Jewelry
A jewelery shop is a company ( craft business or manufacture ) for the production of jewelry items . The name is also used synonymously for the jewelry itself. The word is derived from the French bijoutier ( goldsmith , jeweler ).
At the beginning of the 20th century , the word experienced a change in meaning in the direction of costume jewelry and industrially manufactured jewelry or for shops in which such jewelry is sold. In Austrian and Swiss parlance, it no longer refers to pure goldsmiths.
Well-known are, for example, the Bijouteriewarenfabrik Theodor Fahrner and Levinger & Bissinger from Pforzheim or the "Gablonzer Bijouterie", also known as Gablonzer Glasbijouterie or Gablonzer Industrie . The manufacture of glass jewelery has a long tradition in Gablonz in northern Bohemia , today Jablonec nad Nisou in the Czech Republic, and in the surrounding towns of the Jizera Mountains . After the expulsion in 1945/46, companies in the glass jewelry industry were also established in Kaufbeuren in Bavaria (district of Neugablonz ) and in Enns in Upper Austria.
In the years since the beginning of the 20th century, the companies from Gablonz in Bohemia transferred parts used for the production of costume jewelery to jewelery production centers - e.g. B. to Hanau or to the company Corocraft in the USA - delivered. These deliveries were successfully resumed from the new locations in Bavaria and Upper Austria after the Second World War .