Baltic jewelry
| Baltic jewelry | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1948 |
| Seat |
Ribnitz-Damgarten , Germany
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| Branch | Jewelry making |
| Website | www.ostseeschmuck.de |
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The Baltic jewelry GmbH is in Ribnitz-Damgarten -based medium-sized companies in the jewelry industry. The company emerged from VEB Ostseeschmuck, the most important producer and exporter of amber- decorated silver jewelry in the GDR .
history
The silversmith Georg Kramer jun. founded the company G. Kramer jun. in Ribnitz in 1771 . In 1932 his descendant, the goldsmith Walter Kramer , began to decorate the silver jewelry with marine motifs made of amber. Due to its great success, Walter Kramer had the name Fischlandschmuck trademarked in 1939 . The company employed 100 people at the time and operated under the name Fischland GmbH .
After the Second World War , on July 1, 1948, the SMAD was expropriated , as a result of which Walter Kramer fled west to Lübeck and later moved to Travemünde to continue the business there. The forcibly nationalized company operated under the name VEB Fischlandschmuck for a short time, but after a lost legal dispute it had to be changed to VEB Ostsee-Schmuck . The company developed into the largest supplier and manufacturer of amber and silver jewelry in the GDR in the 1960s. The work was now hallmarked with a stylized fish (in contrast to the Fischland decorations , whose hallmark consisted of the letters GK in a Gothic window).
Since the Soviet Union used a large part of the amber supplies itself, there was a shortage of raw materials in the early 1970s. As a result, in 1974 the VEB Ostseeschmuck requested in newspaper advertisements the citizens of the GDR to send the company amber. As the number of mailings from the area around Bitterfeld increased noticeably, the company commissioned geologists to search for amber deposits in the vicinity of the open-cast brown coal mine near Bitterfeld. Abundant deposits of amber soon led to the Goitsche mine being used to mine amber.
In April 1992 the manufacturer changed its name to Ostsee-Schmuck GmbH as part of the privatization . Ostsee-Schmuck GmbH still produces gold and silver jewelry adorned with amber and, according to its own statements, is the largest jewelry manufacturer in the new federal states .
On June 9, 2000, the new company headquarters was opened in Damgarten , which houses a show manufacture and an amber jewelry exhibition.
Fischland jewelry
" Fischlandschmuck " is not used today to describe the products of the later VEB Ostsee-Schmuck, but the jewelry that the company G. Kramer jun. which Walter Kramer ran in Ribnitz until 1948 and in Travemünde after his escape. Since 2009 a Ribnitz amber gallery has held the patent rights.
The Fischland jewelery is characterized by the use of one or more natural ambers and their handcrafted silver surround with partially sculptural and filigree applied maritime motifs such as fish, starfish, anchors or sailing ships. The collection included rings, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, as well as spoons, serving forks, cake servers , and napkin rings. The applications were manually soldered, in contrast to the products of the Baltic Sea jewelry, which were usually only cast. The work of the Kramer-Manufaktur differs from the mass production of the GDR company by the high quality processing.
References
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fischland jewelry from Ribnitz ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2012 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.
- ↑ History of the German Amber Museum in Ribnitz-Damgarten (PDF file; 69 kB)
- ^ Romans, Vikings and the VEB Ostseeschmuck
- ↑ a b History and development of Baltic jewelry ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 11, 2012 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.
Coordinates: 54 ° 15 ′ 19.1 ″ N , 12 ° 29 ′ 44.7 ″ E