Graf von Henneberg Porzellan Ilmenau

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Porcelain brand that was used by the New Porcelain Factory in Ilmenau between 1983 and 1989. It differs from older brands from the Ilmenauer Porzellanmanufaktur in that it is blue instead of green.

Graf von Henneberg Porzellan was a manufacturer of household porcelain , founded in 1777 in Ilmenau , Thuringia . The name was borrowed from the Counts of Henneberg, to whose county Henneberg Ilmenau had belonged in the Middle Ages. At the time of its founding, the aristocratic house had been extinct for 150 years.

history

From 1777

Christian Zacharias Gräbner , who comes from Großbreitenbach and is already knowledgeable about porcelain , obtained on July 8, 1777, his still young sovereign, Duke Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1757–1828), the concession to establish a manufacture for porcelain goods in Ilmenau and thus founded the oldest such Ilmenau factory. Although the manufacturing conditions were initially favorable - for example, the prince had advanced capital - Gräbner did not manage to run the company successfully. After Gräbner set off on a trip to Russia , the Ducal Council and Secret Secretary Friedrich Justin Bertuch took over the management of the manufactory in order to secure the funds disbursed by the Duke . In 1783 Gräbner left Ilmenau one more time to work in Reval with glassmakers and painters hired from Thuringia . Nevertheless, he could not raise the 2,000 thalers reclaimed by the duke , so that the sovereign had the Ilmenau porcelain factory put up for auction on July 22, 1786 - and finally bought it himself for 6,000 thalers. As a result, the company was leased to Johann Gotthelf Greiner , the owner of the Limbach porcelain factory, for 6 years .

Bulbous jug with an early everlasting flower pattern from the period 1786 to 1792 under Johann Gotthelf Greiner ;
Exhibit from Hallwyl Museum , Stockholm ;
Hallwyl Museum / Jens Mohr , CC BY-SA
Around 1800: coffee pot in the form of classicism ; Stained glass related to antiquity
Cup and saucer with finely painted townscapes, curved shapes
Similar porcelain painting on strictly classical forms

Greiner initially used the kaolin mined in the neighboring town of Steinheid , which meant that he avoided import duties , but had to make do with the inferior quality of the raw material. It was only after he imported the kaolin mined from Bohemia in the Zettlitz mines across the national borders that the desired success was achieved. After the lease period of six years, Greiner's contract was not extended at his own request.

From 1792: Christian nun

From 1792, Christian Nonne († 1813), the merchant from Erfurt and previously successful tenant of the later Aeltesten Volkstedter Porcelain Manufactory , which was operated in Volkstedter , and his son-in-law Ernst Carl Rösch († around 1836) leased the ducal company and made it an economic one Bloom: Among them was a rich "[...] repertoire of coffee, tea and chocolate services, platters, plates, bowls, pipe bowls, needle boxes, stick handles and other utensils" and for example in the Netherlands , Poland , Russia or Turkey exports. Gradually, for example, the traditional "[...] bulbous jugs with a straw decoration" were replaced by contemporary classicist shapes. At the turn of the 19th century, the Ilmenau manufactory now also produced blue and white medallions in the style of English Jasperware in the style of Josiah Wedgwood : The porcelain was now decorated with scenes from antiquity , with motifs from Christianity or with portraits .

In 1808 Christian Nonne bought the company that was named after him, which after the acceptance of his son-in-law Ernst Karl Roesch became a partner as Nonne & Roesch .

From 1813: Ilmenau porcelain factory

Portrait of the merchant Christian Nonne;
Ink drawing by Franz Kotta , 1785, owned by the Angermuseum in Erfurt

After Nunne's death, Rösch took over the sole management of the leased factory in 1813, which has since operated as the Ilmenau porcelain factory .

Initially successful, the business gradually declined in the 1820s. After Rösch's death, his widow Friederike handed the company over to her son Christian in 1836, who, however, could no longer prevent the bankruptcy that had been declared two years later .

