The realisation within the framework of the Internationales Steinbildhauer Symposion is one of the many works Adolf Ryszka has made at such international sculpture plein-airs. Here, the hilltop location of his sculpture adds to the monumentalism of his work, and it stands out among the works of artists from other countries as being almost monumental in character.

The idea for the international stone sculpture symposia was inspired by the Austrian sculptor Karl Prantl, while in Sankt Wendel the "Sculpture Road" was initiated by the local artist Leo Kornbrust, as part of a major European project for an imaginary series of artworks dedicated to Otto Freundlich, the artist murdered by the Nazis, who had proposed a similar pacifist idea of a sculpture road linking people between Moscow and Paris in the 1930s. The 1930s.

In Sankt Wendel, 57 works by artists from 12 countries have been created along a path stretching across the fields over a length of about 25 km, with the latest added in 2010. Ryszka's work was one of the first, set up in the summer of 1971, when 11 artists worked here in plein air. The form of his sculpture, as well as its material, remain in an organic - literally - relationship with the surroundings, as in none of the works by the other symposium artists. The local red sandstone blends colourfully with the red earth (especially when the fields are ploughed here), yet at the same time reveals its more uninspired potential. The shape, squat but bursting with a cleft in the middle, alludes to the gentle and majestic hills of Saarland and the dirt roads that run past. The stone standing in the middle of the road 'speaks of a boundary closed, overcome with difficulty, against nature, on the other side succumbing to destruction. A shocking monument to a mindless prohibition, stopping the wandering man, crossing out his inherent freedom" (Bogusław Mansfeld 2007). The sculpture stands a few dozen metres from the symposium car park, where information boards present the history of the whole project, the names of the sculptors and a map of the foundation.