Former Women Concentration Camp Ravensbrück | First Stage of Construction
 
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The first section of our competition design was realized from fall 1999 to summer 2001 in the northern part of the former prisoner camp (main camp), thus making the area of the prisoner barracks accessible to the public for the first time. The newly designed ground relief traces the outlines of the barracks and makes the structure of the concentration camp comprehensible to visitors. By removing buildings, protective floors coatings, and vegetation from the period after 1945, and by adding a dark gray covering of cinders, a large, to a great extent empty space was created which emphasizes the few remaining historical elements in a striking way and simultaneously makes apparent the absence of the traces which have disappeared.

The realization was only possible due to a complex model of financing which combined the free deployment of army units, work creation programs (ABM), and support funds for arms conversion from the EU. Several of the important design ideas, such as the cinder hill, were thus not able to be realized for the present.



Realisation first stage | 1999 - 2001
Costs: 2 600 000 DM ; 80.000 qm

Team Tischer / Oswalt, Homepage Stefan Tischer
With: Ipolita Nicotera, Jörg Croquis, Werner Noack
Archeologist: Matthias Antkowiak