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| Harzkristall GmbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1946 |
| Seat | Derenburg , Germany |
| Branch | Glass manufacture |
| Website | www.harzkristall.de |
Glasmanufaktur Harzkristall GmbH in Derenburg , Saxony-Anhalt , is one of the few glassworks in Germany that manufactures hand-blown products. Specialized areas are vases, glass lights as well as the production of glass parts and lamps for monument protection as well as glass art products in cooperation with well-known artists. The outdoor area with playground and garden landscape was a branch of the state horticultural show in Wernigerode .
Hut history
In 1946, expelled Sudeten Germans founded the Wernigerode hollow glass processing cooperative as a so-called resettler cooperative. After a transformer station built in 1908 was converted into VEB Glaswerk Harzkristall Derenburg in 1949, the Halle University of Industrial Design and Giebichenstein Castle took over the glassworks in 1966 .
In 1990 the glass manufacture became the property of the Treuhand and a cooperation was concluded with the University of Art + Design . In 1993, the state of Saxony-Anhalt took over the works as the Harzkristall GmbH state glass manufacturer. On October 1, 2004, the state-owned company went into private ownership as Glasmanufaktur Harzkristall GmbH. The Gerhard Bürger Foundation was established in August 2013 and the Harzkristall glass factory was transferred to this foundation.
Noteworthy extra productions
- Ceiling lighting system of the parliamentary café in the Paul-Löbe-Haus of the German Bundestag with 190 lights in 70 different colored glasses. The lamps were designed by the Cuban artist Jorge Pardo .
- Lamps for the backdrop of the Stauffenberg film with Tom Cruise
- Art Nouveau lamps in the Berlin Cathedral
- Lamps in the Berlin Synagogue Rykestrasse , the Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Freising Cathedral and the Lindau Theater
- Magic lamps by Otmar Alt
Awards
- Saxony-Anhalt Tourism Prize 2006