GOLD WALL & SHINY BAUBLES
The Jewelry World of Schmuckwelten Pforzheim
For
the jewelry addicted who cannot resist the iridescent sparkle of a
pear cut facet, the tick
of a fine
watch
movement, or a maybe solid
gold Porsche, a visit to Germany’s Schmuckwelten "World of
Jewellery" in Pforzheim at the northern edge of the Black Forest
(Schwarzwald) region of
Baden-Wurtemburg
should hold an irresistible draw. Pforzheim
had been the traditional capital of Germany’s jewelry
industry for hundreds of years, known in its glory days as the “City
of Gold”. Now this city in southwest Germany has returned to former
bejeweled splendors from a 20th Century of turmoil and can now be explored
at a sort of gold and jewellery amusement park shopping
extravaganza,
a
4,000 square meter entertainment and shopping center.
The “Jewelry Adventure Park” (Schmuckerlebniswelt) offers a collection of exhibits from a floor to ceiling “wall of gold”, fantasy spheres with a jewelry theme, the afore-mentioned gold Porsche, a mineral display of 5,000 specimens of precious gems. The design gallery has alternating exhibition of jewelery designs of the classic past and the future. The event stage presents demonstrations of fashion and new trends. And watch the shiny baubles being fashioned into sparkling designs by skilled watchmakers and goldsmiths behind glass. And of course you can shop and buy, which is perhaps the end point of the experience in showrooms designed by the artist Yann Kersale.
The Schmuckwelten is located a few blocks from the Pforzheim main train station and about 30 minute drive from Stuttgart or Karlsruhe. They’re open year round but don’t do any sales on Sundays. Guided tours can be arranged. © Bargain Travel Europe
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See Also:
FRIEDRICHSBAD IN BADEN-BADEN
SCHLOSS NEUSCHWANSTEIN - KING'S FANTASY CASTLE
MERCEDES-BENZ
MUSEUM STUTTGART
