{"id":12614,"date":"2022-12-20T18:36:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funkygermany.com\/?p=12614"},"modified":"2022-12-20T18:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:36:52","slug":"happy-travels-with-beautiful-shards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funkygermany.com\/en\/happy-travels-with-beautiful-shards\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy travels with beautiful shards\u00a0<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Enchanting landscapes and places characterize the south-east of Thuringia just as much as the porcelain. Little masterpieces, from rococo figures to designer crockery, are created with loving craftsmanship.\u00a0You can discover them in the manufactories and museums along the Thuringian Porcelain Route.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Svenja M\u00e4rkner<\/strong> stands in the Schwarza with her trouser legs rolled up.\u00a0The water only reaches the woman up to her knees.\u00a0The rocky river is fairly flat here, on the northern edge of the Thuringian Slate Mountains.\u00a0Densely lined with deciduous and coniferous trees, it makes its way past steep slopes through a valley that is both rough and lovely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Searching for … porcelain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The hiker from Erfurt looks carefully into the shallow water.\u00a0Looking down, she scans the ground with her eyes, toes and fingers.\u00a0Is she perhaps looking for some of the gold that still exists here?\u00a0No, the 55-year-old has other things in mind \u2013 and finally also in her wet hands.\u00a0\u201cI have one, I found a leg!\u201d she cheers as she presents the lower leg of a porcelain figurine.\u00a0It’s bright white and pink, barely longer or thicker than half a ballpoint pen.\u00a0The stretched foot with the delicate shoe reveals the motif.\u00a0“A dancer,” the connoisseur is quite sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As routinely as Svenja found this fragment between all the pebbles, it has been so long since she salvaged the last such treasures.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a child, I spent a lot of time in the Schwarzatal.\u00a0While others combed the river for sparkling metal, I was content with the white gold – or what was left of it, <\/p>\nsays the native of Rudolstadt.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The source of their strange finds in the 1970s was the porcelain factory in Sitzendorf<\/strong>, directly on the Schwarzufer. Now privately owned again, at that time it belonged to a large state-owned company in the GDR.\u00a0“Anything that broke or failed during production ended up in a heap of rubbish, some of which ended up in the river,” says the shard collector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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