Schindler's blue paintwork

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The Schindler blue color factory is located directly on the Zwickauer Mulde and belongs to the Zschorlauer district Albernau in the Saxon Ore Mountains .

history

Schindler's blue color factory, mansion (2018)
Schindler's blue color work on a map from 1791

On February 27, 1649 the Schneeberg merchant Erasmus Schindler bought a plot of land to build a blue paint factory on the Zwickauer Mulde near Albernau. On May 4, 1649, Elector Johann Georg I (Saxony) gave him the privilege to build the plant. It was called the Schindlerswerk blue color factory after its founder . After the construction of a manor house and other smelter and production buildings, a workers' settlement developed here. Schindler received the privilege on the same terms as the blue paint factory, also founded in 1649 by the Leipzig merchant Sebastian Oehme in Sehma, and the already existing works by the Schneeberg city judge and tradesmen Johann Burkhardt in Oberschlema and by Veit Hans Schnorr in Niederpfannenstiel . On September 11, 1649, a new cobalt contract was concluded between the four blue paint factories. This cobalt contract regulated the amount of cobalt mined and the blue color products produced and prescribed the buy-up prices for cobalt. At the same time, Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony guaranteed that he would not allow any further blue color works in the Electorate of Saxony. In 1659 the blue color works agreed on uniform sales prices. The trade then took place through a trading company with defeats in Schneeberg and Leipzig.

In 1751, Elector Friedrich August II acquired 2 2/9 kuxe of the work. In 1851, 3 further Kuxe were transferred to the Saxon State Treasury as a compensation payment.

On March 1, 1827, parts of the plant were destroyed by a flood. The factory premises were also flooded on March 23rd and December 11th. June 1827 and February 1830.

On December 11th, 1848, the three blue color works Schindler, Niederpfannenstiel and Zschopenthal founded the Saxon Private Blue Color Works Association. As a result, blue color production was concentrated in Niederpfannenstiel. The factory in Zschopenthal was closed in 1850 and in 1855 the production of cobalt blue in the Schindlerswerk was discontinued in favor of synthetic ultramarine . In 1856, after the factory had been rebuilt, production began. However, production until 1860 was more like a test operation. As a result of the technology used from 1860 onwards, the plant's smoke gases were heavily contaminated with sulphurous acid. Within a relatively short time this led to forest dieback in the vicinity of the plant. Hans Karl August von Trebra-Lindenau , who sued Schindler's work in 1863, was also affected . Closure of the plant could only be prevented by cleaning the flue gases. Clemens Winkler , who had worked as a smelter at the Niederpfannenstiel blue paint works since 1862, took on the matter. The production of the plant had meanwhile increased to 160 tons of ultramarine per year. After many unsuccessful attempts, Winkler succeeded in cleaning the flue gases. The method of absorption by limestone used, which brought the breakthrough in flue gas cleaning in a large-scale test in 1877 , was patented by the Saxon Private Blue Color Works Association on October 20, 1878. Ultramarine production had now risen to 250 tons per year.

present

As Schindlerswerk GmbH & Co. KG , it is today probably the world's oldest paint factory that is still producing. It is linked to a long tradition of the production of blue cobalt pigments and the commercial manufacture of color pigments . In recent times the production u. a. expanded to include various paints . Linen blue is also produced.

The blue color factory Schindler's factory is a selected site in the Ore Mountains mining region for the candidacy for UNESCO World Heritage status .

A support association was founded in August 2017. This should take care of the preservation of various buildings and museum use.

literature

  • George Körner : Brief historical news from the Freyguthe Albernau and Schindlerisch blue color works on the Mulde near Schneeberg in the Meissnian Upper Ore Mountains , 1763 ( digitized in the SLUB Dresden )
  • Yearbook for mining and metallurgy in the Kingdom of Saxony 1901
  • Yearbook for mining and metallurgy in the Kingdom of Saxony 1880
  • Cobalt mining and blue paint works in Saxony up to 1653, W. Bruchmüller, 1897
  • The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, pp. 93–95.

Web links

Commons : Schindlersches Blaufarbenwerk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schindlerswerk is mixing grandma’s laundry miracles again today . Free press , March 21, 2015.

Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 27.2 "  N , 12 ° 39 ′ 25.8"  E