Burg Schlitz-Görzhausen Sculpture Trail
● Hohen Demzin
Art along the way... what a great idea! Sculptures that truly "come to life" in nature and the surrounding cultural landscape. Fire, Millennium Trees, pasque flowers, a fried egg, ancestral or messenger stones, steles, pyramids, and cuddly shells...In every season, in any weather, with ever-changing impressions—a wonderful experience...
An open-air exhibition space, a path you can stroll along, taking in not only the art but also breathtaking nature: Mecklenburg Switzerland. As a Swiss person, you might find this name amusing, but by Mecklenburg standards, the hills rise high. The hills rise gently, they slope down gently again, and this creates a smoothness, a harmony, that is unparalleled.
At the beginning of the 19th century, Hans Graf von Schlitz was drawn to this area, surrounding his newly built castle, “Burg Schlitz,” with an unusual park. Graf Schlitz planted many trees, including exotic species, and skillfully laid out extensive walking paths. He had thirty-six monuments erected: columns, obelisks, grottoes, and even lakes. Görzhausen was also established at this time—today the center of the new sculpture trail being created between here and Burg Schlitz.
In the late 1990s, the two artists Wilfried Duwentester and Bernd Uiberall took up the count’s idea and brought it into dialogue with contemporary sculpture. The sculptures “live” in the open air, in dialogue with the vastness and the existing cultural landscape, which has been shaped by humans for centuries yet still harbors a powerful, almost exuberant natural vitality.
The Sculpture Trail thrives largely on the fact that the artists incorporate the existing landscape into their work from the very moment of creation. As walkers, we can then listen to the resulting dialogue between landscape and art.
Every visit to the Sculpture Trail is different. The changing weather and seasons constantly lend the landscape a completely different character, creating an enormous variety of impressions even in the same spot, with the same sculpture.