Austria · Silversmithing; Metal craft; Viennese heritage
Wiener Silberschmiede — Kaiserliche Goldschmiedegilde
The Vienna silversmithing tradition — the production of the distinctive Habsburg Imperial silver whose quality was governed by the Wiener Punze (Vienna hallmark) from 1806, and whose characteristic restrained neo-classical and Biedermeier silver vocabulary complemented the porcelain and furniture traditions of the Viennese court. The Vienna Silberschmied reads the correct annealing temperature for the specific Vienna silver (typically 13-loth or 800 silver — a lower purity than the 925 sterling used in Western European traditions) through the same heat-color assessment as the Schoonhoven 835 silver (CRAFT-1384) but calibrated to the Austrian 800 silver alloy.
Risk level: Endangered · Not listed; Vienna silversmithing on the Austrian national heritage inventory
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