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Highest porcelain manufactory 1746 GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1746, re-established in 1947
resolution 1796
Reason for dissolution bankruptcy
Seat Frankfurt-Höchst
management Yung Wen Chung
Number of employees 10 (June 2018)
sales not specified
Branch porcelain
Website hoechster-porzellan.de
As of June 2018

The Höchst Porcelain Manufactory is a company for porcelain art in Frankfurt-Höchst .

The first time was in 1746 when they Kurfürstlich of Mainz porcelain factory by Johann Christoph Göltz and Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck (1714-1754), one of Meissen originating porcelain painter established. It is therefore the second oldest porcelain factory established in Germany and the only one in Hesse. The trademark of the Höchst Porcelain Manufactory is the Mainz wheel . The manufacture was granted the founding privilege and the monopoly for the Electoral Mainz area by the Archbishop of Mainz, Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein . One of the manufactory's most important artists was the Electoral Mainz court sculptor Johann Peter Melchior , who worked as a model master in Höchst for several years from 1768.

The first period of the porcelain manufacture 1746 to 1796

The old porcelain courtyard in the 18th century

Between 1746 and 1750, the manufactory in Höchst only produced faience . It was only when the arcanist Johann Kilian Benckgraff and the stove maker Josef Ringler came to the porcelain factory in 1750 that the first porcelain fires were made. A kiln was built on the northern city wall at the height of today's Höchst Market . The manufacturing building itself, called the Porzellanhof, was in the northern old town between Wed and Rosengasse (today Antoniterstraße); it was demolished in 1927.

Löwenfinck left Höchst in May 1749 after he had been forced out of the porcelain factory by Göltz; Johann Kilian Benckgraff and his son-in-law, the painter Johannes Zeschinger and the pussier Simon Feilner , had been poached by the porcelain manufacturer Fürstenberg in 1753 . Göltz went bankrupt in 1756 and the factory was closed. The company was taken over by Johann Heinrich Maas in 1759 and continued. During this time the chronicles repeatedly by disputes and massive physical altercations within the workforce of the Manufaktur . In 1765, the Höchst Porcelain Manufactory was converted into a stock corporation by a privilege granted by Elector Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim ; in 1771 the manufacture had 27 shareholders.

In 1777, the shareholders received a request from Elector Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal to agree to his conditions for the continuation of the company; on August 30, 1778, the elector dissolved the stock corporation. He handed over the management to his court chamber councilor Johann Kaspar Rief. In 1784 the porcelain factory became the property of the Mainzer Hofkammer, and in 1796, after 50 years of operation, it went bankrupt. The Mainz court chamber remained in debt of 57,312 guilders . In 1798, the entire legacy of the porcelain factory, including the shapes and models, was auctioned. As a result, the models were successfully continued to be produced by other companies into the 20th century. The floor mark , the Mainz wheel, also became one of the most frequently used unauthorized porcelain marks of the 19th century.

Revival after 1947

The porcelain manufactory's sales rooms in Palleskestrasse
Highest porcelain manufactory, Neuer Porzellanhof
Dalberger Haus , the manufactory's former sales building

At the instigation of the Höchst journalist and historian Rudolf Schäfer (1914–1985), the Höchst Porcelain Manufactory was founded in 1947 for the second time. In 1963 the company was again closed, but two years later the operation was led by Hoechst and Frankfurt bank Koch, Lauteren & Co. resumed. After Koch, Lauteren & Co. was taken over by Dresdner Bank in 1976 , it was a shareholder in the porcelain factory until 2001. From 2001 to 2010 the Investitionsbank Hessen and a private owner were the shareholders of the Höchst Porcelain Manufactory. In January 2011, the state of Hesse sold its stake in the porcelain factory to the private shareholders, making the company completely privately owned.

Even today, top-quality porcelains are shaped and painted by hand in Höchst . In the Kronberger Haus there has been a branch of the Frankfurt Historical Museum since 1994 , which shows the largest collection of old Höchster faiences and porcelain with around 1000 exhibits.

The porcelains from the Electoral Mainz porcelain manufacture form the basis of the Mainz Baroque collection in the Mainz State Museum . The collection contains both individual figures and thematically matching groups, e.g. B. the whole court of the Emperor of China.

