Strolling along the Via spinosissima | The old Freihamer Weg

Elvira Auer

OCT 24 — OCT 28

Various locations in Freiham

Close-up of a rose bush with white blooming roses

Strolling along the Via spinosissima – The old Freihamer Weg, 2024 © Foto: Elvira Auer

Planted dune roses mark the old Freiham path that was buried by the major construction site and bring it back to life in the imagination.

Where Munich’s newest district, Freiham, is being built today, there used to be arable land, crossed by a centuries-old path. This so-called Freihamer Weg disappeared almost entirely beneath the construction site. In places, it had been lined with wild roses of the Rosa spinosissima variety, a very thorny rose that can be found on sand dunes. In this project, the replanting of specimens that were rescued from the digger mark the historical route of the old Freihamer Weg and revive it in the imagination of the viewer. Accompanying panels explain the background to the resulting “Via spinosissima,” whose thorns also represent the challenges of loss and new beginnings. Walks along the route take old and new residents alike on a poetic journey between the past and future of a district that has yet to develop its identity.

Elvira Auer, born in 1969, lives and works in Munich.

 

Opening

Attention, postponed to 12.10. due to rain! 10 October 2024, 3.00 pm
south of the Freihamer Freiluftgarten, 81248 Munich-Freiham

Guided walks

12 October and 03 November 2024, 3.00 pm each day
from Freihamer Freiluftgarten, 81248 Munich-Freiham

 

 

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Close-up of a rose bush with white blooming roses
Strolling along the Via spinosissima – The old Freihamer Weg, 2024 © Foto: Elvira Auer
Position sheet 961 (around 1852), Bavarian Surveying Administration – www.geodaten.bayern.de, edited by Elvira Auer © Foto: Bavarian Surveying Administration, Editing Elvira Auer

Veranstaltungen

postponed to 12.10. due to rain! Opening “Strolling along the Via spinosissima | The old Freihamer Weg”

south of the Freihamer Freiluftgarten

Close-up of a rose bush with white blooming roses

opening and guided walk “Strolling along the Via spinosissima | The old Freihamer Weg”

Freihamer Freiluftgarten

Close-up of a rose bush with white blooming roses

guided walk

Freihamer Freiluftgarten

Close-up of a rose bush with white blooming roses

Location

Various locations in Freiham

Karte