Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains
The Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains is located in the former palace of the Fronfeste Purschenstein in Neuhausen / Erzgeb.
The museum shows, among other glassworks from the period of Georgius Agricola, plus a workshop facility and further correspondence and material witnesses of the Erzgebirge glassmaking as well as the history of Neuhausen and the castle Purschensteins. In addition, show demonstrations take place from glassblowers.
Museum
The glassworks museum in Neuhausen is home to testimonies of former glassmaking in the Ore Mountains, which extend into the settlement around 1200 back and include both work from the Saxon Erzgebirge as Bohemian.
The significance of these glassworks far beyond the Erzgebirge room addition. This is also true for the 1488 founded, former Neuhausener Glashütte Heidel Bach, who worked until about 1827 and is represented in the exhibition.
In the glassworks Heidelbach also high-quality glass work was carried out in addition to simple use of glass and plate glass. Thus, the glassworks was one of the purveyor to the Saxon electors and other noble houses. For the Purschensteiner chapel were to be seen in the exhibition " The Four Evangelists " manufactured four -painted with enamel circular glass discs of the year in 1612.
The glassworks museum gives an almost extinct traditional industry. The exhibition shows the diversity of the material glass and its possibilities in color, shape and finish. On display are functional glasses from historical times and special pieces, such as the round glass of 1612 and over one hundred years old, made of glass candlesticks erzgebirgische spiders.
History
In the early 1990s, built the castle in 1750 Fronfeste Purschenstein was declared a National Monument. Through the funding is held by the community center could be renovated and converted into a museum together with the Erzgebirgszweigverein. In May 1996, the " Erzgebirge Glassworks Museum " opened with the first exhibition. It contained pieces of the 800 -year-old glassmaking history of the Ore Mountains.
In the exhibition, particularly the history of the glassworks Heidelbach reflects 1488-1827 resist. Meanwhile, the exhibition has been extended with a replica glass melting furnace in an adjacent building, which is to make the production of glass vessels clearly.
In May 2006, the anniversary was celebrated with a weekend of celebrations. Since that time there on holidays Schaublasvorführungen. This replicas like fly, Goethe barometer or prunted be made . Prunts are typical glass ornaments that shimmer and color should imitate precious stones and increase handling strength. Such glasses were used in the late Middle Ages in higher circles. The glass painting and engraving can be seen on show days at the museum.
The unique in its kind museum in the Ore Mountains is supervised by a conveyor Community Erzgebirgszweigverein Neuhausen. On 12 and 13 August 2002 flood of the century, this museum building situated on a mountain had been damaged by the flood waters of the overflowing pond and adjacent castle thanks to a fundraising campaign has been renovated and reopened.
2010/11 the need of repair wood shingle roof of the museum is completely renovated with state funds. The construction project was previously postponed for several years repeatedly because of uncertain funding.
Glass making
The regional or in the Erzgebirge art of glassmaking and the Glasveredelns once stood in great prosperity. In the Middle Ages, more than 50 forest glassworks found in the Saxon and Bohemian Erzgebirge. This resulted in a wealth of regional types of glass and glass colors.
By minerals that were already present in the raw materials, they reached only a green colored glass. » Decolorizing agent called earlier glassmakers soap " neutralized unwanted color cast. Additives of the mineral pyrolusite or arsenic, the glass can appear colorless. In reverse, but also emerged as coloring of the glass, especially in cobalt - blue, violet, red, green or white.
The end of the glassworks Heidelbach about 1827 are primarily due to the outdated iron and steel industry, the strong competition of Czech glass at this time. Mining, metallurgy and also the wood art " Seiffen toy angle" took the glass makers and glass works by increasing fuelwood shortage, which was needed in large quantities, the livelihood. The industrialization of glass making began in the Ore Mountains around 1880. Significant glassworks were in the early industrial age in Carl Field, Zwickau and fire -Erbisdorf. Upon deletion of the glass furnaces Carl field in 1979, the Glashüttengschichte ended in the Saxon Erzgebirge.