Halloren Chocolate Museum

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Entrance to the chocolate shop museum

The Halloren Chocolate Museum is a museum in Halle (Saale) that shows an exhibition on the history of chocolate from earlier to the present and information on the company history of the Halloren chocolate factory . You can also see the production through a panoramic window. This is possible because the museum is located in the Halloren chocolate factory building complex.

history

The museum was founded in 2002 and has been expanding ever since. For example, a cinema area was added and the Chocolate Room was opened on November 25, 2004. In 2007 the museum was enlarged to 750 m² and today has 900 m² of exhibition space. In September 2012, was issuing a relief of the city Halle (Saale) from chocolate added.

Chocolate room

Chocolate room

A special feature of the Chocolate Museum is the approx. 17 m² chocolate room, which is a complex piece of chocolate art that is unique in Germany.

It was first presented in 2004 and underwent the first major change in 2007. After another 10 years, the previous chocolate room in Biedermeier style was given a completely new design in March 2017. The internationally renowned Austrian chocolate artist Gerhard Petzl was won over as project manager, who was supported by Claudia Heimann's in-house chocolatiers . The production from approx. 1.5 tons of chocolate took approx. 5000 working hours.

After the focus was previously placed on the founding year 1804, the redesign now refers to the period 1896-1900, shortly after the newly built chocolate factory in Delitzscher Strasse went into operation. It shows the study of Ernst David, who in 1879 took over the company from his father with his brother. The essential element of the room is the life-size chocolate sculpture by Ernst David on the desk. Almost 400 kg of chocolate were used for the figure, desk and chair ensemble. Renovated and reworked projects are the harpsichord , the bookshelf, the cat on the pillow. Other new chocolate works of art are the dining table, a couch, a fireplace with fire and a carpet. Large and small new objects such as chocolate pictures, dishes, books and documents complete the chocolate artwork.

Chocolate city relief

View of the exhibition with the city relief (left)

In the Halloren Chocolate Museum there is a relief that depicts downtown areas of the city of Halle (Saale) in 1952. The Halloren chocolate factory has a special relationship to the year 1952, as it is the year of birth of the well-known Halloren chocolate factory product "Halloren balls". The relief was presented in September 2012, 60 years after the invention of the "Halloren balls". The production took place during the summer break of 2012.

The base of the material consists of milk chocolate and is around three square meters in size. This area offers enough space to display the more than 200 individual parts that show the floor plans of the buildings in Halle's inner city. The total weight of the relief is around 500 kilograms.

Other special features

Special features of the exhibition are the chocolate room and the chocolate city relief as well as the largest Hallor ball in the world.

In 2010 the old town hall of Halle (Saale) was recreated from chocolate by Claudia Heimann and Tobias Bowitzky . 2000 hours of work and a ton of chocolate went into the 1:18 scale replica. The glass showcase, which houses the old town hall, which was planned by Nickel Hoffmann in 1558 and completed in 1568, has a temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. The original old town hall of Halle (Saale) was damaged in a bombing raid on March 31, 1945 during the Second World War and torn down five years later.

Web links

Commons : Halloren Chocolate  Museum - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Halloren Schokoladenfabrik AG: Halloren Schokoladenfabrik AG | Welcome to the oldest chocolate factory in Germany. In: www.halloren.de. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Reading series: Halle Reading | The Halloren chocolate factory. In: www.halle-lese.de. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Redesign of the chocolate room in the Halloren Chocolate Museum by Gerhard Petzl . In: www.theobroma-cacao.de. Retrieved December 26, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Laura Hiepe: Halle: City map made of chocolate revealed. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, September 20, 2012, accessed April 9, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Katja Pausch: Halloren: Town Hall in whole milk and dark chocolate. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, May 7, 2010, accessed April 9, 2016 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 41 ″  N , 12 ° 0 ′ 30 ″  E