Verbindende Hände, Bronze monument in Gurk, Austria

This memorial comprises eight pairs of bronze hands joined in handshakes and arranged between marble elements on a natural stone base. The entire composition sits near Gurk Cathedral, positioned along a local cycling route.

Robert Paulitsch privately commissioned and pre-financed the monument in 2009, a year after Jörg Haider's death; public funds later contributed, with material costs of about 50,000 euros. It first stood in Klagenfurt in front of the Bergbaumuseum until 12 January 2011, then was moved to Gurk. Bishop Alois Schwarz and SPÖ leader Peter Kaiser protested the Gurk site; it was unveiled before Gurk Cathedral on 25 January 2011 after a memorial mass for Haider.

The monument is known locally as Haiders Hände, Haider's Hands, after Jörg Haider, the Carinthian governor who died in 2008. It was unveiled in front of Gurk Cathedral on 25 January 2011, after a memorial mass for Haider was held there. The bishop of Gurk, Alois Schwarz, and SPÖ leader Peter Kaiser had protested against this location.

The monument stands in front of Gurk Cathedral, where it was unveiled on 25 January 2011 after a memorial mass for Jörg Haider. It is a private memorial owned by Robert Paulitsch; in 2013 the state of Carinthia stopped maintaining and cleaning it, so the bronze and marble may show weathering.

The hands were cast by Kazakh artist Waldemar Schröder at the Strassacker foundry in Stuttgart, who called the artistic concept "not particularly interesting or novel". The marble steles were designed by stonemason and BZÖ official Gunter Höher. Robert Paulitsch commissioned and pre-financed the monument privately in 2009 and still considers himself its owner.