Everyday people in the Münsterland

They are reading a book, sitting relaxed on a bench, enjoying the sun or even swimming in the water - from a distance, a viewer might think they are real people. But when you get closer, it becomes clear: they are life-size concrete sculptures. The so-called everyday people. Why are they called that? They are an artistic staging of the everyday and show life in its purest and most unadorned form.

Behind the sculptures are the artists Christel and Laura Lechner. Not only are they mother and daughter, but they also work together at the idyllically located Atelier Lechnerhof near Witten. But you can discover their works all over Germany. In Münsterland, the everyday people have been popular figures for over a decade.

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Everyday People at Nordkirchen Castle
© Münsterland e.V./Philipp Fölting
Who is human and who is sculpture?
© Münsterland e.V./Philipp Fölting
An everyday scene: a man waiting for the bus
© Münsterland e.V./Philipp Fölting
The everyday people can be found everywhere in Nordkirchen
© Münsterland e.V./Philipp Fölting
Ponies can also be found as figures
© Münsterland e.V./Philipp Fölting
Here we celebrate: Nordkirchen turns 1000 years old
© Münsterland e.V./Philipp Fölting

Everyday people enchanted Nordkirchen

In 2022, the town of Nordkirchen celebrated its 1,000th anniversary - and the popular everyday people were there! For several months, they could be found everywhere in the castle community. In total, more than 50 sculptures were placed at 15 different locations.

In the palace and park grounds of the "Westphalian Versailles" there were no less than four installations of the Everyday People. In the middle of the palace park, they sat at the festively laid summer table, among other places. Other everyday people were to be found in the town centre of Nordkirchen. They invited us to smile and sometimes to think. Of course, the sculptures were also present in the neighbouring districts of Capelle and Südkirchen.

Nordkirchen celebrates its 1,000th town anniversary and the everyday people along with it
© Münsterland e.V./Philipp Fölting
In the city centre, the everyday people are also represented
© Münsterland e.V./Philipp Fölting
Here the everyday people even sail on the water
© Münsterland e.V./Philipp Fölting

Came to stay

The Everyday People are no longer unknown to many people from Münsterland. The exhibition has already visited the town of Telgte three times, most recently in 2020. The municipality liked the artworks so much that some Everyday People have moved there permanently. In 2021, a nun made of concrete and a group of three from the production "Ernst des Lebens" (The Seriousness of Life) have found their home in Telgte. In the district of Westbevern, "Anton the Postman" and "Fräulein Änne, the Teacher" look forward to visitors on Brinker Platz in Vadrup.

In Münster-Hiltrup, several everyday people are also always to be found. Every day they put a smile on the faces of passing citizens. On Marktallee, for example, you will find two construction workers, at Osttor a concrete man is looking into the distance. I wonder what he is looking for.

Miss Änne, the teacher
© Münsterland e.V.
This everyday person was on show in Telgte in 2020
© Münsterland e.V.
Staging "The Seriousness of Life
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