page_title: Creußen
hierarchical_section_title: Creußen
caption_attribution_description: German stoneware tankards were brought to America in large numbers on Dutch fur-trading ships. Shards of these popular vessels have been uncovered at seventeenth century sites in New York and New England.
context_page_description: Creußen is a town in the district of Bayreuth in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the Red Main river, 13 km southeast of Bayreuth.
  Creußen is famous for its stoneware beer steins.
  Creußen is the starting point of the Red Main branch of the Main-Radweg bicycle path which stretches about 600 km along the Main until the mouth into the Rhine.
context_section_description: Creußen is a town in the district of Bayreuth in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the Red Main river, 13 km southeast of Bayreuth.
  Creußen is famous for its stoneware beer steins.
  Creußen is the starting point of the Red Main branch of the Main-Radweg bicycle path which stretches about 600 km along the Main until the mouth into the Rhine.
caption: Creußen painted stoneware beer stein of 1675 from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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