Der Beton-Tresor
8. Dezember 2011 | 
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Ein jeder kennt aus seiner Kindheit bestimmt noch Dagobert Duck: Der geizige Milliardär lebt in einem abgeschotteten Geldspeicher, in den er niemand hereinlässt, außer, er hat wirklich gute Gründe, etwa einen Plan, wie Herr Duck noch reicher werden könnte. Aber wer hätte gedacht, dass es das auch im echten Leben gibt? In einer kleinen Ortschaft bei Warschau in Polen lebt ein Unbekannter seit Jahren in einen großen, grauen Kobus aus Beton, der verblüffend an Dagobert Ducks Geldspeicher erinnert. Es gibt keinerlei Fenster, keine Verzierungen: Lediglich ein Betonwürfel. Was für ein Geheimnis steckt hinter den dicklen Mauern?
Klingeldschilder sucht man vergebens. Hat man den Vorhof des Gebäudes betreten, ist man zunächst gefangen: Man kann weder zurück, das verhindern die hohen Mauern um den Betonklotz. Aber auch nicht vor, denn dort ist die geschlossene Beton-Faßade. Erst wenn der Besucher in dieser Sicherheitszone ist, öffnet sich mit etwas Glück eine verborgene Tür in der grauen Faßade. Nicht nur dazu lassen sich die Flanken des Betonwürfels verschieben, so lassen sich auch ganz schnell Fenster zaubern und Sonnenlicht in den schwarzen Koloss leiten.
Architekt Robert Konieczny musste bei dem Auftrag einige Besonderheiten beachten: Etwa gibt es eine Zugbrücke an der Ostseite des Hauses, die vom Obergeschoss zu einem Pavillon im Garten führt, wo der eigene Swimmingpool untergebracht ist. Natürlich ist es quasi unmöglich, große Elemente aus Beton zu verschieben: Daher wurden neben Beton auch leichte Stahl-Konstruktionen verwendet, die dann mit grau gefärbten Sperrholzplatten verkeidet wurden. So bekommt man den Eindruck, wirlklich nur Beton vor sich zu haben.
Doch wer wirklich hier lebt und warum man sich in so einen Hochsicherheitstrakt Zuhause fühlt, werden wir wohl niemals klären. Wilde Geschichten und Gerüchte gibt es natürlich Zuhauf, etwa, dass hier eine ehemalige Größe des Militärs oder der NASA leben soll. Die Beantwortung dieser Frage ist also ganz unserer Fantasie überlassen.
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![pmorgan hat ein Foto gepostet: "Armand Vaillancourt is a Québécois sculptor, painter and performance artist born on September 3, 1929, in the city of Black Lake, Quebec, Canada."In 1971, a publicly commissioned fountain entitled Québec libre! was installed (San Francisco, United States). One of his best known sculptures, Québec libre! is representative of the relationship between Vaillancourt's art and his political convictions. It is a huge concrete fountain, 200 feet long, 140 feet wide and 36 feet high sitting in the city's financial district at the Embarcadero Center. The night before its inauguration, Vaillancourt inscribed Québec libre! in red letters, to note his undying support for the Quebec sovereignty movement and more largely, his support for the freedom of all people. The following day, seeing that the city's employees erased the inscription, he jumped on the sculpture to reinscribe the sentence many times."Some years later, the fountain became the object of a polemic involving U2's singer Bono. During a free concert, Bono climbed the sculpture to write Rock & Roll stops the traffic, referring to the power of rock.[2] 20,000 people were in fact in attendance and blocked some of the neighbouring streets. Reacting to the act, the city's mayor declared that she deplored the sculpture's vandalism and that this kind of act could be punishable by a fine and/or imprisonment. Vaillancourt was then contacted to learn if he supported the gesture, which he answered by going to U2's concert in Oakland the following day, where he wrote "Stop the madness" on the stage, in front of 70,000 people. He defended Bono's gesture, after a speech on injustice, declaring that graffiti is a necessary evil as young people do not generally have the same access to newspapers, and media in general, as politicians do to express themselves.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Vaillancourt(the sculpture seems to have been renamed the Vaillancourt Fountain)](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/6907299869_90b5012410.jpg "pmorgan hat ein Foto gepostet: \"Armand Vaillancourt is a Québécois sculptor, painter and performance artist born on September 3, 1929, in the city of Black Lake, Quebec, Canada.\"In 1971, a publicly commissioned fountain entitled Québec libre! was installed (San Francisco, United States). One of his best known sculptures, Québec libre! is representative of the relationship between Vaillancourt's art and his political convictions. It is a huge concrete fountain, 200 feet long, 140 feet wide and 36 feet high sitting in the city's financial district at the Embarcadero Center. The night before its inauguration, Vaillancourt inscribed Québec libre! in red letters, to note his undying support for the Quebec sovereignty movement and more largely, his support for the freedom of all people. The following day, seeing that the city's employees erased the inscription, he jumped on the sculpture to reinscribe the sentence many times.\"Some years later, the fountain became the object of a polemic involving U2's singer Bono. During a free concert, Bono climbed the sculpture to write Rock & Roll stops the traffic, referring to the power of rock.[2] 20,000 people were in fact in attendance and blocked some of the neighbouring streets. Reacting to the act, the city's mayor declared that she deplored the sculpture's vandalism and that this kind of act could be punishable by a fine and/or imprisonment. Vaillancourt was then contacted to learn if he supported the gesture, which he answered by going to U2's concert in Oakland the following day, where he wrote \"Stop the madness\" on the stage, in front of 70,000 people. He defended Bono's gesture, after a speech on injustice, declaring that graffiti is a necessary evil as young people do not generally have the same access to newspapers, and media in general, as politicians do to express themselves.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Vaillancourt(the sculpture seems to have been renamed the Vaillancourt Fountain)")
