Pottery Museum Duingen
The "Kulturtreff Töpfermuseum " was opened on August 15, 1988 by the former local home keeper Friedrich Becker. The institution is sponsored by Flecken Duingen , a founding member of the Association of German Ceramic Cities eV In the meantime, over 1000 exhibits have been collected in the pottery museum, which are documented and some of them exhibited here.
House
At the location of the half-timbered house at number 8 was one of the oldest pottery shops in the town. The first verifiable owner of the pottery was the master potter Heinrich Lampe, born in 1629. 15 acres of arable land and a meadow belonged to his Kötnerstelle. Mr. Lampe was elected mayor several times and was one of the best-off craftsmen in Duingen. In 1689 he had to pay the highest poll tax of all residents at 5 thalers and 24 groschen. In 1789, the Pilsters had the house torn down and built the large half-timbered building that stands today. In 1845 the later owner, the pharmacist August Grünhagen from Salzhemmendorf, opened a branch in this building. The "Adler Apotheke" existed until 1985. Since 1987, a part of the building - as a location for the pottery museum - has been rented at Flecken Duingen .
The shield
The sign “Kulturtreff Töpfermuseum” shows next to this writing a potter's wheel with a flower vase with a flower on it. This was the symbol of the potters for centuries.
museum
In many respects the most important and longest active pottery center in Lower Saxony developed around 1120–1150 in the Duingen area (district of Hildesheim and Holzminden).
In the beginning, relatively porous earthenware was made. According to soil finds from several places in the center of Duingen, it can be assumed that the manufacture of stoneware also began there in the middle of the 13th century.
In 1940 important artefacts were found that show production from the 16th to 19th centuries. The home nurse Ludwig Böker put together an extensive collection from these, which in 1961 became the property of the community. The results of his detailed research in archives unfortunately only exist as handwritten manuscripts that are difficult to access; In 1949 he wrote the history of Duingen pottery. These manuscripts were later transcribed in print by Friedrich Becker, former director of the museum and local homeworker. And these archaeological finds form the basis for today's museum.
The permanent exhibition shows earthenware ( ball pots , ball jugs, ball-bellied jugs; some with slightly corrugated base ring) from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century, engobed and salt-glazed stoneware (tableware, mugs, jugs, spout jugs) from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century, lavishly decorated vessels from the Renaissance and Baroque periods (e.g. beer mugs), simple storage dishes from the late 18th and 19th centuries, works by the artist Jürgen Riecke and industrial ceramics from the 20th century.
In addition, you can find Weserware in the Museum, a typical product of the Pottland, which, however, was not made in Duingen. The exhibition gives an insight into historical pottery life and deals with topics such as clay preparation and kiln technology. There are also special exhibitions in the museum. Local topics are dealt with, but modern ceramic exhibitions are also shown.
literature
- Friedrich Becker: The old Duingen pharmacy. Duinger Heimat- und Kulturverein eV, 1999.
- Ludwig Böker: The history of pottery. Duingen 1949.
- From the potland into the world. A historical pottery region between the Weser and Leine. Mitzkat Verlag, Holzminden, 2012, ISBN 978-3-940751-53-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ From the Pottland into the world. A historical pottery region between the Weser and Leine . Holzminden 2012, p. 17 .
- ↑ From the Pottland into the world. A historical pottery region between the Weser and Leine . Holzminden 2012, p. 22 .
- ↑ Beatrix Adler: Early stoneware jugs from the Les Paul collection . Drillingen / Saar 2005, p. 166 .