Sculpture trail

Sculptures paths ( also art walks ) are promenades, where there are numerous, designed especially for this place sculptures. As an artistic concept stand sculptures lanes near the Land Art. At installation of sculptures Because an attempt is made to bring art and landscape in one line, so as to increase the aesthetic pleasure.

In recent years originated in German-speaking numerous sculptures ways. Apart from the aesthetic point of frequently occurred in the system of paths and economic interests, especially in the area of tourism. In contrast to the sculpture garden but no Eintrittsobolus is required and they are usually not affiliated with an institution.

Often the sculptures, a sculptor symposium will be organized jointly by the artists.

  • 2.1 Australia
  • 2.2 United Kingdom
  • 2.3 Italy
  • 2.4 Croatia
  • 2.5 The Netherlands

Sculptures paths in Germany

Baden-Wurttemberg

  • The Sculpture Emperor chair Hohentengen is a cross- border project, connecting communities Emperor chair AG ( Switzerland ) and Hohentengen on the Upper Rhine ( Germany ) on a trail on the Upper Rhine. There are ten sculptures on the distance covered.
  • Sculpture Tour Schorndorf - 35 sculptures in public space by Timm Ulrichs, Erich Hauser, Eckhart Dietz, Robert Schad et al artists.
  • Sculpture Walk in Schwäbisch Gmünd - Straßdorf - with works by Eckhart Dietz, Max Seiz et al
  • The wine Panorama Trail in Heilbronn was transformed by the permanent establishment of numerous sculptures in a sculpture.
  • Sculpture trail in the vineyards in wine city Strümpfelbach - with sculptures by Karl Ulrich Nuss and whose father, Fritz Nuss
  • The Art Trail Ulm University was established in 1989/90 on the campus Upper Eselsberg. It includes more than 60 sculptures and internationally renowned artists.
  • Sculpture Mile Mannheim since 1994 includes a collection of more than 60 modern and contemporary works, which are situated in the city center.
  • The Kirchheimer Art Walks in Kirchheim unter Teck in 2004 includes a collection of contemporary works of German and international artists in the city and a little haven.
  • The Art Trail at the Reichenbach is a Sculpture Trail at Gernsbach in the northern Black Forest. In a conservation area it extends over 3.2 kilometers between Hilpertsau, way Bach and Reichental. Since 2006, more than 25 sculptures and land art works were installed.
  • The SkulpTour Bietigheim- Bissingen was started in the early 1980s. Especially in public places and parks a collection of more than 35 contemporary sculptures and objects created and internationally renowned artists.
  • Bersigheim sculpture trail in Besigheim was applied to the 850 - year anniversary Besigheims 2003. Since 2011, he has more than twenty works.
  • The sculpture in Lörrach Lörrach was created as a tour of the city center between 1986 and 1991. It leads to more than twenty works of German and international artists.
  • The Pfinztaler sculpture has been open since 2001. 23 artists are exhibiting on the way. The Sculpture in Kleinsteinbach not only brings art into the village, but also the natural center of the village closer to the people. Periodically organized tours take place.

Bavaria

  • The Franconian street of the sculptures is a circular route around the town Litzendorf (Bavaria ) with 20 sculptures by artists from Germany and other European countries. Began in 1994, the sculptor and graphic ad Freundorfer with the first Sculpture Symposium. Since then, sculpture symposiums are held at irregular intervals.
  • Way of contemplation in Bad Kissingen (2 km, 12 stations )

Berlin

  • People landscape of Berlin is a 1987 installed art project in Berlin- Kreuzberg. This is it, this is a sculpture trail, which leads from the Silesian gate to the May- Ayim -Ufer and thereby contains seven sculptural works of art. The project was developed at a Sculpture Symposium.

Brandenburg

  • The art walk Hoher Flaming was opened in summer 2007 and runs for a distance of 17 km from Bad Belzig after Wiesenburg / Mark

Hesse

  • The Giessen Art Trail since 1982, Campus Justus -Liebig- University 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 Rückriem.

Lower Saxony

  • On the trail Moving stones at Brelingen in the Hanover region ten sculptures convey insights into the glacial origin of the Brelinger mountain. The project " Moving Stones" combines the classic sculpture with a geological adventure trail.
  • The sculpture trail Damme, which is located in the center of the city consists currently of 44 sculptures in 37 locations.
  • The Sculpture Mile Hannover is a 1,500 -meter stretch of road in Hanover with eight sculptures, mostly of metal. The very different works are mainly on the green central island and a four-lane busy street.
  • Sculptures shore Hude: On a 1.4 acre meadow on Huder creek about 40 publicly accessible works of the sculptor Wolf E. Schultz are issued. The plant was established in 1992.
  • Art sculpture trail on the dike, two-piece sculpture trail along the cycling route around the Lower Saxony Jade Bay.
  • Sculpture Lamspringe as bike path on the former branch line Kreiensen -Hildesheim between Lamspringe and Bad Gandersheim to 12 km in length. This sculpture is the southern section of the 47 km long cycle path to art that begins in Sarstedt at the mouth of the heart in the line, via Hildesheim, Bad Salzdetfurth, floor castle and Lamspringe and ends in Bad Gandersheim.
  • Because art is a network of sculptures paths between the German North Horn ( County Bentheim ) and Zwolle ( Overijssel ), which developed since the early 1980s and extends mainly along the Vecht. More than 60 works of art are connected by a road network of about 140 km in length.
  • On Sculpture Salzgitter-Bad, a total of nine sculptures.
  • Kunstmeile the city Witt mouth: Sculpture in Witt mouth ( Ostfriesland)

