Sightseeing tour • Rundtour

Skulpturenweg Lörrach - Kunstspaziergang durch die Stadt

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0:50 h

3.43 km

7 m

6 m

Lörrach city centre is best discovered on foot. A sculpture trail with works by Bernd Goering, Ulrich Rückriem, Stephan Balkenhol, Franz Bernhard, Bruce Nauman and Beatrix Sassen crosses the town centre. Original fountains and sculptures decorate and enliven the streets and squares of the pedestrian zone, which was opened in 1991 at the end of the major urban redevelopment - whether figurative or abstract, witty, admonishing or mystical, they give the city walk a special flair.

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Dauer

0:50 h

Distanz

3.43 km

Aufstieg

7 m

Abstieg

6 m

Höchster Punkt

298 hm

Tiefster Punkt

291 hm

Kondition

Technik

Landschaft

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Kulturelle Highlights

Wegebeschaffenheit

0 % Naturnah

86 % Asphalt

0 % Feinschotter

0 % Sonstiges

The "Truncated Pyramid Room" pyramid in the castle courtyard is the work of American artist Bruce Nauman and his first work to be exhibited in Europe. At a height of 7.50 metres, the pyramid with its three wide, rectangular openings rises up as a walk-in room. Nauman's model seems ambivalent. It is reminiscent of the Egyptian funerary pyramid in terms of its form and accessibility, but turns away from it again by cutting and opening the top.
"Sun Faces" by Lörrach sculptor Rudolf Scheurer greet visitors to the Museum am Burghof (2003). The artist consciously refers to the relationship to the sun as a life and joy-giving element rooted in our space. Cast in special aluminium, the three faces have a positive aura. Scheurer's sculpture from 1962, "Evolution", is also located directly opposite. The sculpture, carved in Jura marble, was inspired by the saris worn by Indian women.
Sassen sculpture Beatrix Sassen calls her work for the redesigned Meeraner Platz "Light in the head". The 3.20 m high sculpture, cast from aluminium, shows the soft profile of a face, whose expression shines and shines in the striking light. The changing light conditions play a central role, as they encourage self-reflection and inner dialogue.
"Suche der Stadt Bestes" is the name of the sculpture by Ralf Johannes Kratz. It was presented to the public on 25 May 2002 as part of the celebrations to mark Lörrach's 900th anniversary. The theme of the sculpture comes from the book of the prophet Jeremiah. It says "Build houses, plant gardens, start families... seek the best for the town... and pray to the Lord for them".
The sculpture "Existential Need" by Lörrach artist Konrad Winzer was placed between the vicarage and the town church. In his work, Winzer interprets the suffering and desperate human being. This location was chosen deliberately, as the former department stores' (now the town library) of the Jewish Knopf family stands opposite the sculpture. Like the many Jews of this city, they experienced the horrors of National Socialism, suffering, despair and annihilation.
The Kronenbrunnen fountain on the corner of Herrenstraße and Baslerstraße was created by the Swiss artist Urs Bargetzi in 1827. The name of the fountain goes back to its location - in front of the former Gasthaus zur Krone.
The sculpture "Tendency rising" in front of the savings bank branch Am Alten Markt was created by the Swede Lasse Brander. Colourless, transparent glass, cut into rectangles and layered, winds gracefully upwards on a granite plinth. The light hitting the edge of the glass creates a play of colour and light.
The fountain Am Alten Markt by Franz Häring with its circular spring basin marks the central crossroads of the street, which was redesigned in 1995. A monolith made of green serpentine forms the end point of the Alter Markt. The connection between the two works is illuminated in the evening using fibre optic technology in the floor.
The market fountain made of Jura limestone by the Swiss artist Urs Bargetzi from 1838 is a replica of the fountain on the Münsterberg in Basel.
The cubic sculpture "Granit Rosa Porriño" on the old market square was created by Ulrich Rückriem. A mighty granite cube sits enthroned in the centre of a crossroads. Its design has a concept. Holes, cracks and fissures are traces of the natural origin of the stone. At the same time, they are also a reference to the artist's technical realisation.
