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Freiheit von Mögglingen is a statue built in a small municipality in the south of Germany, to mark and remind the successful fight by its citizens against the federal road B29 cutting through their village. Mögglingen is a place that has always been shaped by trade and traffic. With the Roman road at the Limes and the federal road B29, two important, albeit very different roads lead through and past Mögglingen. Over more than 60 years, an initiative founded by the citizens of Mögglingen fought against the passage through the town and for a bypass of B29, that would allow the two halves of the town to finally join. With the opening of the bypass road in 2019, the year of the Gartenschau (garden fair), the battle became part of the history of the town and inscribed in the landscape. This momentum, in which citizens express their idea of living together and thus manage to actually change the landscape, is the theme of “Freedom from Possiblings.” In dialogue with the sculptor and architect Marta Dyachenko, a work was created that goes beyond the architectural object and incorporates the historical and social levels of the place. The statue is an abstract casting of the Libertas and the memorial to the citizens’ initiative “Freiheit für Mögglingen—B29 raus.” The statue is a place of departure and change, at the intersection of past and future, to remind us of what is possible. It is an expression of a social responsibility to actively shape the environment. This process is not an easy one, nor a unanimous one, but an important one.

Category
Realized
Place
Remstal
Year
2017 – 2019
Collaboration
Brandlhuber+ Marta Dyachenko
Team
Olaf Grawert, Maria Hudl, Wendelin Kammermeier, Anton Peitersen, Noël Picco, Allessandro Rauschmann, Kristof Schlüßler, Kaat Volckaert

© Brandlhuber+ Team

© Marta Dyachenko

© Marta Dyachenko

© Marta Dyachenko