Karlstadt Plumbing Museum
An interesting tip for every plumber and restoration enthusiast is a visit to the plumbing museum in Karlstadt. The museum covers many topics from metal mining, to metalworking, sheet metal production and the use of sheet metal in the history of mankind. In the exhibition there are many useful household items that plumbers used to supply households. The next and the most important part is the exposition of the plumbing craft. This is also supported by the layout of the museum. Four turrets of different shapes protrude from their square plan at the corners. These look modern from the exterior and their purpose is to show the different techniques of cladding and roofing buildings. From the interior, it is in these turrets that exhibits from the plumbing industry are found.
- technology of production and processing of metals
- renovation and creation of ornaments of historical objects
- history and shapes of gutter systems
- art exhibits
Exposition of basic tools for plumbers
On the ground floor there is a space for plumbing exhibits and in the basement there is a space for individual methods of metal processing with an overview of tools and basic machinery and equipment. Around the perimeter are individual workstations with high-quality working facilities
- Sheet metal cutting
- sheet metal forming
- hot metal forming forge
- pipe bending
It’s amazing to see how the exhibits are loosely laid out and with the confidence of the visitors, each tool can be grabbed and tried. This was the greatest experience for me, when compared to Slovakia, it could not be so freely laid out. It depends on the exhibitor’s trust towards visitors, which is high in Germany.
Plumbing Museum in Karlstadt
Basic concepts
Learn the concepts necessary to know when forming sheet metal in the plumbing trade and sheet metal forming
- marking and drawing templates
- Sheet metal cutting
- sheet metal coiling
- sheet metal drawing
- shaping of curves
- chiselling
- leveling (metal smoothing)
- manual grooving
- sheet metal bending
- sheet metal bending
Utility items
The creation of objects for the home and industry was the basic mission of the plumbing craft in the past. A valuable contribution is the drawings of utilitarian objects that encourage visitors to create these objects at home.
The Karlstadt Plumbing Museum
The exhibition of the plumbing craft is located in Karlstadt, Germany, in the Federal Republic of Bavaria.
Training Centre
The Karlstadt Plumbing Museum also includes a training centre, which is a necessary component in the education of today’s plumbers, but also an integral part of the ecosystem for improving awareness of modern technologies in the production and installation of plumbing elements
Education and activities for children
Education of children and young people is also part of the training centre and therefore a number of activities to popularize the craft are also part of the training centre
The basics of roof drainage and folding
It is necessary to know the basics of overlapping each roof
The art of plumbing
If the museum did not contain objects of a certain value, the museum could not exist. That is why a few objects have been presented here.
I highly recommend any enthusiast or craft to visit this exhibition. It is an extremely valuable testament to the times and the evolution of craft to a fully automated industry.
