German Hat Museum Lindenberg

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Building of the German Hat Museum in the former hat factory Ottmar Reich
The old hat museum Lindenberg, which was closed in 2013

The German Hat Museum Lindenberg in Lindenberg im Allgäu is a museum on the cultural history of the hat .

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The museum was opened on December 13, 2014 in connection with the centenary of the town's elevation in the listed building of the hat factory Ottmar Reich , which was closed in 1997 . The conversion of the industrial monument into a museum took two years and cost around 10  million euros , two thirds of which was financed by funds from the European Union and one third from funds from the federal government and the state government of Bavaria . The museum itself is located in the main building of the former hat factory, whereas a restaurant has been set up in the old boiler house by the 28 meter high brick chimney. The basis of the exhibits goes back to the collections of the Lindenberg municipal hat museum, which opened in 1981 and closed on October 27, 2013 . Hats, hat presses, blanks and many other exhibits on the history of hat fashion from three centuries are shown on an exhibition area of ​​almost 1000 m². At the center of the exhibition is the sculpture “Huttornado”, made up of white hat casts. The exhibition is subdivided into the three subject areas of hat making, hat fashion and the history of the city of Lindenberg as the center of hat making.

Lindenberg as the center of hat manufacturing

Since the beginning of the 17th century, straw hats have been made by home in Lindenberg . Horse traders from Italy had conveyed the technical knowledge of hat production to the village in the Allgäu. From the middle of the 17th century, hats from Lindenberg have been sold in markets. In 1755 the hat company was founded , which took over the marketing of hats for homeworkers.

At the beginning of the 19th century, around 300 Lindenberg families were active in hat making. In 1835 the first large hat factory was built in town. The so-called circular saw was made for men's fashion, and Florentine hats and bell hats were made for women . Soon enough raw materials for hat production were no longer available in the nearby region, which is why some of them had to be imported from China , as a postcard sent to Lindenberg by a local supervisor about the production of braids from the late 19th century shows.

In the first half of the 20th century, 34 different companies in Lindenberg produced a total of eight million hats per year, which earned the city the epithets or nicknames “Hat Capital of Europe” and “Little Paris”. Hats from Lindenberg were not only sold in Europe, but also in the USA and South America .

After the First World War , straw hat production began to decline as the main product, the circular saw , went out of fashion. The switch to the production of felt hats brought some compensation. After the hat became less and less important as a piece of clothing in the 1960s, most Lindenberg companies had to cease operations. Since 1997, only one hat factory in the village has been able to maintain its operations, but it also closed its doors in 2010.

Today, in addition to the German Hat Museum in Lindenberg, the annual hat day and the election of a hat queen are a reminder of the great economic importance of hat manufacture for the city.

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Web links

Commons : Hutmuseum Lindenberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German hat museum Lindenberg on the website of the city of Lindenberg im Allgäu.
  2. ↑ a b c Ingrid Grohe: German hat museum: The fashion tips of horse dealers. In: Damals , No. 7 (2015), pp. 68–69, here p. 68.
  3. ↑ a b c d hats for the world. Hat museum opens in Lindenberg. In: SWR Landesschau aktuell Baden-Württemberg from December 12, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Lindenberg. A city and its hat story (s). ( Memento from March 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Evening show of the Bavarian TV from February 5, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Ingrid Grohe: German Hat Museum: The fashion tips of the horse dealers. In: Damals , No. 7 (2015), pp. 68–69, here p. 69.
  6. ↑ Official website .
  7. ↑ Bavarian Museum Prize goes to Allgäu and Upper Bavaria. In: Die Welt from July 9, 2015.

Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '17.2 "  N , 9 ° 53' 28.6"  E