Peter Andries

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Peter Andries (born June 26, 1845 in Sankt Aldegund ; † July 18, 1910 in Trier ) was a German businessman and inventor of the Treveris wine glasses .

life and career

Peter Andries was the son of the winery owner Franz Josef Andries from Sankt Aldegund and his wife Barbara nee. Pauly. While the family was considered to be musically, graphically and technically gifted, Andries initially preferred to complete an apprenticeship as a businessman after completing his school education. Afterwards he went to Trier, not too far away, as he had expected better professional opportunities there than would have been the case in his home village. In Trier he married Elisabeth Seiwert on November 17, 1876, who was the daughter of the glazier Peter Seiwert and whose wife (a née Bammert) ran a flourishing glass and porcelain business.

Design of the Treveris glass

In the in-laws business, not only did Peter Andries' skills as a businessman prove to be an advantage, but also his talent for drawing. First he began to design motifs for art glazing. However, since the retail trade in the business was not particularly worthwhile, he joined a mail order business. Now Andries began to give his designs a more exclusive character by discussing his ideas with wine experts in order to be able to bring them to a better understanding of the enjoyment of wine in terms of shape and design. In 1885 he finally designed a crystal goblet, the so-called Treveris glass , for which he had the property rights secured at the district court in Trier for a period of 40 years. The peculiarity of this glass was not only that it was hand-blown, but also that it received a special manual cut in the form of 22 cross notches with acid-polished decoration.

Sales of glasses

At that time, Peter Andries signed the first production and purchase agreement with the Lorraine Christallerie St. Louis , whereby he always remained the sole rights holder for his product, which has now become the cultivated symbol of an entire wine-growing region. The main sales markets were the Eifel - Mosel - Hunsrück region, Luxembourg and parts of the Saarland . Even in the United States , the glasses were exported, but only until the outbreak of World War I stopped. After the death of Peter Andries in 1910, his son Josef continued the business. Since the north-eastern part of Lorraine was separated from the German Empire after the war , the existing treaty was canceled on both sides. From 1919 onwards, Treveris glasses were produced by the Wadgassen crystal glass factory , which was part of the Villeroy & Boch group of companies. Here the glasses were manufactured in large-scale production and still based on the original template until 1986. The end of production of the Treveris glasses at Villeroy & Boch, which are now badly imitated by other manufacturers and manufactured using the pressing process, was in 1990. The only remaining manufacturer of these crystal glasses was Spiegelau Glas , which had been producing the series since 1925. To this day, the series produced in Andries quality , with an estimated annual production of around 20,000 pieces, is one of the oldest drinking glass series in Germany and Europe .

literature

  • Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Andries, Peter . In: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District, Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , pp. 28-29.
  • Editing of the New Trierisches Jahrbuch : On the 75th anniversary of the death of Peter Andries, the creator of the Treviris glass. in: New Trierisches Jahrbuch 1961 ff, 1985, 67 f.
  • Willy Westermann: Peter Andries from St. Aldegund designed the Treveris glass. In: Heimatjahrbuch des Kreis Cochem-Zell 2007, pp. 132–135.
  • Heinz Monz (Ed.): Andries, Peter . In: Trier Biographisches Lexikon, Trier Wissenschaftlicher Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , pp. 28-29.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glashütte Wadgassen.Retrieved on November 3, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Andries, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Aldegund
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1910
Place of death trier