Veilsdorf monastery porcelain factory
The porcelain factory to Kloster Veilsdorf in the same place Kloster Veilsdorf was one of the oldest porcelain - factories in Germany and the second oldest in Thuringia . Today technical porcelain is produced here. The factory is a station on the Thuringian Porcelain Route .
history
This factory was founded in 1760 by Prince Eugen von Sachsen-Hildburghausen in the east of the village on the site of the Benedictine monastery founded in 1153 and destroyed in 1525 with the help of the arcanist Johann Hermann Meyer and the turner Nürnberger. Faience-like porcelains were still made until 1763 . Real hard-paste porcelain could only be produced after the arcanist Niklas Paul bought the secret of mass production . This resulted in the granting of the factory privilege as a princely porcelain factory Closter Veilsdorf in 1765, after which a number of civil foundations arose, which opened up new sources of income for the financially troubled state of Saxony-Hildburghausen .
After the death of Prince Eugen von Sachsen-Hildburghausen in 1797, the work was sold to the Greiner family of porcelain makers , who owned it until 1822. In 1822, the porcelain factory issued the Veilsdorf copper stamps as so-called factory money in the truck system as part of the wages of the workers. Technical porcelain has been included in production since 1863, which was later to replace artistic porcelain. In 1884 the company is converted into a public limited company.
During the Second World War , over 200 men and women, mainly from the Soviet Union and Poland, had to do forced labor in the porcelain factory at Kloster Veilsdorf .
In the time of the GDR , the work was a part of operation of the combine Ceramic Works Hermsdorf and made especially electro technical porcelain ago. In 1988 the company had 1200 employees. In 1990 the plant was given the legal status of a GmbH and was named Porzellanwerk Kloster Veilsdorf GmbH in Tridelta AG Hermsdorf , which was changed in 1994 to Tridelta GmbH, Veilsdorf process ceramics division . From 1992 to 1996 the company belonged to Jenoptik GmbH. In 1996 the factory was taken over by Rauschert GmbH Technical Ceramics and Plastic Moldings.
Porcelain production through the ages
Artistic porcelain has been produced in Veilsdorf since the company was founded. In Veilsdorf Monastery, crockery for the courtly table, candlesticks, boxes and, above all, figures with three-dimensional ornaments in fine modeling and masterful painting. All manufacturing and processing operations were carried out without electrically operated machines, which was unthinkable in the second half of the 18th century. Everything was solidly handcrafted.
Introduced by the industrial revolution , the conversion of production to technical articles began in 1863. Pressing processes and newly developed presses, such as an impact press and step press, were used to bring new technical items such as paint pots or upholstery nails into the desired shape.
Today the focus is on the production of electrotechnical porcelain and porcelain for various environmental applications. The technical products are used as insulators or, for example, as building materials for catalysts .
Anecdote about the technology of porcelain production
A homeworker named Neidnicht from Veilsdorf fell on the powdered mass, a kerosene lamp. Thus the oil mixed with the mass. From now on, the mass rose from the shape much more easily and more beautifully.
Even today, press oils are used to shape the mass. Envy-nothing discovery brought great progress in the processing of the mass for the manufacture of porcelain.
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- See also the list of porcelain manufacturers and manufacturers
- Lutz Heydick, Günther Hoppe, Jürgen John (eds.): Historischer Führer - Districts Erfurt, Gera, Suhl , Urania-Verlag, 1978.
- Dr. Rudi Greiner-Adam (ed.): History of the porcelain factory at Veilsdorf Monastery , Hildburghausen, Tridelta GmbH Hermsdorf, 1994.
- Weiss, Gustav (ed.): Ullstein Porcelain, A History of Style and History of Technology with a Trademark , Frankfurt am Main-Berlin, 1994.
- Geldmacher, Andrea: Porzellanland Thuringia. 250 years of porcelain from Thuringia , Jena, Verlag Städtische Museen, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933-1945 (ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to places of resistance and persecution 1933-1945 , series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser Volume 8 Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, p. 134 , ISBN 3-88864-343-0
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Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 1.6 ″ N , 10 ° 49 ′ 5 ″ E