Deutsches Stuhlbaumuseum, Chair-making museum in Rabenau, Germany.
The Deutsches Stuhlbaumuseum is housed in a former stable building of Rabenau and displays thousands of chairs, production tools, and machinery related to furniture making. The collection spans multiple rooms and shows how chairs were designed, built, and finished across different historical periods.
Rabenau became known for chair making starting around 1600, when local residents specialized in this craft and built a strong manufacturing tradition. The museum was established in 1922 to record and preserve this heritage of skilled furniture production.
The exhibition shows how craftspeople in this region made chairs as everyday objects that reflected both comfort and style. The different design styles displayed tell the story of how tastes and working methods changed across generations.
The entrance is at Lindenstraße 2, marked by a blue plaque reading "Markt 8" on the stone wall in front. The chair-making section occupies the ground floor under a cross vault; the local history collection is on the first floor and the second floor serves as an archive. The building is a former stable of the Rabenau castle estate.
The ground floor's cross vault was raised by chair dealer Ferdinand Reuter, who bought the estate in 1866 and set up a chair-making workshop here. The museum has occupied the building since 1978, and since 1999 the whole ground floor has been devoted to chair making.
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