funflair
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A good day out for anybody interested in clocks and watches.
We recently visited Glashutte which is a small town about 30 miles from Dresden in what was the old East Germany, we actually stayed at Paulsdorf and cycled there but there is also a train every hour they told us.
Glashutte is respected as the foremost watch production centre in Germany and in a small town it has at least 11 top brands manufacturing there, Lange and Sohne, Glashutte original, Nomos Glashutte, Union, Wempe, Morritz Grossmann etc etc, some you may have heard of others not.
We had booked a tour around the Glashutte original factory, you do this from their web site and it costs €10 each if you don't own one of their watches (we didn't). The tour was very interesting and informative and in English.
In the town there is the Museum of all things watch and clock making from Glashutte and it tell how they rebuilt the industry after the break up of Germany when the Russians stripped the factories of equipment and sent it all back to Russia.
While you are in the area visit Dresden and Meissen.
Martin
We recently visited Glashutte which is a small town about 30 miles from Dresden in what was the old East Germany, we actually stayed at Paulsdorf and cycled there but there is also a train every hour they told us.
Glashutte is respected as the foremost watch production centre in Germany and in a small town it has at least 11 top brands manufacturing there, Lange and Sohne, Glashutte original, Nomos Glashutte, Union, Wempe, Morritz Grossmann etc etc, some you may have heard of others not.
We had booked a tour around the Glashutte original factory, you do this from their web site and it costs €10 each if you don't own one of their watches (we didn't). The tour was very interesting and informative and in English.
In the town there is the Museum of all things watch and clock making from Glashutte and it tell how they rebuilt the industry after the break up of Germany when the Russians stripped the factories of equipment and sent it all back to Russia.
While you are in the area visit Dresden and Meissen.
Martin