Velten Oven and Ceramics Museum
The Oven and Ceramics Museum Velten (OKM for short) is a museum in the Brandenburg town of Velten . The museum, which has existed since 1905, presents the history of the tiled stove and the pottery industry from the perspective of the stove town of Velten. The entire ensemble, consisting of the factory building, factory hall, machine and boiler house, auxiliary building and transformer station is a monument .
history
Due to the rich clay deposits , a pottery industry developed in the Brandenburg village outside Berlin from 1835 , which reached its peak at the turn of the century. In 1903, 43 kiln factories and ceramic workshops were producing in the now rapidly growing community.
At this time, in 1905, the local museum for the tiled stove and pottery industry was established with the support of the community leader Hermann Aurel Zieger, the cantor Gustav Gericke and the local ceramic industry . Gustav Gericke, the first director of the museum, was able to move into twelve rooms in the attic of the boys' school in Viktoriastraße. The museum's focus in the first few years was on tiles , sample books, stove decorations, stove models, magazines and specialist literature.
After the Second World War, the museum moved several times and had to be sold to Berlin in 1970 due to the dilapidation of the building, where the collection was in the basement of the Museum of German History until the early 1990s . In 1992 the stove collection was shown in the German Historical Museum (DHM) , which took over the holdings after the Museum of German History was closed, under the title Märkische Tonkunst . As a result, the Förderverein Ofen- und Keramikmuseum Velten eV was founded in Velten with the aim of getting the collection back. On July 6, 1994, the museum was reopened in the A. Schmidt, Lehmann & Co. furnace factory . This company, which still produces stove tiles and building ceramics, was established in 1872 at Wilhelmstrasse 32. The museum moved to the top floor of the historic building and has been the starting point for Deutsche Tonstrasse since 1999 - a tourist travel route for clay in Berlin and Brandenburg.
Permanent exhibition and other sections
The museum shows an extensive collection of stoves from the 16th to 20th centuries from Germany, Switzerland and Austria in a permanent exhibition on around 840 square meters. Furthermore, outstanding pieces of utility and decorative ceramics from Brandenburg artist ceramics will be on view at the end of 2014. Over 4000 individual tiles, stove parts, stove decorations and stove models then document the history of the tiled stove in changing exhibitions. The expanded exhibition space is currently being prepared for these presentations. There is also an exhibition area for Haël ceramics, which are very popular with collectors. There are also several special exhibitions per year and occasional traveling exhibitions. In July 2008 an energy and environment cabinet was opened in which all questions about energy-saving and environmentally friendly heating are answered. The museum also houses a collection of sample books and photographs by Waldemar Titzenthaler , which is unique in Europe, as well as the technology archive.
Another focus of the museum is the life of Hedwig Bollhagen , who ran her famous HB ceramics workshops in Marwitz , only around 2.5 kilometers from the museum . In her memory, the city of Velten is building a museum building in which Hedwig Bollhagen's artistic estate will be made accessible to the public at the beginning of 2015. A trust foundation under the care of the German Foundation for Monument Protection was set up for the estate and its representation . The works and designs came into the possession of her niece Dr. Silke Resch, who transferred the remaining pieces to the Hedwig-Bollhagen-Stiftung, which she founded, in order to preserve the artist's memory permanently. The furnace and ceramic museum, as well as the HB museum section, is operated by the Förderverein Ofen- und Keramikmuseum Velten eV The furnace and ceramic museum Velten and the HB museum section is an organizational unit under professional management, which is located at the furnace and ceramic museum. The furnace and ceramic museum Velten is located on the northern outskirts of Berlin and is an important museum in the state of Brandenburg. The museum is located in the regional growth core OHV (Oranienburg-Hennigsdorf-Velten) and will become more and more important in the future.
building
The museum is located in the building of the furnace factory August Schmidt, Lehmann & Co., which was built in 1899. The factory building has 3½ storeys and a gable roof . The inscription: "Founded in 1872, A. Schmidt, Lehmann and Co, built in 1899" is attached to the street facade. To the west of the factory building is the single-storey factory hall, which has a monopitch and a gable roof. To the north of it is the machine and boiler house with the chimney. Another outbuilding is to the south of the factory building. The transformer station is located on the forecourt. All the buildings are solidly constructed using brick . The entire ensemble is a listed building.
References
literature
- Paul Dahms: Velten, A foray through the history of the furnace city , Veltener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, ISBN 978-3-9811401-8-7 .
- Monika Dittmar: that the whole museum can be thrown into the Havel. From the history of the Velten Museum. In: Museum papers. H. 20. Potsdam 2012 ISSN 1611-0684 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Paul Dahms: Velten, A foray through the history of the furnace city , p. 63.
- ^ History of the Velten Oven and Ceramics Museum, accessed on January 31, 2011
- ↑ Homepage of the furnace factory A. Schmidt, Lehmann & Co. GmbH, accessed on January 31, 2011 ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Paul Dahms: Velten, A foray through the history of the furnace city , p. 112.
- ^ OKM Velten Exhibitions, accessed on January 31, 2011 .
- ↑ Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation , accessed on December 14, 2018
Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 21.6 " N , 13 ° 10 ′ 17.2" E