The Pit (Breitenbrunn am Neusiedlersee, Austria)



The Pit (Breitenbrunn am Neusiedlersee, Austria) is a land art project by Peter Noever in Breitenbrunn which has existed since the early 1970s and in 2019 was placed under monument protection by the Austrian Federal Office BDA.

Architecture
The starting point of the Land Art project "The Pit" is the more than 200-year-old, sandstone-built wine cellar. The northern end of the basement vault was uncovered, the basement wall was moved inwards, so that a vaulted, wind-protected space opens to the north, with benches and tables made of sandstone—from the connected quarry. This is followed by "The Pit" (8 meters in diameter at the bottom and 20 meters in diameter at the top of the funnel). The slope of the grassy slope is more than 50 degrees. In the hermetic but towards the sky wide open grass cone, one can sit in the open on sandstone blocks.

Projects, site map

 * 1) Wine cellar
 * 2) The Pit
 * 3) Quarry Passageway
 * 4) Wing-Stairs
 * 5) Quarry-Stair Construction
 * 6) Toilet with concrete plateau
 * 7) Concrete Fragment Rudolph M. Schindler
 * 8) 36 concrete cubes
 * 9) Cube XXXVII
 * 10) Airstream trailer
 * 11) Sitting Pits
 * 12) The Tower, project, 1990
 * 13) House with Boat, walk-in sculpture, project 2017/2019
 * 14) The Resurrection, project by Sergej Bugaev Afrika and Peter Noever, 2018

Exhibitions

 * "Obsessions In_Focus“, April–August 2019, SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles.
 * "MOEBEL UND", 2018, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria.

Literature

 * Albert Kirchengast, Norbert Lehner: Archaische Moderne – Elf Bauten im Burgenland 1960–2010 Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-906027-70-8
 * James Wines, „De-Architecture“, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, 1987, ISBN 0-8478-0861-0.
 * Fritz Damerius, „Breitenbrunn“, Autorenverlag Gerbergruben, 7100 Neusiedl, 2003, ISBN 3-902119-03-9.
 * James Wines, „Grüne Architektur“, edited by Philip Jodidio, Taschen Verlag, Köln, London, Paris, New York, ISBN 3-8228-0811-3.
 * „Topos“ 11, European Landscape Magazine, Verlag Callwey, Munich, June 1995, . ISBN 3-7667-1188-1.
 * „Parnass“, Kunstmagazin 03 / 2005, Parnass Verlag, Vienna
 * „Interni“, La Rivist dell’Arredamento, 462 / Luglio, 1996, Mondadori Pubblicitá, Milan
 * „Wohn! Design“, Internationales Magazin für Architektur und Design, July / August 2001, Trend Medien Verlag, Stuttgart
 * „Archetype“, Architecture Magazine, Startling Papers Publishing Partnership; San Francisco CA, Volime I, Summer 1979 Number II
 * Peter Noever, „Die Grube, The Pit“, exhibition catalog, published by Aedes. Galerie und Architekturforum, Berlin, 1991, ISBN 3-901127-01-1
 * Peter Noever, „Upstairs Down“, The Pit. The Tower. The Terrace Plateau, Exhibition Catalog, Published by Shirin Neshat and Kyong Park
 * StoreFront for Art and Architecture, New York, 1994, ISBN 3-901127-04-6