthäikirchplatz, with 5 large-format sculptures. The route connects in the German network with the Bad Belzig, Teltow, Brück and Bernau locations. It has been part of the Road of Peace since 2012.

Brandenburg

The Hoher Fläming art hiking trail was opened in summer 2007 and runs for 17 km from Bad Belzig to Wiesenburg / Mark

Hesse

Sculptures on the Ars Natura art hiking trail near Felsberg (Hesse)

The Giessener Kunstweg since 1982, Justus Liebig University campus in Giessen . 14 sculptures in public space by Stephan Balkenhol , Per Kirkeby , Gerhard Marcks , Ernst Hermanns , Michael Croissant , Claus Bury , Karl Prantl , Hans Steinbrenner and Ulrich Rückriem .

Lower Saxony

On the circular route Moving Stones near Brelingen in the Hanover region , ten sculptures provide insights into the Ice Age formation of the Brelinger Mountain. The "Moving Stones" project links the classic sculpture trail with a geological adventure trail.

The Damme sculpture trail , which is located in the center of the city, currently consists of 44 sculptures at 37 locations.

Goldenstedt Sculpture Mile : In the area of the center of Goldenstedt there are twelve sculptures (as of June 2014), most of which were made by Uwe Oswald .

The Hanover Sculpture Mile is a 1,500 m long street in Hanover with eight sculptures, mostly made of metal. Most of the very different works are located on the green central island of a four-lane, busy road.

The Hasetal Art Route runs along the Hase-Ems-Tour long-distance cycle path from Bersenbrück to Meppen . In each of the seven cities and towns through which the hare flows in this section, there is at least one sculpture placed near the river.

Hude Sculpture Bank : Approx. 40 publicly accessible works by the sculptor Wolf E. Schultz are exhibited on a 1.4 hectare meadow by the Huder Bach . The facility has existed since 1992.

Art on the dike sculpture path, a two-part sculpture path along the cycle path around the Jade Bay in Lower Saxony .

Lamspringe sculpture path as a cycle path on the former Kreiensen-Hildesheim branch line between Lamspringe and Bad Gandersheim over a length of 12 km. This sculpture path is the southern section of the 47 km long cycle path to art , which begins in Sarstedt at the confluence of the Innerste with the Leine, leads via Hildesheim , Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg and Lamspringe and ends in Bad Gandersheim.

Kunstwege is a network of sculpture routes between the German Nordhorn ( district of Grafschaft Bentheim ) and the Dutch city of Zwolle ( province of Overijssel ), which was built in the early 1980s and mainly extends along the Vechte . More than 60 works of art are connected by a network of paths around 140 km in length.

There are a total of ten steel sculptures on the Salzgitter-Bad sculpture trail.

The “See Sicht” sculpture trail runs along the east bank of the Dümmer from the holiday home area Eickhöpen ( Lembruch municipality ) to Hüde . In its northern section it is partly on the same route as the sculpture trail “The Sight”.

The sculpture trail "The Sight" begins at Diepholz Castle and ends at the Dümmer Museum in Lembruch. The first section was completed in June 2014. Most of the objects are located in the middle section of the path on the banks of the Wätering not far from federal highway 51 , from where some of them can be seen. In 2016 the path was extended to Lemförde . More sculptures were placed especially along the east bank of the Dümmers. In its southern section, the sculpture path “The Sight” is partly the same route as the “See Sight” path.

Art Mile of the City of Wittmund : Sculpture Path in Wittmund ( East Frisia )

The Wald-Weg -zeichen sculpture path has existed since 2001 as a connecting path between the Syke District Museum and the Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art. It is located in Friedeholz, a forest area in the city of Syke ( district of Diepholz ), and is currently made up of seven wooden installations by various artists.

Sculpture Mile Hannover with a 12 m high figure steel angel

Sculpture 7th day of creation on the Art Sculpture Path on the dike in Dangast

Steel sculpture rain catcher on the Dümmerufer near Lembruch

Sculpture Jacob's ladder on the Salzgitter-Bad sculpture trail

North Rhine-Westphalia

Sculpture by Volker Friedrich Marten ( Woher-Wohin, 2002) on the art trail MenschenSpuren in the Neandertal.

The Art Trail Hinsbeck is a sculpture trail that was established between 1992 and 2002 in Hinsbeck , North Rhine-Westphalia .

The MenschenSpuren art trail is a sculpture trail with works by 11 artists in the Neandertal .

The Wittgenstein – Sauerland Forest Sculpture Trail is a 23.4 km long hiking trail in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) that was opened in 2000 and leads from Bad Berleburg to Schmallenberg in the Rothaar Mountains .

The Sculpture Path Art Meets Kohl is a sculpture exhibition that has been held in Münster every year from June to September since 2005 .

The fountain mile Duisburg is located in the city center on Königstraße .

The sound forest (10 stations with sculptures and installations by Horst Rellecke ) on the circular hiking trail in the Arnsberg Forest / west of the B 229 at the “Torhaus” (south-west of Lake Möhnese ).

