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Exhibition: "Hirschhagen. Forgotten Memories"
Exhibition February 14-24, 2019, Wed-Fri 5-8 p.m., Sat and Sun 4-7 p.m.
From February 14 to 24, the KAZ in KUBA will host the exhibition "Hirschhagen. Forgotten Memories" takes place. It was organized by the Department of Landscape Architecture, Professor Ariane Röntz and M.Sc. Anne Mertins as well as students of a seminar in the current semester.
In what is now Hirschhagen, a town south-east of Kassel, the Hessisch Lichtenau explosives factory began operations in 1938 in the middle of the Kaufunger Forest under the code name Friedland. Until March 1945, thousands of Nazi forced laborers were forced to produce TNT and picric acid here; many died as a result of the inhumane living conditions and explosives accidents. Even today, 70 years after the Nazi tyranny, there are still traces and relics of this period and the way in which the site and objects of this time are dealt with is unclear.
In the winter semester of 2017/18, students from Faculty 6 at the University of Kassel worked on a project dealing with the complex site, the architectural traces and the topic of the landscape architectural design of memorial sites. The results of the project are now being presented in an exhibition and put up for discussion.
- Vernissage on February 14 at 6:30 pm.
- Exhibition February 14-24, 2019, Wed-Fri 5-8 p.m., Sat and Sun 4-7 p.m.