The Pit (Breitenbrunn am Neusiedlersee, Austria) is a land art project by Peter Noever in Breitenbrunn which has existed since the early 1970s and in 2019 was placed under monument protection by the Austrian Federal Office BDA. [1]
The Pit (Breitenbrunn am Neusiedlersee, Austria) is a land art project by Peter Noever in Breitenbrunn which has existed since the early 1970s and in 2019 was placed under monument protection by the Austrian Federal Office BDA. [1]
The starting point of the Land Art project "The Pit" is the more than 200-year-old, sandstone-built wine cellar. The northern end of the basement vault was uncovered, the basement wall was moved inwards, so that a vaulted, wind-protected space opens to the north, with benches and tables made of sandstone—from the connected quarry. This is followed by "The Pit" (8 meters in diameter at the bottom and 20 meters in diameter at the top of the funnel). The slope of the grassy slope is more than 50 degrees. In the hermetic but towards the sky wide open grass cone, one can sit in the open on sandstone blocks.
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