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Gläserner Fels auf dem Loreley Plateau
Loreley 7, 56348 Bornich
Architectural highlight directly at the tip of the Lorelei rock.
The Loreley rock is one of the most prominent places and an integral part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley. An internationally renowned location, it attracts many visitors due to its connection to German Rhine romanticism.
The redesign of the Loreley plateau aims to help appropriately showcase this world-famous identification point.
After the landscape architectural elements of the cultural and landscape park have already been implemented by the association community Loreley, the realization of the concept for the cultural staging of the Loreley myth has recently begun. A highlight is the "Glass Rock" right at the tip of the Loreley plateau. The new architectural uniqueness of the Loreley refers to the poem by Heinrich Heine, which states, "….The air is cool and it darkens, and the Rhine flows calmly; the summit of the mountain sparkles in the evening sunlight…"
For the construction of this highly demanding building structure, the South Tyrolean façade construction experts from FRENER & REIFER have been brought on board, a globally active company that, for example, was also responsible for the realization of the multifunctional stadium SAP Garden in Munich's Olympic Park.
The roof construction of the new Mythos Hall on the Loreley, shaped like a stylized Glass Rock, is an irregular crystal and consists of over 100 triangular glass panes, which are in turn placed on a spatial support structure made of laser-welded primary and secondary beams in steel construction, connected by milled free-form nodes. The largest individual glass pane has a side length of up to 5 meters, covering an area of 8 square meters. The entire structure weighs approximately 50 tons.




