Zschopenthal blue ink factory
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The Zschopenthal blue paint factory was a factory for the production of blue glass paint in the town of Zschopenthal, part of the Grünhainichen community .
history
The Zschopenthaler blue color factory was founded in 1649 by the Leipzig merchant Sebastian Oehme at the Sehma near Annaberg . On April 11, 1685, the electoral decision was made to relocate the Oehmeschen blue paint works to the Zschopenthal hammer mill. Problems with the procurement of firewood caused the co-owner Bergrat Caspar Sigismund von Berbisdorf in 1684 to apply for the relocation to Zschopenthal, where he already owned an iron hammer and the necessary building site in Zschopenthal. 1689 is reported about a tin hammer that made hotplates. In 1692 this work was moved to Neunzehnhain .
In 1687, the production of blue cobalt paint began, which was used to paint porcelain and ceramics . According to tradition, von Berbisdorf exported it to Delft and Venice . The blue paint factory had its own jurisdiction and had its own school.
On December 11th, 1848, the three blue color works Schindler , Niederpfannenstiel and Zschopenthal founded the Saxon Private Blue Color Works Association. As a result, blue color production was concentrated in Niederpfannenstiel. The factory in Zschopenthal was closed in 1850 and in 1855 the production of cobalt blue in the Schindlerswerk was discontinued in favor of synthetic ultramarine .
For three generations, the family of the chemist Clemens Winkler was in charge of the blue color factory : great-grandfather Christian Heinrich Winkler , grandfather ( August Fürchtegott Winkler ) and father ( Kurt Alexander Winkler ).
Already in 1848 the Zschopau master weaver Johann Gottlieb Wunderlich acquired the entire complex of works and converted it into a weaving mill that was highly modern for the time.
The buildings of the former blue paint factory have largely been preserved and have been maintained on a modest scale as industrial monuments for several years.
The old industrial plant consists of the three-storey factory building with cross vaults on the ground floor, the portal of which is marked with the year 1687, the half-timbered building with turret, bell and weather vane from 1719, the stable building and the massive, two-storey mansion with hipped roof .
present
The tradition of blue paintworkers has been cultivated for several years by the Zschopenthal Hüttenknappschaft group of the Waldkirchen home association .
literature
- The middle Zschopau area (= values of our homeland . Volume 28). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, pp. 137-139.