The porcelain manufactory has been based in Dalberger Haus since 1977 , an aristocratic residence from 1577. In 1996 the production facility and in 2002 also the company headquarters were relocated to the Neue Porzellanhof , a listed industrial building from the early days on Höchst Palleskestrasse. Before moving out in 2011, only the sales rooms and a small porcelain exhibition in the vaulted cellar were left in the Dalberg house.

In 2009 the Höchst Porcelain Manufactory took over the production of the Hummel figurines from the Upper Franconian porcelain factory W. Goebel . Production takes place at the Rödental location under the name of Manufaktur Rödental . In 2012, the Rödental manufactory achieved sales of 5.5 million euros. On August 22, 2013, the managing director of Manufaktur Rödental GmbH filed for bankruptcy. In 2015, the New York investment company M. E. Zukerman & Co. took over the majority of shares in the Rödental manufactory.

Another bankruptcy was filed in January 2018. The operation was continued by the investor Evan Chung.

Porcelain Manufactory Products

  • Cup made of Höchst porcelain, the company logo at the bottom right

  • Logo on the bottom of a plate

  • Terrine in the shape of a boar's head, Höchst, around 1748

  • Dancer, Höchst, around 1755

  • The shoemaker's wife by Johann Peter Melchior , 1770

See also

literature

  • Reinhard Fichte, Margit Matthews (ed.): 250 years of Höchst Porcelain. Anniversary book. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-89466-163-1 .
  • Rudolf Schäfer : The Kurmainzische Porzellanmanufaktur zu Höchst aM and its employees in the economic and social upheaval of their time (1746–1796) (= Höchst Geschichtshefte. 5/6, ZDB -ID 504468-6 ). Association for history and antiquity eV, Frankfurt am Main-Höchst 1964.
  • Patricia Stahl: Highest porcelain. 1746-1796. Catalog for the exhibition Höchst Porcelain 1994, in the Historical Museum of the City of Frankfurt am Main. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-89466-120-8 .
  • Ernst Zais : The Kurmainzische Porzellan-Manufaktur zu Höchst. A contribution to the history of the German arts and crafts. Diemer, Mainz 1887, (reprint. Scherer, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-89433-023-6 ).

Movies

  • The Höchst Porcelain Story - White Gold from the Main. Documentary, Germany, 2012, 44:12 min., Script and direction: Dorothee Kaden, production: Hessischer Rundfunk , series: Made in Hessen , first broadcast: December 19, 2012 on hr-fernsehen , synopsis by ARD .
  • Ceramic: from tableware to high-tech. Knowledge broadcast, Germany, 2015, 26:13 min., Script and direction: Sylvie Kristan, Dorothee Kaden, Barbara Petermann, Stefan Venator, production: arte , moderation: Carolin Matzko and Gunnar Mergner , series: X: enius , first broadcast: 5. August 2015 at arte, summary of arte, online video .

Web links

Commons : Höchst Porzellanmanufaktur  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint. (No longer available online.) Höchst Porzellan-Manufaktur 1746, archived from the original on July 23, 2018 ; accessed on July 22, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hoechster-porzellan.de
  2. ↑ Kathrin Rosendorff: Höchst Manufaktur: When porcelain meets lifestyle. Frankfurter Rundschau , June 21, 2018, accessed on July 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Website Historisches Museum Frankfurt ; accessed on February 26, 2018
  4. ↑ Thorsten Winter: Managing Director buys shares. Country only customer of Höchst Porcelain. In: FAZ , January 11, 2011.
  5. ↑ dpa / lby: Hummel figures manufacturer has a new investor. In: Augsburger Allgemeine , January 13, 2009.
  6. ↑ Christoph Scheppe: Insolvency money is safe. In: Neue Presse Coburg , September 3, 2013, beginning of the article.
      Holger Vonhof: Porcelain Manufactory: Economic development should help. ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )     Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreisblatt.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Höchst Kreisblatt , from August 20, 2014.
  7. ↑ dpa : Hummel-Manufaktur goes to investment company from the USA. In: inFranken.de , June 2, 2015.
  8. ↑ Höchst Porcelain Manufactory files for bankruptcy. Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 19, 2018, accessed on August 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Tabea Stock: "White Gold" in the new old town. In: www.faz.net. June 21, 2018, accessed June 21, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 21.2 ″  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 19.4 ″  E