Creating beauty. Enabling participation.
Handmade in Westphalia. With skill, care, and a special eye for beauty.
Behind the Freckenhorster Manufaktur are people who create something special with their hands. Things that are not just produced somewhere, but created with time, experience, and great attention to detail.
A manufactory with a purpose
Craftsmanship with history
What began in 1974 with eight employees has grown into a large community over the decades. Today, around 1,500 people with disabilities work in the various departments of the Freckenhorster Werkstätten. With this history, a great deal of experience, craftsmanship, and special skills have also grown. Some things are created piece by piece by hand. Some with the support of modern technology.
But always with a common goal:
We want to make things we can be proud of.
Everyone has something to offer.
For us, inclusion does not mean making differences invisible. It means making capabilities visible. People bring different talents, interests, and possibilities with them. That is why we offer a variety of tasks and work areas – from manufacturing and refining to packaging and shipping. Thus, behind many of our products is not just a manufacturing process, but the skill of many individual people.
Good design and social responsibility
We do not believe that you have to choose between beautiful and meaningful. That is why the Freckenhorster Manufaktur creates products that combine both: high standards of design and quality, and a production process that offers people opportunities for participation. You are therefore not buying a product from us out of pity.
You are buying something because you like it.