Ceramics On the trail of SHORT PROFILES OF 38 DESTINATIONS

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HöHR-GRENZHAUSEN FIRES CERAMICS
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Ceramic start of the season...
INT. CERAMICS MARKET HöHR-GRENZHAUSEN
150 exhibitors from all over Europe
show the whole range of ceramics: from commodity and decorative ceramics, real salt glaze
and artistic unique objects to ceramic jewellery.
A market zone of 500 meters, NASPA-youth-program, museum celebration and open studios.
Info: 02624-19433
[email protected]
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with a very special ceramics festival. About two
dozen studios/potteries allow you to look over
their shoulders. Also free of charge: Shuttle bus
and family day at the Keramikmuseum Westerwald.
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11am - 6pm (open for business)
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Sat 10am - 6pm, Sun 11am - 6pm
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Info: 02624-19433
[email protected]
INT. POTTERY MARKET RANSBACH-BAUMBACH Every year at the 1st weekend in
with Sunday shopping
Hillscheid
Info: 02623-86500
[email protected]
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About 120 potters from Germany and abroad
show what represents the variety of ceramics.
Have a look at the market stalls, throw a glance
into the workshops or use the time for a shopping tour.
October, Sat 10am - 6pm,
Sun 11am - 6pm (open for business)
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The Kannenbäckerland has evolved
into the center of ceramic handicraft
and vocational training. Thus, here
you find the ceramics educational
and research center (Bildungs- und
Forschungs-Zentrum Keramik
(www.bfzk.de)) as well as the largest
museum of ceramics in Europe,
with pedagogical activities for
children and ceramics seminars for
beginners and advanced learners.
Ceramics
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Tradition and Innovation
Leaflet with photos from the Westerwald Touristic Service
In the course of centuries, a unique ceramics
culture has emerged in the Kannenbäckerland – from handcraft to the artists‘ scene to
ceramic high tech products.
The fascination for clay and
ceramics has a long tradition.
The special thing about the
Kannenbäckerland is the
openness to share the passion
for ceramics with visitors and
interested people.
Visit the numerous
workshops and studios
in a unique cultural landcsape.
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1 Atelier Töpferhof Mühlendyck
Elisabeth Dietz-Bläsner
Salt-glazed ceramics for all circumstances
2 Keramisches Atelier
Lindenstraße 39
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 24 53
[email protected]
Open during production times
and by arrangement
Claudia Henkel
Black and white, matt and shiny. Porcelain in
all its many astounding facets, combined with
pit firing. Dinnerware, lamps, curtains, unique
pieces.
3 Alina Penninger Keramik
As agreed by phone
Mobile: 0172 / 694 26 40
Lindenstraße 39
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 94 91 96
www.porzellan-claudia-henkel.de
Mon-Fri 10am - 6pm
Sat 10am - 4pm, Sun 11am - 4pm
(on 40 Sundays in a year)
Hermannn-Geisenstraße 75
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 95 29 64 0
www.diekeramikinsel.de
Tue-Fri 14-18
Sat 10-18 Uhr
Sun 11-18 Uhr
Kasinostrasse 7
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 94 16 99 0
www.kultur-kasino.de
Führungen: 10-50 Pers. n.V.
Die Keramikinsel 6
The specialist shop for ceramics
Experience ‘ceramic variety’ from more than 50
workshops, from traditional or modern to artistic
unique pieces.
KASINO - Keramikkultur 7
Workshop – Store – Gallery – Café
· Shop and gallery:
Contemporary ceramics, unique pieces, accessories and small batch series. Exhibitions
with different focuses and alternating guest
ceramists from all over Germany.
· Workshop:
Nicole Thoss – Wall art and objects, innovative
printing techniques on ceramics – fascinating,
subtle and multifaceted.
Sandra Nitz – vase objects and articles of daily
use made from porcelain, hand-thrown, stackable, uncomplicated, authentic and aesthetic.
