Rhenish Stoneware

#history #archaeology #rhineland #stoneware #steinzeug #retirement

You thought I was done, but you’d be wrong. I ended the “research” but there’s still, well, stuff to do.

For one, I did not yet go to the Westerwald. This is the “other” continuing stoneware pottery centre.

The Westerwald is where potters from Siegburg and Raeren went at the end of the 16th century. Siegburg was running out of wood and losing customers to the newer Rennaisance designs of Frechen ... https://www.zahr.koeln/2026/04/18/rhenish-stoneware-you-thought-i.html