Oldest Volkstedter porcelain factory

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Leda with the swan, Volkstedt , around 1785

The oldest porcelain manufactory in Volkstedter is the oldest still producing porcelain factory in Thuringia .

history

It was founded on Georg Heinrich Macheleid back who, after years of trying in the glassworks luck Thal 1760 the composition of the right porcelain mass, the Arcanum discovered and the privilege of the sovereign establishing a porcelain factory already on September 8, 1760 Sitzendorf received. In 1762 the manufacture was relocated to Volkstedt near the royal court of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt .

Portrait of the merchant Christian Nonne;
Ink drawing by Franz Kotta , 1785, owned by the Angermuseum in Erfurt
“Portrait of the wife of the merchant Christian Nonne, Rosina Dorothea Nonne, b. Bellermann ”;
Franz Kotta, 1785, Angermuseum

In 1767 Christian Nonne leased the company and - after initial difficulties - then led it to great artistic and economic prosperity.

In 1782, Nonne also leased the Ilmenau porcelain factory and then moved to Ilmenau in 1800 .

Bauhaus ceramics

In 1923/24 the Aelteste Volkstedter carried out some designs by Bauhaus ceramists Theodor Bogler and Otto Lindig .

Transparent porcelain factory

In 1990, the Tettau porcelain factory , a subsidiary of Seltmann Weiden , took over the Aelteste Volkstedter porcelain factory. In 2006/07 the porcelain manufactory's factory building from the 18th century was converted into a glass porcelain factory. Visitors can now follow the handicraft creation of the works. Samples, models and forms are exhibited in the newly established factory museum.

Each manufacturing step is carried out entirely by hand. Famous historical facts and people were made in porcelain, for example “Escape of Countess Cosel ”, Frederick the Great , the dancer Fanny Elssler , and the Sanssouci flute concert .

See also

literature

  • Helmut Scherf (text), Jürgen Karpinski (photographs): Thuringian porcelain with special consideration of the products of the 18th and early 19th centuries , Ebeling, Wiesbaden 1980.
  • Jürgen Sattler: The oldest Volkstedter Porzellanfabrik AG and the former "Porcelain Palace" in Leipzig , in: Keramos 112, 1986, pp. 55–62.
  • Ekkehardt Kraemer: Saxon-Thuringian manufactory porcelain. Ed. V. Glass ceramics - People's own foreign trade company of the GDR, 3rd edition, Berlin 1987, pp. 14-17.
  • Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg (publisher): Volkstedter Porzellan, 1760–1800 , Rudolstadt 1999. ISBN 3-910013-31-7 .
  • Christoph Fritzsche: The oldest porcelain factory in Volkstedter. Your history from the foundation until today , Arnoldsche Art, Stuttgart 2013. ISBN 978-3-89790-397-5 .

Web links

Commons : Aelteste Volkstedter Porzellanmanufaktur  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Viktor Karell, Maria Schimke: Nonne, Christian on the page of the German biography
  2. ^ Klaus Weber (ed.): Ceramics and Bauhaus. History and effects of the ceramic workshop of the Bauhaus , exhibition catalog, Berlin 1989. ISBN 3-891-81404-6 . Ss. 86, 127-129.

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 35.4 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 18.7 ″  E