page_title: Holocaust memorial landscapes in Germany
section_title: Ravensbrück surface relief
hierarchical_section_title: Holocaust memorial landscapes in Germany / Case studies / Ravensbrück surface relief
caption_attribution_description: English: With permission by the legal sucessor Mark Lammert. Deutsch: Mit Erlaubnis des Rechtsnachfolgers Mark Lammert.
context_page_description: Holocaust memorial landscapes in Germany encompass a large group of commemorative works dealing with the outdoor built environment. Most often these memorials attempt to keep the memory of Holocaust victims alive through dissemination of this memory to the public.
context_section_description: More recent attempts at memorializing concentration camp landscapes have taken different approaches.  In the 1990s an international design competition was held for the redesign of the landscape at the former women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück, also in Germany; the competition was won by the German practice of Burger + Tischer.  On this site, where many of the original structures were demolished and which was later occupied by the Soviet army, little of the original layout remained intact.  The winning scheme proposed an excavation of the site by volunteers, gradually creating a surface relief.  This process would expose old foundations and the layout of the camp, whose borders would then be reforested to accentuate the boundaries.  At the section of the site where youth were detained, a field of flowers acts as a memorial where no other visual traces remain.
caption: Will Lammert, Memorial Tragende (Woman with Burden) for the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp memorial site, 1959
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