The Frieder Burda Museum
as a life’s work In order to preserve the collection and make it accessible to the public, the Frieder Burda Foundation was established in 1998 – after efforts to establish it in Mougins in southern France were abandoned. It laid the foundation for the museum building designed by the American star architect Richard Meier, which has been presenting the Frieder Burda Collection in Baden-Baden together with other international masterpieces since 2004: A gleaming white solitaire in the historic Lichtentaler Allee, today often referred to as the “jewel in the park”.
Glashütte Buhlbach
The largest and most important glassworks in the Black Forest was located in Baiersbronn-Buhlbach from the 18th – 19th centuries. What hardly anyone knows today: Buhlbach’s worldwide success is based on the development of the pressure-resistant champagne bottle, the “Buhlbacher Schlegel”. Two million bottles were once mouth-blown and exported all over the world every year. The buildings still standing today are the last historic glassworks in the Black Forest. Today, the Kulturpark Glashütte Buhlbach is a contemporary testimony to the history of Black Forest glassmaking and shows the historical development of the Buhlbach glassworks.