Industrial Monument Jakob Bengel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
5.0 (25 reviews) Saturday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #6 in Idar-Oberstein Speciality Museums • Historic Sites • Points of Interest & Landmarks
very interesting industrial museum
The industrial heritage monument Jakob Bengel is the only authentic manufacturing plant with company flats and an industrialist mansion, which embodies the over 130 year industrial history of the city of Idar-Oberstein. In the district of Oberstein, situated below the city theatre, the Bengel company, which employed 100 people during the golden age, offers guided tours through the factory. Insights are given into the chain-, jewellery-, and accessory production with diverse technologies and numerous self developed tools. The partly antique machinery and old production processes indicate the creative power of the trade (jewellery design, engraving and the building of tools), which in the era of controlled mechanics set the prerequisites for a successful jewellery production. Since 2003 the Art Deco jewellery of Jakob Bengel of the 20’s and 30’s, is reproduced according to their own pattern books with the original tools and in the same production method in limited editions for special
Address
Wilhelmstrasse 42a, 55743 Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany
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Website
http://www.jakob-bengel.de
Working hours
Monday :
Tuesday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Saturday, May 11, 2024, 14:39
User Ratings
5.0 based on (25 reviews)
Reviews
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5wpbtraveler3858 5:00 PM May 30, 2018
Key to the City
The property houses some of the most incredible antique machinery where the worlds jewelry was produced many years ago. a lost art as one can only imagine those that sat at these machines some larger than life to do just one part of the production. I was with friends in the industry and from the town so I had nearly a private tour. Really opened my mind to the history of making jewelry as well as what this city is known for.
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5355reviewer 5:00 PM Aug 1, 2016
Tour of Bengel museum
What a wonderful tour and a great treasure. The shop/museum was full of old, but operational metal working equipment in mint condition. It was a step back in time to the days of Germany's peak production. The tour was amazingly informative and detailed regarding the manufacture of jewelry and the equipment. I am not a metal worker but still enjoyed it very much
