The German Architecture Museum based in Frankfurt wanted to show one of the protest huts from Lützerath in an exhibition.
Nothing will come of it now.
Frankfurt/Lützerath - The protest camp in Lützerath has been cleared.
Six days after the start of the police operation in the North Rhine-Westphalian hamlet, which is to be demolished by the energy company RWE in favor of the Garzweiler opencast mine, the last two activists who had waited for days in a self-built tunnel under the coal village left the lignite town.
One is relieved that the life-threatening situation of the activists could be ended through intensive talks, RWE wrote in a press release on the evacuation of the tunnel.
With the departure of the activists - "Fridays for Future" spoke of at least 35,000 demonstrators in the meantime - the protest camp is now gradually disappearing.
And that much to the displeasure of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum based in Frankfurt.
According to the museum, it had tried in vain to save a hut from the protest camp and to show it in an exhibition.
The house called "Rotkoehlchen" was destroyed during the clearing work of the energy company RWE at the weekend, the museum said on Instagram.
Activist Emily Laquer uploaded a video of the demolition of the hut to her Twitter account on Monday (January 16).
She wrote: "The police chief knew that the architecture museum wanted the historic tower in #Lützerath as a piece of contemporary history.
He didn't care," reports fnp.de.
The chief of police knew that the architecture museum wanted the historic tower in #Lützerath as a piece of contemporary history.
He did not care.
pic.twitter.com/cSimW2uNy5
— Emily Laquer (@EmilyLaquer) January 16, 2023
Exhibition on the subject of "Protest/Architecture": The tree house should come to the Frankfurt Museum
The idea of the Architecture Museum in Frankfurt was to show the wooden house in an exhibition on the subject of "Protest/Architecture", curator Oliver Elser told
dpa
on Monday .
The show, planned for autumn, explores the thesis that protest movements not only shape public space through their messages, but also through their - mostly temporary - buildings.
According to Elser, the organizers of the exhibition had been in contact with the activists who were fighting against the evacuation of Lützerath for a long time.
According to the curator, there was already a loan agreement with the activists.
Discussions with the police and RWE were not successful.
(nhe/dpa)
Last year, the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt switched sides to the Main.
The reason: The traditional headquarters at Schaumainkai 43 is being renovated and is therefore closed.
Because of the measures, which are expected to last until the end of 2023, the museum has now moved into alternative accommodation not far from Ostbahnhof.
List of rubrics: © Anna-Maria Mayerhofer / DAM