Schorborn glass factory

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The Schorborn glass factory was located on northeast Solling and consisted of several buildings.

founding

Former mansion of the glass factory in Schorborn

The Ortswüstung Schorborn was 1744/45 with the investment of the Princely hollow and flat glass hut on Schorbornsteich as glassworks by Duke Karl I of Brunswick with the substantial work of the Chamber Council revived Thomas Ziesich.

As early as 1776, the “green furnace” (i.e. the plant used for the production of green glass) of the glassworks was moved to just 2.9 kilometers to the southeast due to a lack of wood in Schorborn by the tenant Christian Friedrich Wackerhagen (1741–1790, bailiff in Allersheim and Bevern ) The preferred Pilgrim at Heinade laid. Later, in 1783 under the hut tenant Georg Christoph Seebass (1734–1806), the white glass works was also divided and only white hollow glass with sometimes elaborate decorations was produced in Schorborn, while table glass and medical glass were produced in Mühlenberg. His father's successor was Friedrich Christian Werner Seebass (1769–1843), who married Wackerhagen's daughter Juliane Friederike Wilhelmine (1787–1819), and after this his son Johann Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm (1810–1877).

In Schorborn, a technical process for the production of colorless glass was developed. According to the local researcher Otto Bloss, it was called "Christallglas" and was used for fine art cutting and grinding. The Schorborner Hütte and the Spiegelglashütte on the Green Plan in Grünenplan covered the glass needs of the Duchy of Braunschweig .

Products

The hut's products initially consisted of green glass for window panes and hollow glass, although the green hollow glass was mainly sold in the country. But it also made its way to areas "abroad". The white hollow glass went to Hanover and beyond to Nordhausen and Leipzig. The plate glass found its buyers in Braunschweig, Hameln, Göttingen and other places. From 1768 z. B. cut cups with coat of arms and name with and without a lid. Furthermore, flower pots, centerpieces, chandeliers, fruit baskets, confectionery bowls, wine, beer and pointed glasses (for schnapps and liqueurs) were made. In addition to physical and optical glasses, medical glasses have also been manufactured since 1878. In the second half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, the products of the Schorborn glass manufacture were leading in the upper Weser area due to their variety of shapes and designs. The glassmakers showed wide creativity and high productivity. The personalities who worked for the hut included the princely glass cutter Johann Heinrich Balthasar Sang and the glass cutter, gilder and glass painter Johann Nicolaus Fleischhauer.

closure

The glassworks in Schorborn was relocated within Schorborn after a renovation and a change of location (from today's village square to the curve of today's Glashüttenweg). It was closed for the first time in 1841, but finally in 1905. The reason for the abandonment of the glassworks in Solling is mainly the distance to trade routes as well as the high transport costs for coal and other raw materials from the Arholzen train station to Schorborn and the resulting difficult sales situation.

Attractions

The former glass mill at the mill pond in Schorborn

The house of the former glassworks master Johann Konrad Seitz and the forester's house, i.e. the former manor house, date from the founding time of the glassworks in the 18th century . Despite multiple conversions, both houses still show typical architectural forms and details from the construction period.

The Schorborn glassworks is the first fixed glassworks in the Solling after the forest glassworks that have been relocated again and again . The place Schorborn was "newly founded" in connection with the glassworks. The construction of the settlement "long series" began. Those who wanted to build got the lumber for free and got tax breaks. The glassworks was built on the village square that still exists today, but has since been reduced in size.

Comparable systems

Almost simultaneously came a glassworks for container glass with the glass factory Holzen at Ith and the mirror glass factory on the Green Plan in Grünenplan in Hils . The foundations served to build up a manufacturing business in Braunschweig's Weser district in the time of the flourishing mercantilism in the 18th century. The mirror glass works Amelith was created as a Hanoverian counter-foundation .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When the Duke became an entrepreneur, press release on the special exhibition “Treasures made of sand and ashes - made in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel” in the Wolfenbütteler Castle Museum from March 11th to July 2nd, 2017
  2. ↑ Dr. Christian Leiber: A Bouteillen-Manufaktur (1744-1768) near Holzen, Southern Lower Saxony at: 3rd International Symposium on Archaeological Research into Medieval and Early Modern Glassworks in Europe from July 21 to 23, 2006 in Heigenbrücken / Spessart. Accessed on January 1, 2014.

Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 17.7 "  N , 9 ° 34 ′ 33.7"  E