Upper Franconian Textile Museum
The Upper Franconian Textile Museum is the textile museum in the town of Helmbrechts in the Hof district .
Upper Franconian Textile Museum
The production of textiles has a centuries-old tradition in the region, starting with the hand-weaving of linen , wool and cotton and weaving with the mechanical loom in pre-industrial times through to the modern textile industry . In the 19th century, the city was known as the “wardrobe of the world” because it supplied shawls to more than 140 countries for further processing into local clothing. The museum shows this development history. This includes guild objects from the area, such as coats of arms and chests, to sample books and a functioning mechanical weaving mill. The museum is located in a former textile factory owner's house. It was founded in 1933 as a city museum and conceptually designed as a textile museum in 1992. For the museum, u. a. Otto Knopf and Alfred Rauh.
Special exhibitions
In the exhibition Zwischenlichten as an example of special exhibitions, painters and photographers from the Franconian Forest and the Fichtel Mountains dealt with the life of weaver families and the typical weaver houses. These include the painter and graphic artist Karl Bedal and the photographer Reinhard Feldrapp .
Preserved weaver houses are mostly listed and have characteristics of local architecture such as the tailcoat roof and the stable house . The Weberhausmuseum Neudorf and the Weberhaus Kleinschwarzenbach (Zum Weberhaus 10) can be visited.
Prehistory as a local museum
The initiative to found a local history museum started in 1923 by the Volksbildungsverein. In 1932 and 1933, four museum rooms were designed. The teacher and local researcher Hans Seiffert played a key role in the planning and implementation of the museum concept, while the first chairman of the Franconian Forest Association and factory owner Gustav Weiß provided the necessary financial resources. The museum rooms were needed for other purposes at the end of the war, so that rooms for a local history museum were not available again until the school was expanded in 1955. Mayor Dr. Hans Michel and Rector Hans Seiffert reopened the museum in 1956. The various phases of textile production already took up a large part of the exhibition; there was also a geological section, a generally accessible archive, etc. a. with magazines, newspapers and classic local literature. Further exhibits were objects of everyday use and handicrafts and a manageable collection of weapons related to the city's history.
literature
- Barbara Christoph: Museums in Upper Franconia . District of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth 2013. ISBN 978-3-94106-509-3 . P. 136f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Bloß: The Helmbrechtser Heimatmuseum . In: Frankenwald - Zeitschrift des Fankenwaldverein eV , issue 10/1933, pp. 146–153.
- ^ Hans Seiffert: Helmbrechtser Heimatmuseum . In: Frankenwald - Zeitschrift des Fankenwaldverein eV , Issue 2/1957, pp. 28–31.
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 19.6 ″ N , 11 ° 43 ′ 8.1 ″ E