page_title: Porzellanikon
section_title: Hohenberg an der Eger location
hierarchical_section_title: Porzellanikon / Hohenberg an der Eger location
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Das Porzellanikon in Hohenberg an der Eger
context_page_description: The Porzellanikon is a museum complex dealing with the production of porcelain and ceramics in Selb and Hohenberg an der Eger in the district of Wunsiedel i. Fichtelgebirge in Germany. The complex of museums was the result of the merger of the European Industrial Museum for Porcelain, the European Museum of Technical Ceramics, the Rosenthal Museum and the German Porcelain Museum in Hohenberg an der Eger. Since 2012, the Porzellanikon has been included in the European Route of Ceramics as a member of the "UNIC".
context_section_description: The German Porcelain Museum was opened in Hohenberg on the Eger in 1982. Previously, the complex had served as the home of the family's company Hutschenreuther founded by Carolus Magnus Hutschenreuther. With the foundation of the first porcelain factory in northeast Bavaria in 1814 Hutschenreuther had laid the foundations in Hohenberg for the region to quickly became the center of the German porcelain industry. In 1995, the historical house was extended by a modern extension of glass and steel to 2000 m². Today, the museum shows some 12,000 exhibits, more than 150,000 parts are in the depot.
  The permanent exhibition shows porcelain products from China as well as all kinds of porcelain produced in the German-speaking world, both precious individual products for noblemen as well as industrial products. The tour is chronological. In each room the visitor is shown features of a Kunstepoche. In front of the buildings is the former factory garden with apple trees and rose leaves.
caption: Porzellanikon – Hohenberg
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