Debris Ball Pasewalk–Police–Phoenix

The Pasewalk–Police–Phoenix debris ball is a work of art by the Swiss-Canadian installation artist Ernest Daetwyler in Pasewalk in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
The sphere was a cross-border project between the city of Pasewalk and the Polish partner municipality of Police. Daetwyler processed around 30 tons of debris from the Second World War into a contemporary sculpture in the form of a sphere with a diameter of around 5.5 meters. He received the support of students from Berlin universities as well as the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt. They recovered, cleaned and transported debris from the two cities, which had been severely destroyed in the war. The rubble from Pasewalk, for example, came from the district of Friedberg, where Pasewalk farmers unloaded the rubble in 1945 with the help of horse-drawn carts and which was still there in 2007. They first erected a steel scaffolding on a concrete foundation and assembled the recovered parts into a work of art within seven months. The aim was to create a "symbol of transformation and renewal".

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