Bitterfeld Arch

It is an architectural sculpture designed by the Frankfurt artist Claus Bury and situated on the Bitterfelder Berg an ancient sand dune.

It sits above the newly created park and lake landscape of the Bitterfeld region that have been built over the remains of brown coal open pit mines.

It is meant to symbolize not only the region's renewal after its departure from heavy industry, but also the unity of the city which was created by the merger of the towns Bitterfeld and Wolfen and the municipalities Greppin, Holzweißig and Thalheim on 1 July 2007.

Each of the three arches consists of two diagonally opposed, pointed-oval wing shapes, with eight perpendicular struts spanning them.

All ramps are stepless, and have by metal railings with narrow evenly spaced balusters for safety.