· Café: Coffee and cake for a little snack in
between.
as agreed by phone,
also on Sundays.
Handmade stone dinnerware...
... and garden ceramics, adorned with delicate
patterns. Custom-made products according to
your wishes.
Seiferwiese 31
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 63 80
[email protected]
Guided tours: 10 people, by arrangement
4 Kyra Spieker
Ceramic objects...
... abstract plastics, design projects
in the public space
5 Keramikmuseum Westerwald
The largest museum of ceramics in Europe
The history of ceramics, Jugendstil, stylistic
movements of the postwar period, ceramics
of the present as well as technical ceramics are
presented spaciously on 4 floors: 2500 sqm
exhibition space – total size about 5000 sqm!
The largest museum of ceramics in Europe,
which was expanded in 2007, shows salt-fired
ceramics of the Westerwald region, tools, model
ovens – ceramics in handcraft, art and design.
Moreover: Special exhibitions, competitions,
symposia, lectures, concerts, museum education
for children, adolescents, adults and elderly
people, guided tours, museum shop, museum
café, training courses and conferences.
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Architekturkeramik Eichelberg 8
By arrangement
Mon-Sun 9am - 5pm,
or as agreed by phone
Burgstraße 2
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 52 00
www.kyraspieker.de
Guided tours: up to 10 people.
Katharinenstraße 4
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 95 09 40
Führungen: 5 Pers. n.V.
[email protected]
Tue-Sun 10am - 5pm
every day, as agreed by phone
Lindenstraße 13
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 94 60 1-0
www.keramikmuseum.de
Brunnenstraße 13
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 95 05 16
www.andreas-hinder-keramik.de
Führungen: bis 15 Pers. n.V.
By arrangement
Mobile: 0177 / 264 13 02
Brunnenstraße 13
53203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 53 91
[email protected]
Guided tours: 10 people,
by arrangement
Tiled stoves, fireplaces, bathroom design...
... wash basins, tiles, mosaic, garden ceramics and
construction ceramics, custom-made ceramic
vessels, handmade and individually designed
customer orders.
Andreas Hinder Keramik 9
ceramic sculptures
Ceramic animal sculptures for indoor and
outdoor areas. Large vases and free sculptures
for the public and private space. Individual customer orders and project-related teamwork.
Keramikwerkstatt 10
Armin Skirde
Manufacture of individual tableware, throwing on the potter’s wheel, painting with the
Malhörnchen (little painting horn). Ceramics
are modern in their form and painting, and of
archaic character.
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11 Werkstattgemeinschaft CeraMix
In the old „Merkelbach“ manufacture
0 26 24 · 94 36 70
Brunnenstraße 11c
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
www.cafelibre.de
Kathrin Bachmann
Fine porcelain vases and porcelain jewellery,
with delicate painting or high-contrast
graphical patterns.
0176 · 48 20 01 10
Brunnenstraße 11c
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
www.cafelibre.de
Mon-Fri, 8am - 5pm
Sat, Jan-Mar 9am - 1pm
Sat, Apr-Dec 9am - 4pm
Marlen Schulze
Dinnerware and figural sculptures:
Humans, animals and floral elements
are among the works.
0176 · 40 04 32 47
Brunnenstraße 11c
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
www.cafelibre.de
Rheinstraße 41
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 71 82
www.girmscheid.de
Guided tours: 20-100 people,
by arrangement
Tine Dottke
Commodity ceramics and ceramic pictures:
the vase becomes a carrier for colourful, skew
pictures of women and other figures.
0 26 24 · 94 36 70
Brunnenstraße 11c
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
www.cafelibre.de
Susanne Schmidt
Plant houses, wall houses, salt and pepper houses,
skyscrapers, witch houses...
