How old craftsmanship lives on in Thuringia

by time news

Hand-blown Christmas tree decorations have been manufactured in Lauscha since 1847. It also makes Berlin Christmas trees more beautiful.

Brilliantly decorated: Christmas tree decorations from the colored glassworks in Lauscha.imago

Ines Zetzmann is not complaining. She doesn’t become polemical, sticks to the facts. When energy prices skyrocketed in the spring and had rapidly risen tenfold, she acted. The managing director of Elias Farbglashütte in Lauscha, Thuringia, bought a smaller kiln. The fact that the large existing one had to be routinely overhauled made the decision easier for her. Now the glass is liquefied in a 300 liter tank, not in a tank twice that size. This consumes less energy, also because the heating-up phase is significantly shorter.

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