Rhineland-Palatinate

Willi Bauer, Conversations on the Pond , 1986, Schweinstal Sculpture Trail

The Rhineland-Palatinate Sculpture Trail will gradually lead through the whole of Rhineland-Palatinate and connect all parts of the country.
On Sculpture Schweinstal 1986 one of the first was a sculptor symposia in Rhineland-Palatinate performed. Today it comprises 25 works.
The Jockgrim Sculpture Path was laid out in 1989 as part of an international sculpture symposium in the Jockgrim Bürgerpark.
The Trippstadt-Stelzenberg sculpture trail was laid out south of Trippstadt at several international sculpture symposia between 1992 and 2009 .
The Karlstal sculpture trail was laid out south of Trippstadt at several international sculpture symposia between 1990 and 1996 .
The sculpture Rodenbach was born in 1991 in Rodenbach by an initiative of the community.
Stones on the river , on a cycle path between Konz and Palzem , was created at two sculpture symposiums in 1999 and 2001.
The Kandel sculpture trail was created in 1993 and was expanded in 2009 to include a wood sculptor symposium .
The Rodalben sculpture trail was created in 1995 at a sculpture symposium.
The old cemetery sculpture park in Pirmasens was created in 1998 at a sculpture symposium. It includes 10 sculptures.
The Remagen Sculpture Bank on the left bank of the Rhine in the area of the city of Remagen was created in 2002. The Arp Museum and the city of Remagen are planning the installation of 12 to 14 sculptures.
The Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler sculpture trail was created in 2002 at a sculpture symposium .
The Bitburg Sculpture Cycle Path was created in 2003 and leads from Bitburg to Steinheim (Luxembourg) in Luxembourg .
Sculptures on the River was created in 2007 and leads from Konz to Serrig in the Trier-Saarburg district .
Stones for stone turning in the district of Kaiserslautern was created in 2012 at a sculpture symposium on a private initiative. The sculpture path includes 12 works.

Saarland

Street of Sculptures (St. Wendel)

The street of the sculptures (St. Wendel) extends between St. Wendel and the Bostalsee for about 25 kilometers. 38 sculptures can be seen at the edge of the street. The Sculpture Street is part of the Street of Peace , which was realized by Leo Kornbrust based on an idea by the sculptor Otto Freundlich .

Stones on the border is the name of a sculpture road along the German-French border on the heights of the Saargau . It is part of the Road of Peace and includes z. Currently 31 sculptures (2008).

Saxony

Sculpture path between Herrnhut and Großhennersdorf , here works of art on Christian themes are presented at 16 stations along a hiking trail in the landscape.

In Lichtenstein / Sa. , In 1996 the venue for the first Saxon State Garden Show, a sculpture trail was installed in 2009/2010. 15 works of art - mostly made of wood - can be discovered on the tour. A large part was created during the wood carving symposia in the Daetz-Centrum , a globally unique exhibition of international wood carving art, which is both the starting point and the end point of the route. The path connects the city center of Lichtenstein with the palace palace.

Thuringia

On the edge of the Hainich National Park between Behringen and Hütscheroda / Wüstung Heßwinkel, a twelve-kilometer-long sculpture trail and a sculpture park have been set up. A sculpture symposium is held here every year.

Since 2009 a sculpture path has been created in the spa gardens and around the Burgsee in Bad Salzungen .

The Pummpälzweg connects Eisenach with the spa town of Bad Salzungen , the around 30 sculptures and wood carvings displayed here were created by students from the wood carving school Empfertshausen .

Art hiking trail in the vicinity of Kleinbreitenbach , which has existed since 1996 and is expanded by regular symposia with international visual artists.

Sculpture routes in other states

Australia

The University of New South Wales Sculpture Walk in Sydney features 15 works by Australian sculptors.

Great Britain

The Cambridge Sculpture Trails consist of a combination of three sculpture trails on which around 60 sculptures are set up.

Italy

From the South Tyrolean Sculpture Path , an approximately 18 km long section at the moment Lana completed, are located on the 21 works of art. An extension to the neighboring communities is planned.
The “ArteNatura Route” as part of the “ Arte Sella ” project in Val di Sella near Borgo Valsugana in the Trentino-South Tyrol region is an approx. 3 km long sculpture path with over 20 works of art by various artists of different nationalities.

Croatia

Glagolitic Avenue, Station 3: The seat of the Kliment of Ohrid

On the Istrian peninsula there is a 6 km long Glagolitic avenue between Roč and Hum . Eleven monuments along the avenue commemorate important historical stages in the development of Old Slavic written material.

Netherlands

Beeldenroute Westersingel in Rotterdam

Austria

The way to the "Sculptures in the Landscape" is in Pöttsching . Some of the sculptures originally created by international artists as part of the St. Margarethen Sculpture Symposium were set up here in Karl Prantl's hometown .

In Prigglitz the objects of "Art in the Landscape" by Johannes and Charlotte Seidl can be hiked.