1972 Olympics Munich Germany Square Porcelain Vase Jaeger & Co. PMR Bavaria
7 inches tall x 2.25 inches wide x 2.25 inches deep.
Shaped like square
Top edge is painted in gold trim.
This is a beautiful porcelain vase created to celebrate the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.
- It features the Olympic rings, the Olympic Tower and period cars on one side
- And the coat of arms of Munich (Münchner Wappen) depicts a young monk dressed in black holding a red book. It has existed in a similar form since the 13th century.
The vase was made by Jaeger & Co. PMR Bavaria Germany. In 1872 in Marktredwitz was established a decorating porcelain studio. In 1897 Porzellanfabrik Jaeger, Thomas & Co, started by Christoph Jaeger, Wilhelm Jaeger and Fritz Thomas, began producing of high quality porcelain. In 1903 Fritz Thomas left the company starting another business, Porzellanfabrik Thomas & Ens. After Thomas left the company, it changed name to Porzellanfabrik Marktredwitz, Jaeger & Co. In 1904 the factory was awarded a gold medal at The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair. In 1923 there was a fire in the factory but it didn't stop its development. The company survived the Great Depression and both world wars and continued to produce porcelain till it was sold to Italian company Sebring. Production was finally stopped in 1986.
The 1972 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1972), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad (German: Spiele der XX. Olympiade) and commonly known as Munich 1972 (German: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972.
The event was overshadowed by the Munich massacre in the second week, in which eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West German police officer at Olympic village were killed by Palestinian Black September members. The motivation for the attack was the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The 1972 Summer Olympics were the second Summer Olympics to be held in Germany, after the 1936 Games in Berlin, which had taken place under the Nazi regime, and the most recent Olympics to be held in the country. The West German Government had been eager to have the Munich Olympics present a democratic and optimistic Germany to the world, as shown by the Games' official motto, "Die Heiteren Spiele", or "the cheerful Games". The logo of the Games was a blue solar logo (the "Bright Sun") by Otl Aicher, the designer and director of the visual conception commission. The hostesses wore sky-blue dirndls as a promotion of Bavarian cultural heritage. The Olympic mascot, the dachshund "Waldi", was the first officially named Olympic mascot. The Olympic Fanfare was composed by Herbert Rehbein. The Soviet Union won the most gold and overall medals.
The Olympic Park (Olympiapark) is based on Frei Otto's plans and after the Games became a Munich landmark. The competition sites, designed by architect Günther Behnisch, included the Olympic swimming hall, the Olympics Hall (Olympiahalle, a multipurpose facility) and the Olympic Stadium (Olympiastadion), and an Olympic village very close to the park. The design of the stadium was considered revolutionary, with sweeping canopies of acrylic glass stabilized by metal ropes, used on such a large scale for the first time.
Besides the 5 Olympic rings, the other image featured is that of the Olympia-Turm 290m - The Olympic Tower (German: Olympiaturm) in the Olympic Park, Munich has an overall height of 291 m (955 ft) and a weight of 52,500 tons. At a height of 190 m (620 ft) there is an observation platform as well as an exhibition commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Tower. Previously in that space was a small rock and roll museum housing various memorabilia. Since its opening in 1968, the tower has registered over 43 million visitors (as of 2018). At a height of 182 m (597 ft) there is a revolving restaurant, which seats 230 people. A full revolution takes 53 minutes. The tower also serves as a broadcast tower, and has one Deutsche Telekom maintenance elevator with a speed of 4 m/s (13 ft/s), as well as two visitor lifts with a speed of 7 m/s (23 ft/s) which have a capacity of about 30 people per car. The travel time is about 30 seconds. The tower is open daily from 09:00 to 24:00. There is a concept of making Virtual Reality weather timelapse service from Olympiaturm. In case it were implemented, it would become the first tower worldwide with such function.