page_title: Brushmakers' Museum, Ramberg
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Brushmakers' Museum, Ramberg / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Figur eines Ramberger Bürstenhändlers
context_page_description: The Brushmakers' Museum in Ramberg is a local history museum in the village of Ramberg in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The responsible body that set the museum up in 1997 and has run it since then is the Local History and Museum Society of the Brushmakers' Workshop, Ramber.
context_section_description: Since the 18th century, the municipality of Ramberg has been known beyond the boundaries of the Palatinate region for its brushmakers and brush merchants; for a long time these were almost the only occupations that were undertaken in this remote corner of the Palatinate Forest. Initially brushmaking was a cottage industry with brushes and brooms, scrubbers and similar everyday articles made painstakingly by hand in the home, it later became a factory-based activity. For example, in 1907 there were eight brush and brushwood factories in Ramberg. The raw materials, especially wood and Common Broom, were obtained inter alia from the Holpertal valley, which begins just northeast of Ramberg. The Ramberg brush merchants sold their wares not just across the whole of Germany, but also in other European countries.
caption: Figure of a Ramberg brush merchant
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