Annaburg porcelain
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1874 |
| resolution | 2015 |
| Seat | Annaburg , Germany |
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| Number of employees | about 80 |
| sales | EUR 3.45 million (2008) |
| Branch | porcelain |
| Website | www.annaburg-porzellan.de |
The Annaburg Porzellan GmbH was a manufacturer of household and hotel porcelain in Anna Castle in Saxony-Anhalt .
history
Earthenware Manufactory (1874–1883) (1st epoch)
The beginnings of Annaburg Porzellan GmbH go back to the year 1874. The main products of manufacture were kitchen sets, which were manufactured in the first round ovens built between 1874 and 1876.
Annaburger Stoneware Factory (1883–1895)
In 1883 the stoneware manufacture was taken over by Adolph Heckmann with 10 employees and founded as the Annaburger stoneware factory . Most of the company was given its current appearance. Supported by technical innovations, an enormous upswing began, which secured work for 325 employees.
On July 1, 1895, Adolph Heckmann sold the plant, which also included another company in Magdeburg-Neustadt . Both plants became the property of a stock corporation .
Annaburger Steingutfabrik AG (1895–1945)
When Heckmann's stoneware factory was taken over for 1 million gold marks , the property was 220,322 m² including dwellings for officials and workers. There were already 12 kilns in which high quality stoneware, art pottery and sculptures were burned. The main registered shareholder was Carl Untucht & Co. from Berlin, businessman Gustav Müller and Hans Untucht, both from Annaburg.
During the economic crisis from 1899 to 1901, sales collapsed, wages were cut as a result and the range was switched to the production of two kitchen sets, one wash set, and milk pots and plates. By 1906 the workforce grew to around 600 people. A fire in the same year partially destroyed the factory and so it was necessary to build a new painting and a new sorting room. In 1909 the factory received its first tunnel kiln and was henceforth able to produce high quality earthenware.
After the end of the First World War, the workforce decreased to around 300 people in 1918, but increased again to over 600 people from 1924 to 1928 due to a boom. The unemployment that started at the end of 1928, caused by the global economic crisis from 1928 to 1932, had a direct impact on the earthenware factory, so that the workforce was reduced by half.
Before and during the Second World War, the company was continued as a stock corporation by Director Schäfer and later owner Hans Untucht. Production was maintained by prisoners of war during the war years. The end of Annaburger Steingut AG was sealed by Hans Untucht's suicide on July 9, 1945.
1945–1989 (2nd epoch)
From the end of the war to the opening of the border, the Annaburg plant produced under the following names:
- Annaburger stoneware factory 1946
- Industrie-Werk Sachsen, Annaburg stoneware factory 1947
- Association of state-owned companies in the construction and building materials industry of Saxony-Anhalt, Annaburger Steingutfabrik, Annaburg / Torgau district 1948
- Association of state-owned enterprises (G) building materials Saxony-Anhalt, Annaburger stoneware factory, Torgau district 1949
- VVB ceramics, Annaburger stoneware factory, Annaburg / Torgau district 1950
- VEB Steingutwerk Annaburg / District Jessen 1953
- VEB Porzellankombinat Colditz, Annaburg plant 1970
- VEB Sintolanwerk Annaburg, operation of the VEBorzellankombinat Colditz 1973
- VEB United Porcelain Works Colditz, Annaburg plant 1980
Annaburg Porzellan GmbH (1990–1992) (3rd epoch)
With the German reunification , the plant was separated from the Kombinatsverband Kahla and the United Porcelain Works Colditz and continued under the authority of the Treuhandanstalt Berlin as an independent company "Annaburg Porcelain GmbH".
Annaburg Porzellan GmbH (1992 to 2015)
On July 1, 1992, the privatization by the Treuhandanstalt Berlin to the company Ceraplan GmbH took place . This guaranteed the continued existence of this traditional company, which was to be closed by the Treuhandanstalt and the state on December 31, 1991. Until 2015, Annaburg Porzellan was the only tableware producer in Saxony-Anhalt.
The product range has been completely changed and adapted to the needs of the domestic and foreign market. Due to the machine equipment, the plant was able to manufacture individual products in small batches. The specialization in the areas of the hotel and catering trade were just as important pillars as the development and trademark registration of a specially developed refractory material. The Cordoflam brand was a registered trademark of Annaburg Porzellan since December 2010 .
The company had a small factory museum in which the history of Annaburg porcelain is presented. Courses for onglaze painting and underglaze painting on porcelain were offered here.
In May 2015, the insolvency application was submitted to the responsible bankruptcy court in Dessau-Roßlau . At the end of July 2015, operations in Annaburg Porzellan were discontinued.
literature
- 125 years of Annaburg porcelain: quality porcelain made in Germany. Self-published by Annaburg Porzellan GmbH 6/99.
Individual evidence
- ^ Sven Gückel: Economy: Annaburger Porzellan files for bankruptcy . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed June 29, 2017]).
- ↑ Company closure in Annaburg: the city regrets the end of the porcelain factory . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed June 29, 2017]).
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 '47.1 " N , 13 ° 2' 27.9" E