Homemade objects for tables, window sills or
gardens. Individual ceramics courses on request.
every day from 2pm
0 26 24 · 18 09 30 2
Brunnenstraße 11a
next to Café Libre
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
www.cafelibre.de
Mon-Sat 10am -12.30pm
(any time by arrangement)
Mon-Fri 10am - 1pm + 2pm - 6pm
Sat 10am - 2pm or by arrangement
Mon-Fri 9.30am - noon + 1.30pm - 5pm
and by arrangement
Maria Meyer – Ute Matschke
Colourfully illustrated stone-dinnerware, with
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and function, and imaginative paintings.
0 26 24 · 95 20 49
www.meyerundmatschkekeramik.wordpress.com
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Four professionally trained ceramists
form a workshop community.
As they are artistically ambitious and have
unconventional ideas in the dinnerware- and
the living-area, they also work on individual solutions in the area of free ceramics.
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Maja Wlachopulos
Arwed Angerer
Objects and commodity ceramics from the
wood-fired oven: Ashes and and salt create lively
surfaces.
12 Keramikwerkstatt
Thu 2pm - 7pm
and by arrangement
Jewellery made from porcelain...
...delicate, filigree, playful. My pieces of jewellery
can be found in the following shops:
Keramikinsel (6), Keramikkasino (7),
museum shop in the Keramikmuseum (5)
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 95 20 00
www. porzellan-schmuck.de
Töpferei Girmscheid 15
Workshop for salt-glazed stoneware
Factory sale on more than 250 m². Salt-glazed
stoneware produced in-house. Commodity and
decorative ceramics, figurines and garden ceramics. Doorplates, decorative wall plates, Bembel
jugs, mugs and cups designed as requested.
For groups of 20-100 people, guided tours
through the pottery can be arranged by phone.
Experience the manufacture of the „white gold“
closely. We explain everything you need to know
about salt-glazed stoneware, show our decoration techniques and the oven area as well the
pottery-process.
Keramikwerkstatt La Bottega 16
La Bottega, Dorothea Bonk
Manufacture of trend-oriented unique pieces
and small batch series, fabrication of decorative
jewellery, architectural ceramics by customer
orders. Ceramics courses by arrangement.
Ferbachstraße 6
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 29 18
www.dorotheabonk.de
Roland Giefer Keramikwerkstatt 17
Exclusive ceramics...
Schützenstraße 48
53203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 23 81
www.roland-giefer.de
Guided tours: 30 people, by arrangement
Mon-Fri 10am - 1pm + 2pm - 6pm
Sat 10am - 2pm or by arrangement
Mon-Fri 9am - 1pm
and by arrangement
Brunnenstraße 13
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 59 53
www.keramikgruppe.de
Römerberg 1 (from May 2013)
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 91 58 00 8
[email protected]
... made from salt-glazed stoneware, with
expressive smalt-painting. Vessels for kitchen,
living area and garden, figurines and wall art,
custom-made products and restoration.
Schneeweiss & Rosenrot-Keramik 18
Dörthe Czarnotta
Manufacture of table ware in happy colours
and unique pieces.
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19 Töpferei + Museum im Kannenofen
Guided tours with demonstration of potterymaking and decorating in pottery and museum.
Formation and mining of clay, manufacturing
process from clay chunks to fired vessel. Peacockeye decorations in the style of Bunzlau, decorations
with the Malhorn (little painting horn), commodity
and decorative ceramics. Handicraft and technical
aspects, economical and social-historical aspects
as well as aspects of art history of the Westerwald
ceramics and other pottery areas. Ceramics in science and technology. Technical monument “Kannenofen” (Kiln building. Rhenish and Westerwald
stoneware (13th-20th century). Silesian-Bunzlau ceramics (16th-20th century). Direct sale of ceramics.
School classes and bus groups are very welcome.