North Rhine -Westphalia

  • The Art Trail Hinsbeck is a sculpture trail, which was established between 1992 and 2002 in Hinsbeck, North Rhine -Westphalia.
  • The Art Trail traces of people is a sculpture with works by 11 artists in the Neander Valley.
  • The Waldskulpturenweg Wittgenstein -Sauerland is a 22 km hiking trail in North Rhine -Westphalia ( Germany ), which was opened in 2000 and operates in the Rothaargebirge of Bad Berleburg to Schmallenberg.
  • The Sculpture Trail art meets carbon is a year since 2005 from June to September sculpture exhibition held in Münster ( Westphalia).
  • The wells mile Duisburg is located in downtown on the King's Road.
  • The sound of the forest ( 10 stations with sculptures and installations by Horst Rellecke ) on the loop trail in the Arnsberg Forest / west of the B 229 in the " gatehouse " ( south - west of Lake Möhne ).

Rhineland -Palatinate

  • The Sculpture Rhineland-Palatinate is in its final phase lead throughout Rhineland -Palatinate and connect all parts of the country. Currently sections are merely completed, so in Bad Neuenahr -Ahrweiler, in Karlstal in Kaiserslautern, in Rodalben and the Saar and Upper Moselle ( project stones on the river).
  • The Sculpture Rodenbach is a 3 -km route that leads through the forest kingdom in Rodenbach near Kaiserslautern. There are 20 sculptures are from the Master School of Crafts from Kaiserslautern.
  • Sculptures shore Remagen on the left bank of the Rhine in the city Remagen

Saarland

  • The road of the sculptures ( St. Wendel ) extends between St. Wendel and the Bostalsee about 25 kilometers. At the edge of the road are to see 38 sculptures. The sculptures street is part of the road of peace, which was realized by Leo grain chest after an idea of the sculptor Otto Freundlich.
  • Stones at the boundary is called a sculpture street along the German - French border on the heights of Saargaues. It is part of part of the road of peace and currently comprises 31 sculptures (2008).

Saxony

  • Sculpture trail between Herrnhut and Großhennersdorf, here are situated along a hiking trail in the countryside at 16 stations works of art presented to Christian themes.
  • In Lichtenstein / Sa., 1996 hosted the first Saxon State Garden Show, 2009/2010, a sculpture trail has been installed. 15 Artworks - a wooden one can be discovered during the tour. A large part arose during wood sculpture symposia Daetz Centre, a unique exhibition of international wood sculpture, which is also the start and end of the route. The path connecting the city center with the castle Lichtenstein Palace.

Thuringia

  • On the edge of the National Park Hainich a sculpture trail of twelve kilometers in length and a sculpture park was established between Behringen and Hütscheroda / Wüstung Heßwinkel. Each year there is a sculpture symposium here.
  • Since 2009, a sculpture created in the park and around the castle lake in Bad Salzungen.
  • The Pummpälzweg connects Eisenach with the spa town of Bad Salzungen, the requirements herein about 30 sculptures and Holzschitzarbeiten were created by students of the wood carver school Empfertshausen.
  • Since 1996, existing art walk near Kleinbreitenbach, which is extended by regular symposia with international visual artists.

Sculptures ways in other states

Australia

  • The sculpture at the University of New South Wales in Sydney shows 15 works of Australian sculptor.

Great Britain

  • At the water reservoir of Glenkiln, a valley in the Scottish Lowlands west of Dumfries, Sir William Keswick 1951-1976 various bronze sculptures by Henry Moore, Jacob Epstein and Auguste Rodin on his land in the open countryside on. The distance along the sculpture is about 6 km.

Italy

  • From the South Tyrolean Sculpture Path, a 18 kilometers long section at Lana is currently completed, at which there are 21 works of art. An extension to the neighboring communities is planned.

Croatia

  • On the Istrian peninsula is the 6 -kilometer Glagolitic Alley between Roč and Hum. Eleven monuments along the avenue remember important historical locations in the development of the Slavic written material.

Netherlands

  • Beeldenroute Westersingel in Rotterdam

Other examples

  • Ars Natura as an art trail in central Germany on two long-distance footpaths
  • Boundary encounters - way between east and west on the ridge at Eschlkam
  • Art walk Rednitzhembach
  • Path of Art University of Ulm
  • Pfinztaler Sculpture
  • Klufterner Art Trail
Felsberg, Hesse Karl Prantl (sculptor) Bodenburg Nordhorn Vechte Wittmund Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Rodenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate Hainich National Park Lana, South Tyrol
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