Rubble Women Monument (Vienna)

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Rubble women monument on the Mölker Bastei in Vienna

The rubble women monument is a memorial on private property in Vienna , which is intended to commemorate the work of rubble women in the reconstruction of the city that was destroyed by Allied bombing during and after the Second World War .

history

In September 2018 the monument was unveiled on the green strip donated by the entrepreneur Siegmund Kahlbacher on the Mölker Bastei in the 1st district. The founder also bore the production costs of 60,000 euros. The erection of such a memorial was rejected by the city government because the city did not want to contribute to an undifferentiated view of the rubble women and research would indicate that in many cases former National Socialists were forced to rebuild and the number of volunteers was kept within limits have. A memorial would thus be erected to these former National Socialists. The initiative to establish it came from the Cajetan Fields Instituteout. The FPÖ , to which the institute is closely connected, had been calling for such a monument to be erected since 1986 .

Bishop emeritus Klaus Küng and Protestant pastor Wilfried Fussenegger blessed the monument in the presence of numerous FPÖ politicians.

Monument description

The monument was created by the German landscape architect and sculptor Magnus Angermeier. When designing the naked, seated female figure, he borrowed from one of his earlier sculptures, Die Badende , and “brought it into connection with the rubble”.

The bronze figure sits on a stone heap of rubble, next to it rises a kind of stele made of the same stone material, on which a bronze plaque with the inscription 1943–1954 is attached. On the back of the stele are the intentions of the artist who “does not want to limit the award to the specified years. [The figure] is rooted in 2000 years of world history, wars and disasters and stands for the 'fruitful sprouting of life anew' ".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b FPÖ pays homage to the myth of rubble woman , on derstandard.at. accessed on October 4, 2018.
  2. ^ ORF-Online: Discussion about the monument for rubble women ; accessed on Oct. 1, 2018
  3. ↑ Bathers / sitters. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Why the rubble woman is naked. In: Small newspaper. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ The model for the rubble woman sculpture was the bathing figure. In: OE24. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 45.5 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 44 ″  E