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Ettlrad

Posted by John Andresen, Thursday, 6th November 2008

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What is going on here in Grevenbroich, Germany? This shadow appears to be large human heads on a wheel.

It is actually a steel sculpture by George Ettl, entitled Ettlrad, a play on the German word, Schaufelrad, or paddlewheel. According to a translation of the city of Grevenbroich’s website, the wheel symbolizes the wheel of a coal excavator, with human heads rather than shovels.

The sculpture was part of the Landesgartenschau (Regional Garden Show) in 1995, whose principle is, “To heal the earth.” You can really see their smiles in this ground view photo.

Thanks to hati39 for the suggestion.

Countries: Germany

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One Response to 'Ettlrad'

  1. m says:
    Friday, 7th November 2008 at 11:20 pm

    here

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    you can see a real schaufelradbagger (coal excavator). pretty large things.
    some years ago there was an accident in which the excavator ate a whole bulldozer.

    see the biggest one here
    http://www.oih.rwth-aachen.de/~hendrik/bagger.html

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