In the period that followed and until the year the German Empire was proclaimed , the porcelain factory was run by various tenants - until the foreclosure auction in 1871 by the banker Hermann Stürcke . The subsequent conversion into a stock corporation (AG) brought a strong upswing again ; in particular the cups and objects decorated with flower paintings towards the end of the 19th century were very popular. The now to factory converted porcelain manufacturer reported yet during the Kaiser, several patents on for fabrication processes such as "[...] the production erzartiger coatings, relief gilding and the generation of Matt Matt gold and luster on china".

During the First World War and in the Great Depression , sales also broke the Ilmenau factory one, was occasionally short-time working and even closures . Only after the focus had been changed from inexpensive export to quality goods did a trend turnaround. In the time of National Socialism , the AG introduced the brand name "Graf von Henneberg" from 1935 and made profits again from 1936.

After the Second World War , the Ilmenau porcelain factory initially had to produce almost exclusively for reparations to the Soviet Union .

From 1973: Combine Graf von Henneberg

In Ilmenau there were further porcelain manufacturers until 1973 , for example Metzler & Ortloff and Galluba & Hofmann . All Ilmenau porcelain factories were merged in 1973 to form the New Ilmenau Porcelain Works (NPI) in Eichicht . It produced under the name Graf von Henneberg . In 1980 over 3,000 people worked at the NPI.

After the turnaround in 1990 privatizations took place , as a result of which most of the previous employees were laid off. Now the city of Ilmenau and its inhabitants was confronted with a fundamental structural change. In 2002 the production started in 1777 had to be finally stopped.

Later, the production of various series of household and hotel tableware in Triptis began under the Graf von Henneberg brand by the local New Porcelain Factory Triptis . Hero Design , founded in 2002 by Heike Simon , had "[...] specialized in the distribution of" Graf von Henneberg porcelain "and advertised on their website:" We are the privatized Graf von Henneberg factory outlet ". The factory outlet closed on September 28, 2018.

Hero design

Shortly after the turn of the millennium, new production with around 50 employees was started on the old factory premises. Hero Design continued the Graf von Henneberg brand . The factory outlet also traded pieces from stocks prior to 2002.

Views after 1970

  • Porcelain factory 1973

  • Company logo in GDR times

  • General view 1981

  • Factory sales

  • overall view

See also

Media coverage (selection)

literature

  • Gottfelf Greiner : Current prices of the Fürtsl. Saxony-Weimar Porcelain Fabrick in Illmenau in courranten Waaren , Weimar: Ettinger, (1787)
  • VEB Henneberg-Porzellan Ilmenau. 200 years, 1777 - 1977, Henneberg-Porzellan , 38 pages, Ilmenau: VEB Henneberg-Porzellan, 1977
  • Helmut Scherf (text), Jürgen Karpinski (photographs): Thuringian porcelain with special consideration of the products of the 18th and early 19th centuries , 476 pages, Wiesbaden: Ebeling, 1980
  • Anke Hildebrand: Graf von Henneberg Porzellan GmbH, Illmenau , in this: Attitudes to luxury items using the example of high-quality porcelain. an empirical study in the Berlin population , diploma thesis 1995 at the University of Applied Sciences for Economics, Department of Economics, Berlin, 1995, p. 12, v. a. P. 142; Preview over google books

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, it says: “[...] Ilmenau porcelain is manufactured in Triptis today. Sales are still in Ilmenau. ”Compare Stefan Rohde-Enslin (Responsible): Collection:" Ilmenauer Porzellan " on the museum-digital.de page , last accessed on August 25, 2016

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Stefan Rohde-Enslin (responsible): Collection: "Ilmenauer Porzellan" on the museum-digital.de page , last accessed on August 25, 2016
  2. ↑ Viktor Karell, Maria Schimke: Nun, Christian on the page of the German biography
  3. ↑ a b Compare the information on the company and cross-references from the German National Library
  4. ^ Rolf H. Frowein (responsible): Graf von Henneberg on the page eschenbachporzellan.com , last accessed on August 25, 2016
  5. ↑ Rolf H. Frowein (responsible): Statement on the hero-design.de page, edited in October 2013, last accessed on August 25, 2016
  6. ^ Rolf H. Frowein (responsible): clearance sale on the hero-design.de page

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 36 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 13 ″  E