Poschinger glass factory
| Freiherr von Poschinger Glasmanufaktur e. K. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | one-man business |
| founding | 1568 |
| Seat | Frauenau |
| management | Benedikt Freiherr Poschinger von Frauenau |
| Number of employees | 25th |
| Branch | Custom and special designs, sight glass |
| Website | www.poschinger.de/ |
The Poschinger glass factory is a manufacturer of glassware based in Frauenau in the Bavarian Forest . The company was founded in 1568, making it the oldest glass manufacturer in Germany and the oldest in the world in continuous family ownership.
history
The glassworks owned by the Poschinger family was first mentioned in 1569. In the first three centuries of its existence, the company changed frequently. Initially, production was carried out in a wooded location where wood was available as heating material until the forests in the area were exhausted and the wood supply was used up. Every forty to sixty years, a new plant was built at a different location where sufficient wood resources were available. The product range included church windows, goblets and drinking glasses.
In the first half of the 19th century, the company under Johann Michael von Poschinger and its production facilities became established, which is also due to the fact that from then on easily transportable coal was available as heating material. In 1835, Johann Michael von Poschinger built the mirror factory in Oberfrauenau and the associated grinding shop on the Kleiner Regen . The Moosauhütte in (Unter-) Frauenau, which he put into operation in 1848, is today's Poschingerhütte, which is the only one of at least four glassworks operated by him to produce to this day. The high quality of the plate glass produced there was officially recognized at the First General German Industrial Exhibition in Munich in 1854 . This was a competitive advantage over the Bohemian glass manufacturers that dominated the market at the time.
After Johann Michael had a fatal accident in 1863, his son Georg Benedikt II von Poschinger took over the management. This provided a connection to the Zwiesel – Grafenau railway line , which ensured the supply of coal. He was succeeded as owner from 1900 by his brother Eduard Ferdinand. The latter leased the glassworks from 1905 to 1924 to Isidor Gistl , who then managed to become independent with the Gistl glassworks through skillful entrepreneurial action . While Gistl was running the Poschinger factory, the number of employees rose from 150 to 500.
The company was then managed by Hippolyt Poschinger von Frauenau , who handed it over to his son Stephan in 1980. Benedikt Poschinger has been running the company as the fifteenth member of the family since 2007.
In addition to the glass manufacture, the Poschinger family owns the largest private forest property in Lower Bavaria.
present
The mass products such as beer glasses, which were mainly produced in the middle of the last century, were no longer economical to manufacture. The range today consists of high-quality special and custom-made products. In addition to drinking glasses, glasses for medical technology, spare parts for lamps and glass for historical windows are manufactured. Guided tours are also offered where visitors can blow a glass ball themselves. Cultural events take place in former manufacturing halls and the Poschinger glass factory is also present outside of production with a sculpture park and studios for glass artists.
Awards
- Gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris 1900.
literature
- Helmut Bruckner: Fragile goods preserved through centuries , The history of the Poschinger Glashütte Frauenau, 1998
- Ingeborg Seyfert: The Poschinger von Frauenau as glassworkers in the Bavarian Forest , in: Official school gazette for the administrative region of Lower Bavaria, Volume 5, 1971.
- Max Peinkofer : 350 years of Poschinger in Frauenau , Frauenau 1955.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Own website
- ^ Peter May : The entrepreneur as boss, manager and private person , Campus-Verlag, 2006, pp. 15-16 online
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Schmoll von Eisenwerth's biography on biographien.ac.at. Retrieved November 4, 2015
Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 3.6 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 6.9 ″ E