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Building Number 15 in the printed brochure
"Historic Buildings in Münchberg".

The sign is on the right, next to the entry.

The “Royal Professional Weaving School” on Kulmbacher Straße opened on October 12, 1898 as the successor to the weaving school. On the birthday of Prince Regent Luitpold the Munich sculptor Erwin Kurz created the allegorical figures of the spinner and the weaver in 1899, which still adorn the two niches to the right and left of the entry today.

The new building was two storeys to begin with, was added onto in 1919/20, and the school was renamed “National Professional Training School for the Textile Industry”. To that purpose came buildings for embroidery, weaving and hand weaving, as well as the “National Inspection Office for the Textile Industry”. In 1934/35 the addition of electricity to the building was successful. From 1936 the teaching of dyeing was picked up, and a department for pattern drawing was opened, out of which emerged design instruction.

In 1950 the educational orientation was changed to “National Textile and Engineering School of Münchberg”. A spinning mill and a finishing department were furnished. In 1961 they bought a building from the Neutex Company, in which today textile design is housed. After the founding of the Bavarian University of Applied Sciences, the separation of the Münchberg textile training into a vocational school and a university followed. Finally, on August 1, 1971, it was added as the “Department of Textile Technique and Production” in the University of Applied Sciences in Coburg. On March 1, 2001 the reorganization of the newly founded University Hof took place.

The main building has 11 windows on the street side on the first and second storeys and eight windows and the entryway on the ground floor. The base is covered with granite. Over the round-arched entry is a pointed gable supported by two columns. The building has a trapezoid roof with five dormers on the front.

Further external links: University Hof und Textile School