#history #archaeology #rhineland #stoneware #steinzeug #retirement #Frechen #Keramion

Well worth a visit

https://keramion.de

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A series of posts on Rhenish Stoneware
#history #archaeology #rhineland #stoneware #steinzeug #retirement #Frechen #kilns

As I had somehow managed to miss the site, I went back to Frechen and looked at some kilns.

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A series of posts on Rhenish Stoneware
#history #archaeology #rhineland #stoneware #steinzeug #retirement #Frechen #Keramion

What the visit to the Keramion (a museum for ceramics in Frechen) started to show, is that stoneware is easy to photograph individually, but slightly difficult to capture what makes it interesting besides being pretty.

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A series of posts on Rhenish Stoneware
#history #archaeology #rhineland #stoneware #steinzeug #retirement #Frechen #Keramion

In November I jumped on my bike and visited Frechen to visit the Keramion and see what there was still to see of the stoneware pottery history.

There was a lot, industrial stoneware eg sewage pipes were produced there until quite recently. Of course the medieval stuff was more difficult.

Anyway, this is, what the most "famous" product of Rhenish Stoneware looks like, the Bartmann Krug.

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