Stockelsdorf faience factory
The Stockelsdorf faience factory was a north German manufacturer of faience in Stockelsdorf near Lübeck in the 18th century .
In the 18th century, faiences around the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe were booming. The most famous German manufactory at that time was certainly the Stralsund faience factory , which existed in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund from 1755 to 1792 . Attempts to establish such a factory in Stockelsdorf initially failed due to the close competition from the Kiel faience factory . But when it had to close in 1771, the time for Stockelsdorf had come. On the grounds of the Stockelsdorf estate , its then owner Georg Nicolaus Lübbers (1724–1788) founded the Stockelsdorf faience factory together with the manager of the closed Kiel manufactory, Johann Georg Buchwald , which also took over the employees of the Kiel manufactory. The problem of selling their products was exacerbated in particular by import duties in the Schleswig-Holstein duchies and Denmark. The nearby Hanseatic city of Lübeck even issued an import ban on products from the Stockelsdorf factory to protect the city's potters' guild . Therefore, the Stockelsdorf faience factory had to close in 1786.
Despite all the adversities, the Stockelsdorf manufactory was able to develop an excellent reputation that extends beyond northern Germany in the short period of its existence. Despite the import ban at the time, evidence of the high-quality work in the form of a Stockelsdorf stove can be found in the Behnhaus Museum in Lübeck and other pieces in the faience collections of the St. Annen Museum , in the Ostholstein Museum Eutin and at Gut Schierensee .
- Work pieces
Braided rim plate from the Stockelsdorf faience factory
Potpurri (without lid) from the Stockelsdorf faience factory
A "Stockelsdorf oven" from the Stockelsdorf faience factory
literature
- Ulrich Pietsch : Stockelsdorf faience. In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde, Eutin. Volume 19, 1985, ISSN 1866-2730 , pp. 44-54.
- Ulrich Pietsch: Stockelsdorf faience. History and performance of a Holstein manufacture in the 18th century. Graphic workshops, Lübeck 2000, ISBN 3-925402-32-2 .
