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Tobacco Museum Vierraden
image author: Tabakmuseum Vierraden Vierraden. Uckermärkisch Blatt.
Sie war, zu schließen nach meiner Weh,
Höchstens aus der Kastanienallee,
Sie war nicht gesauct, sie war gejaucht,
Und ich habe seitdem nicht wieder geraucht.
Theodor Fontane (1819 to 1898)
Still:
The Vierradener tobacco is well suitable as wadding for cigars and far better than its reputation.
Since the Huguenots brought tobacco growing to the eastern Uckermark over 300 years ago, the region developed to Germany's third biggest tobacco growing area.
There were small local firms that produced cigars apart form cigar factories at the Palatinate, Silesia, Saxony and Pomerania, which mixed this tobacco with the higher appreciated overseas leaves.
image author: Tabakmuseum Vierraden
The last cigar producer who worked from his home was August Friedrich Koch (1.2.1883 to 16.2.1956). The kitchen was the workshop. The older brother Gustav Koch operated his own cigar factory at the Berliner Chausseestraße.
TOBACCO IN THE VOCABULARY
tabaco (Aruak- and Taino-Indians)
taboca (Tupi-Indians)
tabaco (Spanish)
tabacco (English)
tabac (French)
Tabak (German, originally: Toback)
image author: Tabakmuseum Vierraden Tobacco growing, tobacco trade and tobacco processing in the Uckermark are being presented in several exhibition sections of a listed former tobacco drying barn.
The exhibition is also in Polish language.
It shows the way of the tobacco plant from the new into the old world, depicts the tobacco smuggling and advertisement and how the processing was done in the Uckermark.
image author: Tabakmuseum Vierraden OPENING TIMES
1st April to 30th September
Tues–Thurs 10am–4pm, Sat, Sun 10am–5pm
Mon, Fri closed
Further information about the
Tobacco Museum, exhibitions and opening times are available at the official Homepage, from which the pictures and contents were taken.
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Source:
C.Lindenau UM
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