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Carolinensiel
(Stadt Wittmund)
Lkr. Wittmund
Niedersachsen

Am Hafen

Cliner Wind

To commemorate the term 'Cliner Wind' (wind from Carolinensiel), referring to the sea breeze and the different atmosphere between Carolinensiel and the surrounding farmland.

Anders Petersen & Hans-Christian Petersen
2005

Description

Bronze sculpture of a girl with a sail boat in her hands, standing on a brick base representing a wave.

Annotation

Unveiled at the 275st anniversary of Carolinensiel on 28 May 2005. The sculptors were insprired by Marie Ulfers' novel Windiger Siel (Windy Sluice). In Carolinensiel it were actually the women who determined the town, since the boatmen were often gone for weeks or months. The statue show however not a mourning or waiting woman, as is often seen, but a woman looking forward.

Sculptors

Anders Petersen (Elmshorn 1959), sculptor and graphic artist from Hamburg (Website – Wikipedia), brother of Hans-Christian Petersen
Hans-Christian Petersen (Elmshorn 1947), painter, sculptor and graphic artist in Bensersiel (Website), brother of Anders Petersen. Ref. 'Wie der Vater, so der Sohn, in Ostfriesland-Magazin 12/2005 (PDF on-line).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Carolinensiel.
Gewerbeverein Carolinensiel, through Archive.org, first page and second page.

Locatie (N 53°41'26" - E 7°48'6") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: dens217; Photograph: 27 April 2014
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