Museum Insel Hombroich

At the sugges­tion of Stiftung Insel Hombroich’s founder, the sculptor and draughtsman Erwin Heerich trans­lated his strictly geometric sculp­tures and drawings into archi­tec­tural works. This gave rise to ten ‘walk-in sculp­tures’ with exteriors made of reclaimed Dutch brick that served as buildings for Museum Insel Hombroich. Also belonging to the museum are other buildings such as the historic former resi­dences Kutscher­haus (Coach House) and Rosa Haus (Pink House), the Anatol-Atelier (Anatol Studio), the Scheune concert and event space, the Kinder-Insel Hombroich daycare centre and the Soumagne-Klause (Soumagne Hermitage).

Kirkeby-Feld

The route to the Rake­ten­sta­tion leads from Museum Insel Hombroich across a large meadow orchard, along Anatol’s stone sculp­tures, across railway tracks into an area contai­ning a total of five brick buildings that were cons­tructed between 2002 and 2009 based on designs by Danish artist Per Kirkeby: the Feld-Haus Museum of Popular Imagery, the Kahmen Coll­ec­tion and finally the Drei Kapellen. Adjoining this Kirkeby-Feld is Skulp­tu­ren­halle Neuss, followed by the Langen Foun­da­tion, which comes right before the large area around the Rake­ten­sta­tion.

Raketenstation

In 1994, Karl-Heinrich Müller acquired a former NATO missile base with a view to using it parallel to Museum Insel Hombroich. Artists and archi­tects Raimund Abraham, Erwin Heerich, Dietmar Hofmann, Oliver Kruse, Katsuhito Nishikawa, Claudio Silvestrin and Álvaro Siza were all involved in reshaping the grounds, while architect Tadao Ando designed the Langen Foun­da­tion building.