Glashütte Glücksburg

The Glashütte Glücksburg was a Saxon glassworks in the Glücksburger Heide not far from the Glücksburg hunting lodge in the Seyda district in what is now Saxony-Anhalt .

history

After the Pretzsch glassworks had come to a standstill due to a lack of firewood, on July 18, 1699 , August the Strong asked the Landjägermeister George Heinrich von Carlowitz and the forest and game master Theodorus Eberwein to move this glassworks to a new location in the densely wooded authorities Schweinitz , Seyda or Schlieben . Carlowitz, Eberwein and the glass manufacturers Fremel then inspected the area themselves and made several proposals to the Elector on August 11, 1699. On May 28, 1700, the elector decided on the Glücksburg location . He ordered the construction of two new glassworks. One was to be built in front of the Wilsdruffer Tor in Dresden (→ Ostra-Allee ) and the second at the Glücksburg hunting lodge. The three Italian brothers from the Fremel family of glassmakers received the building contract. They were allowed to rent the Glücksburg hunting lodge, only the castle chapel was locked.

Egon Fürst zu Fürstenberg, Curdt Heinrich von Einsiedel and Gottfried von Ryßel testified in Dresden on May 27, 1700 that the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony had noticed that the glass factory, which was formerly established in Pretzsch, was of great importance for the state and trade , but such can no longer exist due to a lack of the firewood required for their operation. Therefore the elector-king felt motivated to have two new glassworks built. One "next to a grinding mill in the local resident town on the so-called Stackische Hammer, which is located in front of the Wilßdruffer Thore and bought for this purpose, and the other in the Ambte Seida on the so-called Hauße Gkücksburgk". To improve the transport of the huts, the governor Fürstenberg and the district chamber councilor Joachim Plötz were employed as co-trades for two years. The elector-king left the construction of both new glassworks to the brothers Constantin, Maximilian and George Fremeln for two years. A nine-point contract was signed with them that day.

On May 28, 1700, Egon Fürst zu Fürstenberg wrote in the name of the Elector-King Friedrich August to the Landjägermeister of the Elector, Meißner and Leipzig district Georg Heinrich von Carlowitz in Torgau and shared with him a. a. with: "You already know what shape we intend to build a glass hut on our forest and hunting house in Glücksburgk, because the one at Prezsch can no longer exist due to lack of wood, so we end up with the brothers who are foreigners, to whom we hand over the preparation and continuation of the whole work, incorporated into a contract, and whatever has been dealt with and discussed with them can be seen in several ways from the enclosed copy. Now then by virtue of the same respected foreigners, among others, also named hunting house to their apartment along with the inventory, but that they receive such things as they are inhabited by them in structural beings at their expense, including the inventory, as much as it is given to them, completely and Replace without leaving, also the 60 thalers. To credit the interest from the time of the work begun, to pay annually to the office and to be sure during the defensive rent in addition to the reserved income, which has also been pacified that imaginary foreigners should be assigned a spacious place to build a glass hut. "

On June 9, 1700, the electoral forestry and game master Theodor Eberwein zu Annaburg informed the bailiff Johann Christoph Trebitz that the elector of Saxony intended to "transport the glass hut from Prezsch near Glücksburgk" and that he was already the master hunter of the cure, Meißner and Leipzig district Georg Heinrich von Carlowitz invited "to investiture" on June 14, 1700. He himself should also take part. Eberwein therefore invites the Seyda bailiff to the meeting and asks him to be in Glücksburg at 7 or 8 a.m. to prepare everything. He later suggested continuing the negotiations in Seyda, where they also wanted to spend the night.

Julius Heinrich Meyer was hired on September 7, 1701 as an accountant (smelter factor) for the glassworks in Dresden and Glücksburg and managed both plants together. As the tenant of the huts, he was directly involved in the income of both huts for six years from 1709. In 1717 he was referred to as the "Inspector of Glass Manufactures".

In the years 1715 and 1716, the ironworks factor Heinrich Rothe managed the plants in Glücksburg and Dresden. The joint management of both glassworks ended in 1717, as Franz Wilhelm Helwig became a new factor at Glashütte Glücksburg.

In 1722, the Annaburg forest and game master complained about the increasing disturbance of the game in the Glücksburg Thiergarten by the local glassmakers and the rubbish in their houses. The elector then ordered that access to the glassworks only had to be via the castle courtyard and that no more rubbish or rubbish could be dumped in the Thiergarten.

Due to the increasing shortage of wood in the Glücksburger Heide, there were repeatedly projects to relocate the hut to areas with more wood, such as in 1739 to Doberlug or 1750/51 to the Spreewald in Neu Zauche . In 1749, Hüttenmeister Hellwig moved to the Baruther Glashütte. Their chronicle reports: "Under Hellwig, the hut had developed a lot and his capable workers, whom he had brought with him from Glücksburg, the smelter Wander, the glassmakers Göhlsdorf, Zietz, Flemmer, Biltz, Schindler and Greiner, kept the good reputation through hard work and skill the same". In 1751 the hut in Glücksburg was closed for the first time due to a lack of wood. During the Seven Years' War the glassworks was looted and partially destroyed by Prussian troops . Production came to a complete standstill after the end of the war.

production

The bottle and window glass produced in Glücksburg was of good quality and very popular. For example, in 1728 glass was produced to the value of around 21,500 thalers.

literature

• Gisela Haase: Saxon glass. History, centers, decorations. License issue. Klinkhardt u. Biermann, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7814-0273-8 , p. 284.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt , D Seyda, No. 132