Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains

The Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains is placed inside the antique socage vault of Purschenstein Castle in Neuhausen/Erzgeb. Inside the German Free State of Saxony. The museum presentations encompass a glassworks from the time of Georgius Agricola, in addition to a workshop and different writing implements and gear of Ore Mountain glassmakers as well as the records of Neuhausen and Purschenstein Castle. In addition there are demonstrations of glass blowing.

The glassworks museum in Neuhausen preserves evidence of the paintings of glassmakers within the Ore Mountains, an enterprise that goes lower back to the original agreement of the region around 1200 and consists of paintings from both the Saxon and Bohemian regions of the Ore Mountains. The significance of those glassworks had an effect some distance beyond the Ore Mountain area.

This is likewise authentic of the antique Neuhausen glassworks of Heidelbach, founded in 1488, which labored till about 1827 and is represented inside the exhibition. In the Heidelbach glassworks, further to easy regular glasses and plate glass and tremendous glass work changed into also finished. For instance, the glass manufacturing unit belonged to the purveyors of glass to the Saxon electors and other noble homes. "The Four Evangelists", four spherical panes of glasse painted with teeth, made for Purschenstein's citadel chapel and relationship to the year 1612, may be visible inside the exhibition.