Spielbühler Pottery (1759-1977)

In 1759, journeyman potter Johann Heinrich Spielbühler from Schirnding marries into Thurnau and founds a workshop on Schlossweiher, which remained a family business for over 220 years. The workshop is converted from manually operated to motor-driven machines shortly after 1900 to meet the high demand. A machine house is built and a petrol engine is purchased for this purpose, which drives the clay rollers and glaze mills by transmission. Thurnau's first Kassel kiln was presumably built here in 1764.

Spielbühler pottery mainly produces dinnerware and storage containers, which are covered with a transparent lead glaze and slip-glazed using a slip trailer. New forms of decoration such as the scratching technique or faience painting have also been tried out since about 1945, following the example of the Stüdemann Ceramic Workshop.

• The objects of the collection "Spielbühler Pottery (1759-1977)" available on bavarikon

The other part collections of "Thurnau pottery tradition" available on bavarikon

• Grimm pottery (18th c. - 1884)
• Pittrof Pottery (1777-1926)
• Freund Pottery (1784-1932)
• Weihermüller Pottery (1875-1897)
• Senft-Freitag Pottery (1881-1928)
• Renner Pottery (since 1884)
• Stüdemann Ceramic Workshop (1939-1970)
  
• Schnauder-ems Pottery (1964-2008)
• Tittmann Pottery (since 1974)
• Häußinger-Le Dieu Pottery (since 1984)
• Sanke Pottery (1988 – 2018)
• Noë Pottery (seit 1996)
• Schnauder-Sanke Pottery (since 1997)
• Moppers and miniatures - in preparation

>> This collection is part of the holdings of "Thurnau pottery tradition" of the Töpfermuseum Thurnau.