German watch museum Glashütte
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The German Clock Museum Glashütte is a clock museum in Glashütte in Saxony , in Schillerstraße 3a.
In addition to pocket watches , precision pendulum clocks and wristwatches , the collection of the German Clock Museum Glashütte also includes marine chronometers , gear models, historical tools and work equipment from watchmakers from bygone eras. The exhibits include rarities like a pocket watch with key wind from the founding years of Glashütte watch industry, a pocket watch with self-winding, dated 1900, a pocket watch with minute striking mechanism and stopper of 1920, an aviator wristwatch from 1943, a precision clock with gravity (ball ) Escapement from 1885 and a rare tourbillon pocket watch from 1925.
history
The technical cabinet: forerunner of the watch museum
Already after the end of the Second World War, the Glashütte watchmakers recognized the importance of watchmaking and the passing on of this cultural heritage. Despite the difficult financial conditions, the then head of technical documentation and invention, Adolf Görgel, and the chief designer Ernst Frankenstein under the former director of VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe (GUB), Siegfried Bellmann, managed to use the modest means of the cultural and social fund to make one of the the most important technical collections of Glashütte watchmaking history.
The technical cabinet was still stored in the rooms of the Glashütte cultural center until 1994. The workshop and sales documents of A. Lange & Söhne - documented from the year 1867 - and the two handwritten student directories of the German Watchmaking School Glashütte (from May 1878 to April 1928 and from May 1928 to 1951) belonged to this archive.
The creation of the German Clock Museum
The public only gained access to the collection with the privatization and the ensuing unbundling of the Glashütte watch companies. Until 1994 the exhibition was located in the Glashütte cultural center, which is now used by SUG (Saxon Clock Technology GmbH). The new domicile of the clock museum was built in the north wing of the main building of Glashütte Original at Altenberger Straße 1 . The reconstruction of the building made another move indispensable: The exhibition moved into the rooms of the former GUB data processing facility in the adjacent building behind.
In the first few years, the watch museum experienced two severe blows of fate: On October 21, 1990 u. a. the torpedo boat chronometer No. 527 from A. Lange & Söhne / Glashütte i. Sa., a showcase with unrest from Richard Grießbach and the chronometer No. 71 by J. Raabe stolen from the Glashütte watch museum.
The second catastrophe followed on August 12, 2002: triggered by the heavy rainfall that led to the Elbe flood in Saxony in 2002 , the Prießnitztal dam above Glashüttes broke at 4:30 p.m. Just 30 minutes later, a roller of around 50,000 cubic meters made of water and mud moved through the glassworks, tearing, among other things, heavy vehicles and rubble containers with it. At the train station, the flood hit the Müglitz , which was mostly high water at this time of year , and its extent multiplied in a very short time.
The people in Glashütte, the watch industry and the German Watch Museum were hit hard by this flood of the century: Many parts of the script archive fell victim to the flood. Even if some of the originals are lost forever, the help of the citizens of Glashütte, the collectors of Glashütte watches and many Saxons made it possible to compile at least the data believed to be lost almost completely from countless private sources. The material damage in Glashütte could also be compensated thanks to numerous donation campaigns. On February 1, 2008, the Glashütte Watch Museum closed its doors to prepare for the move to the reconstructed building of the former watchmaking school.
The new German Watch Museum Glashütte - Nicolas G. Hayek
On December 12, 2006, the first construction work began on the traditional building of the German Watchmaking School Glashütte for the new German Watch Museum Glashütte - Nicolas G. Hayek , named after the Swiss entrepreneur and Swatch founder Nicolas Hayek . The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on June 28, 2007. After the upper floor had been demolished and a new roof structure was completed, the historical state of the building was largely restored. The new museum opened on May 22, 2008. Within a short period of time, the museum has developed into a tourist attraction. In October 2010, the 100,000. Visitors are welcomed, in 2010 the museum had a total of about 42,000 visitors.
literature
- German Clock Museum Glashütte Foundation - Nicolas G. Hayek , Herbert Dittrich, Nicole Weißhaar (eds.): The measurement of the moment. How the exact time came to Glashütte ., Sandstein, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-940319-37-1
- Stiftung Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Glashütte - Nicolas G. Hayek, Michael Kicherer, Sven Riesel (eds.): To wear a watch on your body ...: 500 years of a new sense of time ., Sandstein, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-942422-07- 9
Web links
- Watch-Wiki: Report from the opening ceremony of the new German Watch Museum Glashütte
- Photo gallery
- German watch museum Glashütte
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Glashütte Watch Museum welcomes its 100,000th visitor , Sächsische Zeitung (Dippoldiswalde edition) on October 5, 2010
- ^ Taster course in the watch museum , Sächsische Zeitung (Pirna edition) from January 25, 2011
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 7.1 ″ N , 13 ° 46 ′ 46.1 ″ E