Aumund faience factory

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The faience factory in Aumund (mostly imprecisely referred to in the literature as " Faience factory Vegesack" ) was a factory for ceramic products that only produced between 1751 and 1761 in today's Uhthoffstrasse in Vegesack , which until 1804 belonged to the Hanoverian village of Aumund.

history

Faience was because of their resemblance to porcelain produced in numerous German manufacturers since the 18th century. These include the production facility in Vegesack-Aumund and the Lesum faience factory in what is now the state of Bremen .

The older one in Aumund was created on the initiative of the Bremen merchant Dietrich Terhellen. In 1750 he acquired a site in Aumund on today's Uhthoffstrasse (formerly Bremerstrasse), which at that time was in Hanoverian territory. With his brother Wilhelm and his brother-in-law Johann Christoph Mühlhausen, he signed a contract on October 25, 1752 for the construction of a seven-building factory. Although the company mainly produced unglazed clay molds for the needs of confectioners, which could be sold as far as Hamburg and Denmark, high-quality faience dishes were also made. Johann Christoph Vielstich (1722–1800) from Braunschweig has been its technical director since the manufacture was established . In 1755 he left Aumund to set up his own factory in Lesum, which must be considered more productive and important. Until this year, the products were labeled with the MTT brand .

Mühlhausen died on April 2, 1755 and the Terhellen brothers continued to run the business (brand: P&WT ), but the dispute over the inheritance and the Danish import ban led to closure and bankruptcy from 1756. 1759 Bremer acquired Eltermann Albrecht d'Erber box manufacturer (brand: AvE ). A privilege that was supposed to secure him the manufacture and sale of faience in the Duchy of Bremen-Verden , he could not adequately serve, so it was withdrawn from him on April 14, 1760. The following year, d'Erberfeld died and the factory died. In 1802 the “Stadt Hamburg” inn was established in the old buildings, which was replaced by new buildings around 1890.

Due to the sensitivity of the material and the short duration of the manufacture, only a few material evidence of Aumund production has survived. Some examples can be found in the Focke-Museum Bremen and in the Heimatmuseum Schloss Schönebeck . If there are no brands, the products of the two faience manufacturers cannot always be clearly distinguished.

literature

  • Lüder Halenbeck : History of the City of Vegesack. A contribution to local history and the history of Bremen. 2nd, expanded edition. Rohr, Vegesack 1893, pp. 161-165.
  • W. Gerhold: Faience production in the eighteenth century in and around Bremen. In: Yearbook of the Bremen Collections. Vol. 4, 1911, ZDB -ID 401790-0 , pp. 60-75, ( digitized version ).
  • Heinz Wilhelm Haase: The Terhellen faience factories in Vegesack and Vielstich in Lesum. In: Heinz-Peter Mielke (Hrsg.): Keramik an Weser, Werra and Fulda (= writings of the Minden Museum for History, Regional and Folklore. Art History Series. H. 1). Uhle and Kleimann, Lübbecke 1981, ISBN 3-922657-20-6 , pp. 145-152.
  • A. Graupner: Faience raw materials and manufactories in north-western Lower Saxony In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 74, 1974, 207-225. (Vegesack et al.)