House of silk culture
The House of Silk Culture is an industrial monument that is run as a museum in Krefeld at Luisenstrasse 15. The Krefeld main station is only minutes away. A support association runs the museum.
The history of velvet and silk production in Krefeld is presented in the building of the former parament weaving mill Hubert Gotzes . The centerpiece of the facility is the historic weaving room, in which, up to 1992, precious liturgical vestments (paraments) were made from Italian and Chinese silk threads for over 100 years . Eight wooden hand looms with jacquard attachments from the 19th century document a craftsmanship that is no longer practiced today.
history
The building, also known as the “four-window house”, was built in 1868 in what was once the elegant Kronprinzenviertel of Krefeld.
From 1908 to 1992, precious paraments (priestly robes) were woven here. A historic event that took place in the USA in 1926 made the small weaving mill world famous at times.
The last managing director, Erwin Maus (deceased in 2004), started running the business in 1989 and ceased operations in 1992. It was important to him that his weaving mill (now the last with an authentic weaving room and eight jacquard handlooms) is preserved for posterity. NRW Foundation and Sparkassenstiftung Krefeld bought the property together and handed it over to a development association in 2000.
After two and a half years of renovation and the implementation of fire protection measures , the museum has been open to the public again since the beginning of April. This concludes the "Asylum" in Krefeld's Südbahnhof , where the House of Silk Culture was presented during the renovation period.
monument
While the building at Luisenstraße 15 is listed as a monument with the number 718 in the list of monuments of the city of Krefeld, the inventory of the parament weaving mill Hubert Gotzes is entered in the same list with number 20 as a movable monument.
See also
- List of silk museums
- Krefeld # museums and galleries
- List of architectural monuments in Krefeld (monument no.718)
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 '39.8 " N , 6 ° 34' 14.3" E
Footnotes
- ↑ Map of the Kronprinzenviertel
- ↑ During a procession on the occasion of the 26th World Eucharistic Congress in 1926, a sudden rain surprised the participants. The colors of most of the paraments ran out; only the fabrics from Hubert Gotzes remained color-fast.
- ^ City of Krefeld: List of monuments of the city of Krefeld. ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. June 2013, accessed on September 28, 2012 (PDF, size: 126.03 kB).
