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Bertlich
(Stadt Herten)
Kr. Recklinghausen
Nordrhein-Westfalen

Bahnhofstraße 156
(Christuskirche)

Weltkugel

Globe

Burkhard Zeunert & Reiner Friedrich
1980

Description

Metal globe with on the surface of the continents figures and scenes related to war.
For this globe pastor Zeunert had collected war toys from the neighboring children and buried them under the globe before the work was carried out.
A second work by Zeunert und Friedrich is Das Gehende Kreuz is nearby at the Christuskirche, which is is closed since 2014.

Bertlich - Weltkugel

Signature

Sculptors

Reiner Friedrich, German art smith of Herten-Westerholt.
Burkhard Zeunert, Pastor of the Evangelical Church of Herten-Westerholt.

Sources & Information

Stadt Herten, Kunstwerken im öffentlichen Raum, Sept. 2012 (PDF online).
Wikipedia, Liste von Kunstwerken im öffentlichen Raum in Herten.

Locatie (N 51°36'33" - E 7°4'58") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: denw1000; Photograph: 1 August 2022
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