The collection area for the historical hat making of the museums of the city of Guben includes objects from the Guben hat industry before 1945 as well as from hat making in GDR times until the end of traditional hat making in 1999. The collection includes numerous written documents, photo material on hat making, hat making tools, Various historical ladies and gentlemen hat models, hat boxes and hat machines from former Guben hat factories.
Genuine Guben wool and fur felt hats from different decades are particularly valuable.
The hat-making collection also contains numerous objects relating to the Wilke hatmaker family in Guben and their former hat factory C. G. Wilke - the first German wool hat factory. Another focus of the collection is the industrial hat production in the VEB Vereinigte Hutwerke Guben or, from 1970, in the main company of the hat industry in the GDR - the hat combine Guben - with numerous writings

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Frank Meyer

February 16, 2019

Today, the city hall, a museum and a library are housed here

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Rosefahrer

December 31, 2022

A factory in the former booming cloth town of Guben. What World War II didn't destroy was worn out by the GDR. Gradually, the factory buildings are restored.

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Location: Guben, Spree-Neiße, Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany

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