Manufactory of the weaver colony

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Manufactory of the weavers' colony in Zinna Monastery

The factory of the weavers' colony is a listed building at Berliner Straße 72 in the Zinna district of the town of Jueterbog in the Teltow-Fläming district in the state of Brandenburg .

history

Monument to Eduard Wegener

The building was commissioned by the Berlin merchant Jacob Friedrich Heyl , who set up a factory for weavers in it in 1776 . Just one year later, the factory owner Johann Georg Sieburg, also from Berlin, took over the factory and set up 22 workplaces for spinners and weavers. It also served as a customs house . After his death in 1802 the company had to close; his employees bought the building in 1823. In 1830 it came into state ownership when the city established a six-class elementary school there. One of the teachers at this school was Eduard Wegener . The pedagogue , born in 1826, was initially a teacher and later a main teacher at the Zinna Monastery. On his initiative, the town organized a school festival from 1848 to promote cohesion in the community even in economically difficult times. Wegener taught for around 54 years, sometimes in classes with up to 70 children. He was known for his severity, but at the same time so popular that his students erected a monument with his bust to the left of the main building in his honor in 1926 - on his 100th birthday . During the Second World War , the building was damaged when a bridge was blown. During the GDR era , the city used the house as a kindergarten, crèche, youth home and hiking area. After the fall of the Wall , the kindergarten moved to a new building and the building was used as a doctor's practice and community nurses' station. Between 1996 and 1998, the city converted it into a weaving museum, which opened on May 1, 1998. Since 2002 the official name has been called WebHaus .

architecture

The single-storey house is located in the immediate vicinity of the road from Luckenwalde to Jüterbog at the southern exit of the village. It has eleven axes with ten arched windows and the entrance in the middle axis. It is provided with a light yellow-reddish plaster . In the mansard roof covered with reddish tiles there are a total of ten windows facing the street. To the left of the building, in a former gateway, the monument to the teacher Wegener is placed in a white plastered, curved arch. The gate passage is still preserved to the right of the building.

Museum weaving house

Loom by Roswitha Moxter

In 1994, master hand weaver Roswitha Moxter moved from the Eichberg house in Thyrow to Zinna Monastery. The sponsoring association supported the move so that Moxter could continue her weaving art and at the same time pass on her knowledge of hand weaving to third parties. Moxter then had their technical equipment including five functioning looms transported to the museum. Moxter died in 2004. Part of the weaving workshop was initially lost as an inheritance . In 2006, however, the city of Jüterbog bought most of it back. It has been on display in the museum since then. Among the pieces is, for example, a counter-march flat loom with a central pull with six shafts from 1838 and a further developed model with side feed and six shafts from 1948. The exhibition provides information about the history of the monastery and the development and decline of the weaving industry . In addition, in one of the rooms there is a large-format exhibit of the association flag of the journeyman weaver brotherhood of Zinna from 1779. The flag was restored in 2014 with the help of funds.

literature

  • Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .

Web links

Commons : Manufactory of the weavers' colony  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notice: On the memorial at the Webhaus: Eduard Wegener, teacher in Zinna in the museum, inspection in May 2015.
  2. ↑ Notice: Webhaus Kloster Zinna in the museum, inspection in May 2015.
  3. ↑ Notice: Hand weaver workshop in the museum, inspection in May 2015.

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 11.5 ″  N , 13 ° 6 ′ 12.4 ″  E