As of: February 25, 2024, 4:05 p.m
By: Lena Bammert
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The sculpture “Family in the Wind” in the Hasenbergl was stored for a long time due to renovation work.
© Klaus Haag
The bronze sculpture “Family in the Wind” stood in the Hasenbergl until 2001.
Then she was put into storage.
Only now is she back again.
The Hasenbergl has a little piece of history back: the bronze statue “Family in the Wind” has returned to the green space between Wintersteinstrasse and Fortnerstrasse after more than twenty years.
The symbol for families and people who had to start their lives over again after the war was dismantled and stored by the current Münchner Wohnen in 2001 - the reason: renovation work.
The absence was noticed during book research
The Feldmoching-Hasenbergl District Committee (BA) campaigned last year to bring the sculpture back.
Klaus Mai, SPD parliamentary group spokesman in the BA, noticed that it was missing when he was working on the new edition of his book about the Hasenbergl.
“The Hasenbergl was created as a settlement for refugees.
The housing shortage was even greater back then than it is today; in 1961 alone, 50,000 people were waiting for an apartment." Among them: refugees from the former Yugoslavia or war widows with children who were housed in a camp for so-called "people who are not able to rent" in the city.
In the early 1970s, the statue “Family in the Wind” by the artist J. Berchthold was erected in memory of these people.
“People remembered the family as a protective element.
The sculpture symbolizes escape, expulsion and new beginnings,” says Mai.
People are happy about the return of the sculpture
The people in the district are happy about the return of their sculpture.
When it was re-erected, some people shouted to Mai from the balcony: “How wonderful that the statue is back.”
He was also able to give some people a little help - on the artist, on the story behind “Family in the Wind”.
“I’m particularly pleased about that.
If the sculpture were to rot in an underground car park, no one would know what to do with it.
So people can enjoy it.” live