CF lathe

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CF lathe
legal form
founding 1809
Seat Grünhainichen , Germany
Branch Toys
Website www.drechsel-cf.de

The Spielwarenverlag CF Drechsel was founded in 1809 by Christian Friedrich Drechsel in Grünhainichen and is a company that still exists today. It was the first company in the Saxon Ore Mountains to offer reform toys created by artists at the turn of the century .

history

In 1840 the company is mentioned in the Leipzig mess address book as an exhibitor of wooden and toys on Reichsstraße in Grünhainichen. Traditional toys from the Ore Mountains wood and toy industry were on offer . During this time, Grünhainichen developed into a center of the traditional Erzgebirge toy production. In 1879 its own state toy and trade school was set up. In 1884 Albert Wendt became a teacher at the Grünhainichener Gewerbeschule and later its rector. Albert Wendt was the father of Margarete Wendt , who later became the founder of Wendt & Kühn .

In the course of the reform movement in the arts and crafts around the turn of the century, the Kleinhempel siblings ( Fritz , Erich and Gertrud Kleinhempel ) had designs for reform toys implemented in Albert Wendt's workshops. CF Drechsel took over the distribution and marketing of these toys from 1904. CF Drechsel, together with the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau and the workshops for German household goods by Theophil Müller, was one of the first companies to offer artistically designed reform toys. Other toy designs in the CF Drechsel range came from folklorist Oskar Seyffert , as well as the Dresden architects Karl Schmidt, Heinrich Tscharmann and Ernst Kühn .

Around 1906 a new business building was built at Chemnitzer Straße 56, in which the company headquarters of CF Drechsel is still located today.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urs Latus: Dresden reform toys . In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Kunstgewerbemuseum (Hrsg.): Art Nouveau in Dresden. Departure into the modern age . Edition Minerva, 1999, p. 122 .
  2. ↑ CF Drechsel company history. Retrieved January 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Sally Schöne: CF Drechsel . In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Kunstgewerbemuseum (Hrsg.): Art Nouveau in Dresden. Departure into the modern age . Edition Minerva, 1999, p. 429 .

Web links

  • CFturning. Official website. Retrieved January 11, 2016 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '59.4 "  N , 13 ° 9' 5.3"  E