Human Rights Road

The Way of Human Rights (English The Way of Human Rights ) is a spacious outdoor sculpture and memorial in the city center of Nuremberg . It was created by the Israeli artist Dani Karavan , whose concept won a competition in 1988 in connection with the extension of the Germanic National Museum .

construction

The facility extends over the entire length of Kartäusergasse , between Kornmarkt and Frauentormauer . From an entrance gate through a free-standing wall (16 m wide, 8 m high) made of exposed white concrete , a row of 27 round concrete pillars (8 m high, 80 cm in diameter), two floor slabs ( 80 cm in diameter) and a columnar oak . The elements, which are arranged at equal intervals of 5.7 m, each have an excerpt from the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in German and one other language .

Entrance to the street of human rights
Human Rights Road (December 2012)
Information board about the languages of the article inscriptions
Detailed view of the inscription of Article 1

effect

According to the human rights office of the city of Nuremberg, the street of human rights is "both an indictment of the crimes of the National Socialists and a reminder that has turned to stone that human rights are still massively violated in many countries around the world".

The Street of Human Rights was opened on October 24, 1993. In the same year the idea for the International Nuremberg Human Rights Prize arose .

literature

Ruth Bach-Damaskinos: Street of Human Rights. In: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg. 2nd, improved edition. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 1999, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 . ( Online )
Peter Laub, Konrad Scheurmann (ed.): Straße der Menschenrechte = Way of Human Rights. Dani Karavan. Working group of independent cultural institutes eV (AsKI), Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-930370-03-4 .
Ursula Peters: Dani Karavan: Path of Human Rights. In: Ursula Peters (Ed.): Modern times. The 20th Century Collection. (= Cultural-historical walks in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Volume 3), Verlag des Germanisches Nationalmuseums, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-926982-61-6 , pp. 274–281.

Web links

Commons : Street of Human Rights - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Human Rights Road . In: Website City of Nuremberg.
Rainer Aul, Franz Engeser: Symbol for Peace - 20 Years of the Road of Human Rights . In: BR , October 25, 2010
Dani Karavan: Speech at the opening of the Street of Human Rights (PDF)
Dani Karavan: Ceremonial address for 20 years of the Human Rights Road (PDF)

Individual evidence

^ City of Nuremberg: Street of Human Rights. Retrieved September 12, 2012.

49.448186111111 11.075205555556Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '53.5 " N , 11 ° 4' 30.7" E

[1] City of Nuremberg: Street of Human Rights. Retrieved September 12, 2012.