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Once again, our work was noticed and appreciated by visitors. A historic Neumeyer piano from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries was donated to the "Forester Chamber". The instrument was part of the C. W. Meyer deposit in the northern German city of Lübeck. The Neumeyer company was founded in 1860 by Fritz Neumeyer in Szczecin. A year later, the headquarters were moved to Berlin. By 1898, the company sold 25,000 instruments. In 1905, after his father's death, his son Max took over the management of the company and renamed the factory Gebr. Neumeyer. In 1928, at the Leipzig Fair, whose tradition dates back to 1895, the Gebr brand. Neumeyer presented its anniversary piano with serial number N° 60,000.
We are very happy to have the opportunity to present the piano, especially since it enriches our facility in terms of education. It is a kind of testimony to the cultural importance of the Hochbergs in Silesia. The Prince of Pszczyna, Jan Henryk XI Hochberg von Pless, is known, among others, as the originator of the creation of the so-called hunting horn plessówki, which is still used in hunting to this day. In turn, the prince's younger brother, Count John Henry XIV Bolko Graf von Hochberg, was a diplomat and ... composer of symphonies, operas and smaller compositions. He is the originator of the Silesian Music Festival, probably the oldest in Europe, taking place in Zgorzelec since 1876. He was also director of the Royal Theater Institute in Berlin.
If you have items related to the history of hunting, hunting, forestry, culture of our Pszczyna region and you do not know what to do with them, we cordially invite you and encourage you to donate them in order to enrich the "Forester Chamber".
Text/Photo: Michał Makowski
