Art hiking station of Naturpark Hirschwald Amberg

From 2013 to 2016, the Hirschwald Nature Park set up an art walking station in each of its 8 member municipalities. Each station has an artistic and a nature conservation theme.
Themes of the Amberg station:
WORK OF ART: OBJECTION
Amberg Gate: From military to educational location
The work of art reflects the change, the development process and the challenge of the city of Amberg and its people. At the center of this objectification, people are formed from an abstract structure. Parallel to the development process of people, the relief shows the change in the city of Amberg.
The process from military to educational location is traced using incorporated dates. To illustrate this, the structure also changes from bottom to top. The massive, impenetrable and rough surface in the lower part represents isolation and aggression. It becomes more permeable, lighter and brighter towards the top: it comes into contact with the outside world through openings. Through the educational institutions that have been created and developed over the centuries, people today have the opportunity to develop their social, intellectual and character skills and thus become capable of dealing with conflicts, tasks and problems.
The bronze gate represents opening up, dialogue with the world.
Design: Hanna Regina Uber and Robert Diem
HISTORY OF THE HIRSCHWALD AND THE FOREST AREAS OF THE UPPER PALATINATE
The Hirschwald, which gives the nature park its name, is a large, closed forest complex in the eastern part of the nature park. In addition to the private forest property, a large part is communal forest belonging to the city of Amberg, but the majority is under the administration of the Burglengenfeld state forestry company. The region was an important mining region in the Middle Ages. The smelting of iron ore and the operation of charcoal kilns and iron hammers meant that there was a high demand for firewood, which led to extensive deforestation and the conversion of beech-dominated deciduous forest communities to coniferous forests. Today, both the Bavarian State Forests and many private forest owners are striving to convert their forests into stable mixed forests in order to meet the challenges of the future with regard to climate change.
As the capital of the Upper Palatinate within the Principality of the Electorate of the Palatinate, Amberg was also the residence of the Electors for many centuries. Especially in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, the Electors liked to indulge their passion for hunting in the Hirschwald. They built a hunting lodge in the town of Hirschwald for this purpose. The high game pressure and the compulsory labor required for the lordly hunt meant severe disruption for the farmers who settled there. Several settlements were completely abandoned, and some of these abandoned places can still be found in the forest today. However, there are still deer in the Hirschwald today. They often migrate from the neighboring Hohenfels military training area.
More information:
naturparkhirschwald.de/kultur-leben/kunstwanderweg.html
naturparkhirschwald.de/amberg-225.html

Nice round for art lovers you can walk past some things

Sculpture in the former state garden show grounds. The more interesting part is a good distance down the Vils.