Nuremberg railway station

Stadt Nürnberg/Nürnberger Nachrichten, 26th May 2003
“I was bowled over by the positive feedback and the interest displayed by the 130,000-odd rail passengers we receive each day”, said Karl-Heinz Ferstl, manager of the railway station in Nuremberg, “It far exceeded our expectations. It‘s artworks like these that can really boost the attractiveness of our railway stations”.
For this reason, the Central Hall of the station is now adorned by a second work by the Fürth artist Iris Rauh. The previous year, the 39-year-old decorated two columns in the entrance to the station’s Market Hall with tiles, marble, mirrors and Murano glass.
The new mosaic mural entitled “Bewegende Zeitreise” (Time travel in motion) - pictured - depicts the history of Germany’s railways from 1935 to the present day, and contains some one million coloured stone pieces.

Rauh began the work in February and immediately provoked a keen interest from travellers and visitors to the station.


primaSonntag,  9th May 2004
“Zugkunft” (wordplay on “Zug” - train - and “Zukunft” - future) is the title of the latest work by Fürth’s creative “Fragment artist” Iris Rauh. The Fürth native is currently working on the third of her much-observed large-scale mosaic projects in Nuremberg railway station .


Mittelbayerische Zeitung Neumarkter Tagblatt, July 2004
The dream of Nuremberg’s “Art Railway Station” - Iris Rauh has completed her third large-scale mosaic work, incorporating some 300,000 stone pieces.
The mosaic artist from Fürth has made “Zugkunft - Peters Traum” (Peter’s Dream) a reality on the first floor of Nuremberg railway station’s East Hall with around 300,000 fragments of stone, tile, marble and glass.

The third mosaic, preceded by “Verbindung der Nationen” on the columns of the Market Hall and “Bewegende Zeitreise”, which covers two storeys in the Central Hall, was unveiled to the public in an opening ceremony on Saturday.

“Peters Traum” displays several traits that set it apart from its predecessors: it is more colourful, more technically advanced, more minute in its detail and more three-dimensional.