15. Artikel der Menschenrechte

The 15th Article of Human Rights stands in Nuremberg, between the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and the medieval city wall. It forms part of Dani Karavan’s Way of Human Rights, an outdoor sculpture linking Kornmarkt Street with the historic fortifications. White-concrete pillars, a gate, and a columnar oak shape the passage through this open-air installation. Each pillar rises eight metres and carries an article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in German and another language.

A twelve-person jury selected Karavan’s design through a Germanisches Nationalmuseum competition in 1988. The completed work contains twenty-seven round pillars, two partly buried pillars, and one oak, making thirty pillars altogether. A northern gate echoes the medieval city gate at the street’s southern end. Monastery remains, Sep Ruf buildings from the 1950s and 1960s, and a glass entrance surround the route. Nuremberg received the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education in 2001, with the Way of Human Rights specifically recognised. The International Nuremberg Human Rights Award is presented here every two years, connecting the sculpture with continuing human-rights work.