Museumsdorf Baruther Glashütte

Over het museum

After a storm in 1715 had felled large areas of forest south of Baruth, Count Friedrich Sigismund zu Solms-Baruth had a glassworks built on this spot in 1716 to use the fallen timber as fuel and for potash. The operation only became economically successful from 1822 with the production of milk glass for lampshades. In 1844 the present Alte Hütte (Old Works) was built, in 1861 the Neue Hütte (New Works), and around the middle of the century the glassworks was considered the largest glass producer in the Province of Brandenburg. Many of the surviving residential and work buildings date from this heyday.

Later, bottles and decorated lighting glass supplemented the range. In 1948 the operation was expropriated and continued as a state-owned enterprise, at times produced demijohns, and was shut down on September 30, 1980, due to technical deficiencies and dilapidation.

Since 1990, associations and dedicated individuals have been looking after the ensemble. In 1991 the building of the museum collection began, in 1998 the exhibition on the thermos flask inventor Reinhold Burger, born here, opened, and in 2000 the museum in the Neue Hütte. The district of Teltow-Fläming owns the listed buildings, and the Museumsverein Glashütte runs the museum. In the glass studio, the manual glassmaking continues to be cultivated, which, on the museum's initiative, has been recognized since 2016 as intangible cultural heritage in Germany; merchants and craftspeople bring the village to life.

Hoogtepunten

• Furnace hall with tank furnace and a block of glass solidified in it
• Live demonstrations in the glass studio daily at 12:00 and 15:00
• Blow your own glass ball (ages 7 and up)
• Burger exhibition on the inventor of the thermos flask
• Listed glassmakers' village with shops, workshops, and dining

Vaste collectie

• Welt des Glases – Museum in der Neuen Hütte – The furnace hall of 1861 and the upper floor cover the history of the glassworks from 1716 to 1980, the life of the glassmaker families, the physics and chemistry of glass, and glass from several millennia.
• Reinhold Burger – Erfinder der Thermosflasche – The exhibition in the former grinding shop introduces the glass technician born in Glashütte in 1866, his thermos patent, and his contributions to early X-ray technology.

Beheerder

Museumsverein Glashütte e.V.

Directie

Georg Goes

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

With a parking ticket from the village parking lot, €0.50 off admission. Tour flat fee for small groups of up to 9 people: €25 (short tour) or €40 (museum or village); live demonstration outside regular times €25 or €50 with explanations.

Toegankelijkheid

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Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops
• Speurtocht, doeboekje of kinderaudiotour
• Doe- en voelstations

Children aged 7 and up can blow a glass ball under guidance; also laying mosaics, painting glass, and physics experiments in the Burger exhibition. In the program "Journey to the Glassmakers," children aged 5 to 15 discover two museum suitcases with their families.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

By car via the A13, exit Baruth/Mark (from Berlin) or Staakow (from the south), or via the B96 with a turnoff at Klasdorf. By bike, for example, from Brand Tropical Islands station via Staakow.

Service & horeca

• Restaurant
• Museumwinkel

Glass shop with glass from the museum's own production behind the entrance hall; in the village Gasthof Reuner, Alter Dorfkonsum, Albertine, and WeinSalon as well as craft shops.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

Celebrations and weddings in the village are catered by Gasthof Reuner; the glass furnace in the glass studio can be rented by the hour by glassmakers and artists.

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