The expression ruin (of Latin ruere fall) designation those stand remained remnants of a building or a building plant.

Originally one left ruins either to the final decay, or one referred its remainders into the construction of a new building at the same place also or however one used her as it were as quarry and a material donor for other buildings.

Antique ruins stepped with the Renaissance (around 1500) into the interest of art and culture. The eve of the French revolution the antique ruins become by Constantin Volney symbols of the political equality.

With the clearing-up and the romance also the medieval ruin at appreciation won, because it was discovered as visible certification of past times with historical meaning. Their sight offered besides an emotional holding on an idealized past in view of as a threateningly felt progressive industriellen the revolution. The Huldigung to the aesthetics of the decay comes also in the English horticulture art 18. Century to the expression, where park plants were put on as landscape productions and equipped with artificial ruins.

Numerous ruins of castles, locks or monasteries won in 19. Century a high, partial symbolic meaning, for example the waiting castle. Artists of the romance such as Caspar David Friedrich created themselves with the representation of passing ruins (monastery Eldena) imperishable fame.

Today the value of the ruins is appreciated by the monument protection. Over the outline or reconstruction of ruins there are many discussions. Thus became the woman church in Dresden, whose ruin should stop originally as memorial against the war, after the city from ruins was again established, again developed.

The Symbolhaftigkeit of ruins shows up also in the title of the national anthem of the GDR "Auferstanden from ruins"…". New ruins result also today from wars, notices and from decay of buildings due to economic changes. From the latter the sarkastische password witnesses to "ruins creates without weapons" as reproach of false politics.

Literature

• Michel Makarius: Ruins. Paris 2004.
• Ruin pictures. Hrsg. of Alia ASS ASS and others Munich 2002.

See also

• Castle
• List of the castles and locks
• Wreck
• Structural change
• Surface recycling

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