1828

Johnnes Schilling’s birth in Rochlitzer St.

1877

He was granted the honorary citizenship of Mittweida.

1898

The members of the town council congratulate him on his 70th birthday. A street is being named after him.

1905

He is commissioned to design the fountain planned on the market square.

1913/1914

Joh. Schilling’s sons gave more than a hundred original plaster models and the greater part of his study to Mittweida in order to have a Schilling Museum established in Mittweida. This Schilling estate represents 50 years of the artist’s work. The jar, created by Joh. Schilling in 1849 is one of his earliest pieces of work. His design of the fountain on the market square in Mittweida, dating from 1905, was one of his latest works of art.

1914

Two rooms were provided in the town hall in the New Town district: the Schilling Museum of Mittweida. Due to the Great War, however, the museum, planned and established by Director Dr. Roch of Bautzen, was not opened.

1922

Since the town council was in need for new offices, they started looking for suitable rooms for the extensive collection.

1925

The original plaster models were brought to the secondary school on the shore of Swan Lake – into the basement.

1928

The town fathers planned to build an annex to the secondary school either in 1928 or in 1929, including better and more suitable rooms for the Schilling Museum. In the spring of 1928, however, parts of the furniture of Schilling’s study had already begun to warp and to rot and the plaster models were in a miserable condition.

1932

The Society of Ethnology and Local History had the artist’s estate taken to the Museum of Local History on Church Hill. The honorary director of the museum, Bohne, proudly wrote: “At this time our museum consisted of three rooms only, nevertheless I was able to show our latest acquisition to the people of Mittweida.”

The 1970s

Until the seventies Schilling’s estate was stored in the museum on Church Hill. In the mid-seventies the Museum Committee was commissioned to refurbish the museum. On the occasion of a trade fair of future master craftsmen Pestalozzi School students were made familiar with the collection.

An extensive inventory of the contents of the Mittweida Museum was unfortunately not made before the middle of the seventies (20^th century). By this time the Schilling estate was already considerably damaged.

1995 to 1999

The Schilling estate had to leave Church Hill. It was temporarily stored in the house of the Sattler family.

Since the unveiling of the plaque, the „Old Parsonages“ Museum shows a special exhibition of Schilling’s life and work. On the occasion of the opening Baron von Schilling handed over important documents from Johannes’ life, taken from the family archives, as permanent loans. Among them the certificate of Honorary Citizenship, a portrait of 29-year-old Johannes, painted by Julius Grüder, patent certificates, pictures and sketches. The chairman said: “We join together those things which belong together.” Furthermore he handed over a cheque for 1000 D-Mark. The money was destined for the restoration of the damaged busts.