Augustusburger Hutzenwerkstatt

Augustusburger Hutzenwerkstatt a family business since 1964.

Small but nice are the works of the workshop in Augustusburg. Pyramids and Schwibbbögen would fit into any lady’s handbag but they are not made for it. Since July 1987 Stephanie Drechsler has taken over the business from her father Karl Herhold. In 1964, father Karl had made his hobby fretwork a profession. In GDR times starting a business was not easy and had its difficulties. He was for years a mini-branch of the Heimatkunst Grünhainichen, from which after the turn of the company Blank grew. In 1980 finally came the self-employment. Daughter Stephanie, his colleague, already had the skilled worker for wooden toys in his pocket and was studying at the Fachschule für Angewandte Kunst in Schneeberg. “He built me,” she says, who made her master craftsman from 1985 to 1987. The motif after Caspar David Friedrich’s “The Cross in the Mountains” is, like many other things, still a design of her father. The family business has been run by husband Hans-Ullrich Drechsel since 2005. “Here, the goods are not off the line, here you can still create with heart and hand” is the motto in the family business Drechsel. And if you hardly want to believe it, the filigree images are really sawn by hand and not with the laser beam. They are made of chestnut wood, which is not too hard and not too soft and not too heavily grained to distract the view from the subject, as Stephanie Drechsel explains. In addition, there are woodstones for the baseboards, Makoreé for the bows, maple for the lights, beech and walnut. All natural, like every single one of the approximately 20,000 small works of art that leave the workshop each year to wholesalers and retailers.