RIVERS & BRIDGES
TROUBLED WATERS
Robert Adrian
http://www.aec.at/freelance/rax/BRIDGE/index.html
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The photo shows the bridge, with a full size plaster model of "Kriemhild", one of 4 sculptures on Teutonic themes by Graf Plettenburg, awaiting inspection by Hitler in 1943. Directly behind the sculpture, on the Urfahr bank of the Danube, is the site of the new ARS ELECTRONICA CENTER. |
| TROUBLED WATERS http://www.aec.at/freelance/rax/BRIDGE/index.html During the week of the the Ars Electronica Festival'96 (September 1-7 1996) a video surveillance camera will be directed on the Nibelungenbrucke from the roof of the Ars Electronica Center. Images from the camera will be immediately digitized and displayed on the World Wide Web - 24 hours a day non-stop. The WWW site will include historical data about the bridge and about the Mauthausen concentration camp which provided much of the granit for the bridge. |
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Adolf Hitler's plans for a "New World Order" included an
ambitious rebuilding of Europe. Linz, the city where Hitler
grew up, had a special place in these plans: Linz was to become
the European "Kulturhauptstadt" - the cultural capital of
the new Europe under German hegemony. The Nazi architects
Speer, Giesler and Fick all worked on elements of the plans
for Linz, which included museums, theatres, libraries,
various party buildings, bridges and an opera house. A large,
detailed model of the complex was built by Giesler. Hitler's war prevented more than a few of his plans for a New Europe from being completed, and most did not survive the destruction of Hitler's Germany in 1945. An exception is the Nibelungen Bridge in Linz. |
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