20 Charlotte und Sigerd Böhmer
Mon-Sat 9am - noon + 1pm - 5pm
Mon-Fri 8am - 12.30pm
+ 1.30pm - 6pm, Sat 9am - 2pm
Kleine Emserstraße 4
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 72 51
www.keramik.de
English guided tours
Guided tours: School classes,
bus groups
Forsthaus Rembserhof
56235 Ransbach-Baumbach
At the L 306 between
Breitenau and Nauort
0 26 23 · 26 48
[email protected]
www.rembserhof.de
Open most of the time,
certainly by arrangement!
By arrangement
Georg & Steffi Peltner, owner Bolko Peltner Sun 1pm - 5pm
Hand-thrown dinnerware...
and unique pieces, imaginatively painted with
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colourful engobes. Our workshop is situated in
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a historic pottery estate, containing the biggest
0 26 24 · 51 10
Kannofen (antique ceramics oven) still intact
[email protected]
Guided tours: Workshop / Oven house
in town.
21 Kaffine Keramik
Petra & H.-P. Kaffiné
Frost-resistant, seasonal decorative articles
with historical ornaments, plant vases, herb
labels, figurines, pre-Christmas decoration
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Hastenteufel
Raku ware, wheel-thrown or handbuilt,
inspired by development-aid-travels
in Africa and Asia.
Hauptstraße 12
56204 Hillscheid
0 26 24 · 94 79 11
www.kaffine-keramik.de
Bergstraße 20
56235 Ransbach-Baumbach
0 26 23 · 92 40 53
www.susanne-boerner.de
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Garden ceramics, unique objects
Hand-thrown and modelled – various figurines
for house and garden.
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Art is to love life
Art is what is created distinctively by Susanne
Boerner. Her special talent is to preserve the
naturalness of materials, to combine them in a
way that enables them to fascinate the observer
with their inimitable charm.
Susanne Boerner has this sense of forms and colours, which is particular to all her unique works.
By arrangement
Gartenstraße 8
56206 Hilgert
0 26 24 · 94 56 40
[email protected]
Ester Kröber
· Alternating exhibitions “Donnerwetter“
in a historic railway-car
· ceramics days for children
· p-art-icular production
Interested... just give me a call.
Achim Gelhard
Töpferei Waltraud Gleichauf 25
Haupstraße 8
56237 Wirscheid
0 26 01 · 12 92
www.keramik-gleichauf.de
Mon-Fri 10am - 6pm
Sat 10am -1pm
Rembserhof Keramik/Kachelöfen 24
Planning and installation of tiled stoves and tiled
fireplaces, mantled with oven tiles, tessellation
or handformed ceramics. Ceramic vessels and
garden ceramics, construction ceramics, ceramics for bathroom design.
By arrangement
23 KERAMIK BAHNHOF GRENZAU
Ladestraße 1
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 36 61
www.ester-kroeber.de
Mon-Fri 10am - 6pm
Sat 10am - 1pm
and by arrangement
Bergstraße 20
56235 Ransbach-Baumbach
0 26 23 · 22 71
www.derschlondes.de
Guided tours: by arrangement
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Antiques - Ceramics - Art
Museum for Kannenofen (antique ceramics
oven), Rosina Wachtmeister ceramics & paintings, arrangement of kitchens and shops,
restoration
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28 Pfeiffer-Gerhards, Töpferhof
Owner Stefanie Pfeiffer-Gerhards
High-quality fine stoneware for the kitchen,
bread bins, decorative storage tins, indoor
fountains, oil burners, aroma stones and
incense for the esoteric area
29 Jopeko Keramik
Bergstraße 23
56235 Ransbach-Baumbach
0 26 23 · 40 84
www.pfeiffer-gerhards.de
Guided tours: by arrangement
30 Töpferei Richard Zinko
Owner Luitgard Pehl
Brunnenstrasse 8
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 50 35
www.modellbau-konscholke.de
Mon-Fri 8.30am - noon + 1pm - 6pm
Sat 9am - 1pm
Mon-Fri 9.15am - 6pm
Sat 9.15am - 1pm
Südstraße 10
56235 Ransbach-Baumbach
0 26 23 · 22 27
[email protected]
Guided tours: up to 50 people, by arrangement
31 Töpferei Gerharz + Manns
Owner Walter Manns
Mon-Fri 9am - noon + 1pm - 6pm
Sat 10am - 2pm, Open Sundays
Pottery for salt-glazed stoneware in grey-blue
Rheinstraße 73
and kölschbraun (golden-brown) (decorative
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ful glaze-developments)
www.gerharz-manns.de
Guided tours: up to 60 people, by arrangement
32 Römertopf® Keramik GmbH & Co. Kg
Römertopf clay pots, bread bins...
