Art and Culture - Monuments and Art in Bornheim

Anyone who comes to Bornheim today is welcomed at every entrance to the village by a work of art. Whether it is the “Rühmer” created by the artist Roland Mewes in Dammgasse, the stork’s nest designed by Karl-Heinz Zwick from the direction of Dammheim, or the “Himmels-Tor-Haus,” also built by Mr. Zwick, at the junction of the B 272 towards Bornheim.

This appreciation of art continues along the way through Bornheim and can be admired at many places in the village. Below the stork’s nest, there is the designed village coat of arms made of sandstone, or the artistically designed street lamps by the artist Roland Mewes. Through individual motifs, these indicate which craft or profession was practiced at that location.

In the center of the village lies the Saubrunnen, created by Gernot Rumpf, an unusually cheerful and richly detailed fountain installation that has now become known far beyond the borders of Bornheim. A few steps further on, one encounters the Wachthäusel, which in itself represents a cultural heritage site. It is guarded by an iron “watchman,” intended to recall the former Bornheim night watchman.

At the next corner of Hauptstraße stands the inn Lehrer Lämpel with Max-und-Moritz-Platz and the Lehrer-Lämpel fountain. This former school building was excellently renovated and converted into a restaurant. The bronze figures were also created by Gernot Rumpf, based on a story by Wilhelm Busch.

If we now continue walking, we pass the enclosure of the kindergarten. Ceramic mosaics created by the artist Petra Goldmann are attached to the wall. These depict animals that were once common in the village.

Immediately afterwards, the sandstone-carved Harlequin with his dog, created by the artist Daniel Moriz Lehr, greets visitors. There is also an interesting story about this in the village chronicle.

At the corner of Wiesenstraße and Hauptstraße, we see the Hirtenplatz created by the artist couple Helga Sauvageot and Wieslaw Pietron. This life-size bronze sculpture shows three goats and their shepherd and recalls the many goats that were once kept in Bornheim and driven past this place to the meadows.

Those who look closely can discover small storks on the lanterns from Dammgasse to the stork center built in 2006. On small signs, they indicate the distance to the stork center.

At the end of Dammgasse, directly in front of the sports hall, stands the sculpture “Dynamik” by the artist Helga Sauvageot. A 180-kilogram bronze sprinter, dynamically running over stone steles, stands for vitality, energy, and joy of life.
In the cemetery stands the “cross within a cross” created by Sauvageot/Pietron, a modern metal sculpture that forms the spiritual center of the cemetery.

The war memorial made of sandstone commemorates the 27 victims from Bornheim of the First and Second World Wars.

The most recent work is also located in the Bornheim cemetery and shows the sculpture “Portal.” This work of art by Pascale Feitner was inaugurated in 2024 and presents a walk-through arch in the form of a stork as a symbol of new beginnings.

“Art should not be reserved for cities,” said Dieter Hörner (1941–2014), mayor of Bornheim from 1974 to 1994 and from 2004 to 2009. He was the initiator of numerous art projects in public space.