"THE" Crystal from NACHTMANN

I have never been one to be a fan of crystal or any type of glass collection. Mostly because it was always seemed to be such a waste of money. We no more then got off the plane and heard people raving about a local Crystal Company that has been around for ages.
I was told they have this warehouse sale on Fridays and that I just "had" to go.
On a whim a friend mentioned that she was going last Friday morning, so with about a 35 minute notice we were in her car and headed to this so-called magic crystal land sale......little that I knew that in a few hours time I would suddenly be "hooked" .......

It is about a 45 minute drive into the town. Once we got there we went straight past the showroom and fancy stores that sell it all full price. Now that I've seen the beauty, the next time we 'venture that way, I will be sure to peer inside the actual showroom. We walked all the way back to almost an ally looking location within the crystal factory and found ourselves in a warehouse full of crystal on pallets--and drop dead prices. Thank goodness they had carts our Id be in trouble. LOL

Here is the pretties I got on my very first trip.

I chose the red wine glasses and plate to put on display in my living room to tie in with my red couch. I got the flutes for our upcoming anniversary. The vase was just to cheap and amazing to pass up, I also got each girl a Cinderella crystal shoe. I even paid extra to have the engraver etch each of their names on them. I spent 70.50 euro on all of it, including the etching fee. WOW!!!!

On top of this crystal being locally famous, it has a very rich local history. For me, this is what the appeal is. I adore the way everyone seems to have these family business run for hundreds of years to enrich this great Baveria land.

Here is some of the history of Nactmanns

1834 The glassmaker Michael Nachtmann found the company F.X. Nachtmann

1900 Zacharias Frank takes over the company and moves the headquarters to Neustadt an der Waldnaab, where they are still located today.

1945 Nachtmann rebuilds the partially destroyed production facilities and begins again the production of lead crystal in Neustadt and Riedlhutte.

1983 Laying the foundation for the third, highly modern crystal plant in Weiden.

Next time I will be sure to take my own pictures of the location, but here is what the front building looks like