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Lace museum Abenberg
The Lace museum in Abenberg, south of Nuremberg, is the first museum, dedicated to bobbin lace in Germany. It was founded the 1st of October 1981 and is situated in the castle "Burg Abenberg", Burgstrasse 16.

The collection is of a great variety. The collection exsists of linen laces, mostly white, gold and silver laces, patternbooks, example books and bobbins. The display is very beautifull and gives a good survey over the history of lace in Abenberg.

The museum is closed in January and February.
It is open from 10.00 until 17.00
April - October: Tuesday - Sunday
November - March: Thursday - Sunday.

The tradition of lace making exsists already for ages in Abenberg. According to documents in the archives of Nuremberg, the nuns of the nunnery Marienburg gave already lessons in lace making to the citizens of the town. Until the beginning of the 19th century only linen threads were used. Around 1830 this is more and more replaced by the use of gold and silver threads. This lace is also used in the head-dress of the Bavarian costume.

To stimulate the lace making in 1913 a lace school is founded. Originally it was a crafts school, but nowadays the courses are more dedicated to lacemaking as a hobby. There are still several of these schools in Germany, mostly in the former DDR. In the old Bundesrepublik there were only two. Besides Abenberg the other school is in Nordhalben.

Although there is still lace made in Abenberg, there are only a few metallaces made and only with very simple motifs. I was told, that who could still make the metallace, were most elderly ladies, and that only one of two knew how to insert the little round '"Flinterchen".

Modified: 10/4/07