... baking dishes, humidifiers, ceramics giftware
33 KERAMIKAtelier Susanne Pirstadt
Individual Biofire…
Tiled stoves and wood-burning
stoves, manufacture of ceramic
products from stoneware and
porcelain for indoors
and outdoors.
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Rheinstraße 150
56235 Ransbach-Baumbach
0 26 23 · 22 68
www.jopeko.com
Guided tours: by arrangement
Salt-glazed stoneware in „grey-blue“ (pitchers,
vases, dinnerware, custom-made products)
In the Kannenbäckerland, you find more
than just ceramic workshops.
For example:
Mon-Fri 9am - noon + 1pm - 4pm
Joh. Pet. Korzilius II
· F rom “COLD to HOT“: special ceramics for cookingroasting-baking-barbeque-fondue
· high-quality ceramics for decoration-audio-garden
· custom-made design in vessels - construction
ceramics - sanitary ceramics
Mon-Fri 10am - 4pm
... for industry and handicraft. Modelling and
mould construction for commodity, garden,
sanitary or roof ceramics. Replica of vessels,
sculptures or facade elements. Casting moulds
made from silicone or plastic material.
Westerwaldstraße 1
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 62 92
www.keramikbuch.com
Mon-Fri 8am - noon + 1pm - 5pm
Sat 9am - noon (except July+Aug)
Modellbau Konscholke A
Individual model and mould construction...
Buchhandlung Helmut Ecker B
Specialist literature on ceramics
Ceramics specialist literature
Antiquarian ceramics bookshop
Ceramics trade magazines
Thomas Wolbring GmbH C
Material for Ceramics - Machines - Kilns and Industrial Furnaces
Rudolf-Diesel-Straße 13
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 21 96
www.wolbring-keramikbedarf.de
Your competent partner for ceramics needs.
Our large programme stands out due to high
quality and attractive prices. Look and see for
yourself. Visit us or request our free catalogue.
Mon-Thu 8am - 4pm
Mon-Fri 7.30am - noon + 1pm - 5pm
Sat 9am - noon
Material for ceramics
Weiherstraße 1
56235 Ransbach-Baumbach
0 26 23 · 82 28 1
www.roemertopf.de
Rudolf-Diesel-Straße 15-17
56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen
0 26 24 · 20 30
www.keramikbedarf.de
Glazes, colour pigments, gold, lustre ceramics,
clay mass and raw materials, decorative paints
for porcelain, ceramics and glass – also available
as finished screen printing pastes.
By arrangement
Mon-Fri 7.45am - noon
+ 1pm - 4.30pm
Sat 9am - noon (except July+Aug)
In den Erlen 4
56206 Hilgert
0 26 24 · 94 16 90
www.carl-jaeger.de
Töpferstraße 1
56235 Ransbach-Baumbach
0 171 / 539 51 70
www.keramikatelier-pirstadt.de
Hans Wolbring GmbH D
Carl JÄGER Tonindustriebedarf GmbH E
Your partner for ceramics products
Clay, clay mass, raw materials for mass and glaze,
glazes, engobes and paints, ceramics machines
and devices, tools and auxiliary means, ceramics
kilns and pottery wheels.
Request our free catalogue!
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