Urs Bargetzi designed the Hirschenbrunnen fountain at the junction of Turmstrasse and Tumringer Strasse with its classical column and town coat of arms in the trough in 1827. The Hirschen inn originally stood here.
The Hebel monument in Hebelpark was created in 1910 by Wilhelm Gerstel as a naturalistic, larger-than-life statue of the Alemannic poet.
The fountain figures "Der Heiner und der Brassenheimer Müller" by Karl-Henning Seemann add a cheerful touch to the station square. The depiction of the chubby miller, who is looking perplexedly after Heiner, who is dashing away on his horse, is based on a calendar story by Johann Peter Hebel.
The sculpture "Triade" by Giancarlo Sangregorio stands in front of the new town hall. It is an abstract stone sculpture made of black-green serpentine and red Swedish granite. The fountain sculpture "Lebensquell" by Jörg Bollin, a fruit-shaped stone over which water gushes, symbolises the origin of all life.
The large sculpture "Lörracher Sitzende" by Franz Bernhard stands at the subway road at the entrance to the town. With this steel sculpture, the artist strives for an ethereal representation. The tool marks are deliberately left visible, the weld seams uncoated and the metal surfaces unsealed.
Max Laeuger's ceramic relief at St Boniface's Church shows the crucified Jesus with Mary and John as well as elements from the biblical parables. Max Laeuger created this work in the spirit of Art Nouveau in 1902.
The "Wolkenwaage" fountain sculpture on Senigalliaplatz was created in 1997 by Franz Häring from three different materials - stone, steel and Plexiglas - and combined with the medium of water. Inspired by water, the artist sees the water basin as a ship, into which he places eight fountains as sails. His installation is brought to life by a swinging water shovel that pours water into the basin twice a minute, symbolising the water cycle. A square, azure blue Plexiglas surface with the motif of a cloudy sky crowns the cloud scale and gives it its name.
The cor-ten steel sculpture by English sculptor Nigel Hall stands in the urban centre in front of the entrance to the new Sparkasse extension and on the west side of the district administration office. Nigel Hall is a constructivist who develops non-objective spatial symbols, comparable to Eduardo Chillida or Norbert Krikke. "Space and time" are inseparable relationship factors in this free-standing sculpture. The sculptor gave his sculpture the name "Lörrach rising".
"9 November" is the name of the sculpture in front of the Lörrach district office. Bernd Goering commemorates three dates: 9 November 1918, 1938 and 1989, all of which are political events and turning points in German history. Two upright concrete pillars flank two diagonal and seemingly intersecting concrete columns. Together they form a Roman IX and XI that can be read from both sides. The concrete material is intended as a reminder of the most recent event, the fall of the Wall. Cast-in letters also refer to the events associated with the dates and explain them at the same time.
The "large pillar figure" on Senser-Platz was created by Stephan Balkenhol. A male figure stands on a 4 metre high, bright red Douglas fir trunk. Balkenhol sees in his figure the bourgeois contemporary, today's man, and interprets him as everyday, unremarkable, average.
Bernd Goering's fountain at Tumringer Strasse 187 is called "Interrupted cycle of nature" and its imperfect circular shape symbolises the disruptive intervention of man in nature.
The memorial plaque with a seven-branched candelabra in Synagogengasse between Teichstraße and Neuer Marktplatz commemorates the former synagogue. This Jewish site was severely damaged during the Reich Pogrom Night of 1938 and finally demolished in 1939.
The fountain sculpture "Tree of Life" stands on the market square and was planned and realised by Michael Fischer. Above the elongated fountain trough rises the tree of life with a pair of lovers in the treetop as a symbol of all living things. It is not without reason that the artist chose living moments, as a colourful farmers' market takes place on this market square on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

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