120 years of furnace museum: Festwoche full of surprises in Velten!

120 years of furnace museum: Festwoche full of surprises in Velten!

Velten, Deutschland - When celebrated in Velten, then with a double reason: On July 13, 2025, the Veltener Ovenmuseum celebrate its 120th anniversary, while the Hedwig Bollhagen Museum celebrated its 10th anniversary. A real festival for the whole family stands in the house and promises an exciting program that will inspire young and old.

On the festival day, the discoverer bike tour is started in the traces of the tiled industry at 11 a.m., which is certainly interesting for the bike friend: inside among the visitors. If you like it a little more leisurely, you can join the “Pötter tour” by the city, in which the Kachelbäcker Anton tells exciting stories about the stove town. A guided family tour under the motto "Fire, coal, tone" begins at 12 p.m. in the Kachelofenfabrik A. Schmidt, Lehmann & Co. The museum will present a collection of artistic heat donors from different epochs that makes the heart beat faster.

Festive supporting program

The big festival then starts at 1 p.m. with a tasting, ranging from coffee and cake, summer punch and the popular Velten beer to grilled. Various happiness and hands-on stations as well as board games and musical performances ensure a happy atmosphere. The start is a drum roll from Sen-Tro-Vve, followed by summer melodies of the Free Choir Velten, which will be heard at 1:30 p.m.

The festive highlight is the foundation of the first German chimney sweep museum at 2 p.m., which is accompanied by numerous festivities. Not only are chimney sweeps invited, but also prominent guests such as the mayor Ines Hübner and Prime Minister Dr. Dietmar Woidke are expected. Of course, the founding stone of the new museum is also a special event that will be created in a historical locksmith and smithy right next to the stove and ceramic museum.

a new look at the story

The chimney sweep museum will deal with the history and development of the chimney sweep trade and thus shed light on the city history of Velten. The idea for this new museum was created in 2016 with the special exhibition "Feuerchenchührender" that aroused great interest.

Not only the festival itself, but also the entire museums that are in focus on this day invite you to immerse yourself in the history of the heating. The Hedwig Bollhagen Museum shows impressive ceramic works of art and brings memories of artistic products that have survived.

So if you do not do anything in July, you should mark this appointment red in the calendar and look forward to a happy festival in Velten, which is celebrating both the tradition and the future of the city. And if you are not in the area, you have other options all over Germany, such as "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Borzellan-_keramikmuseen"> Keramikmuseum Rheinsberg or in porcelain museum in Fürstenberg-the world of ceramics is unbelievable varied!

The doors of the two anniversary museums are open to guests from Tuesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. On for pleasure in Velten!