Wallendorfer porcelain
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| founding | 1764 |
| Seat | Wallendorf , Thuringia |
| Website | wallendorfer-porzellan.de |
The Wallendorfer Porzellanmanufaktur was founded on March 30, 1764 in Lichte- Wallendorf in Thuringia and is one of the oldest porcelain manufacturers in Europe. The Wallendorf brand was sold to an Iranian investor in 2016 and Porzellan Manufaktur Lichte-Wallendorf GmbH was converted into Design House Lichte GmbH.
history
A good 50 years after the invention of porcelain by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and Johann Friedrich Böttger , Johann Wolfgang Hammann from Katzhütte at the Fürstenhof in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt asked for a concession to manufacture porcelain in September 1760 . Only three days before, however, the same concession was granted exclusively to GH Macheleid , so that Hammann's request was rejected. However, Johann Wolfgang Hammann did not give up his dream of producing “ white gold ” that quickly and a year later he succeeded in firing hard-paste porcelain for the first time in Katzhütte . Another year later he acquired the "Freiherr von Hohenthalsche " manor in Wallendorf on the territory of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld .
After the Duke of Saxony-Coburg granted the concession to manufacture porcelain on March 30, 1764, Wolfgang Hammann founded the porcelain manufactory in Lichte (Wallendorf), one of the oldest in Europe, together with his son and the glass painter Gottfried Greiner and his cousin Gotthelf Greiner . The Wallendorfer porcelain was originally fired from raw materials from the area, so that the shards were unclean and tinted accordingly. As early as 1780, however, through the purchase and use of Bohemian kaolin, pure white shards were burned, so that in 1793 Wilhelm Martius said of Wallendorf porcelain: "It is dazzling white, ... finely ground and so hard that there are sparks on the steel."
The manufacture was then owned by the Hammann family until 1833. This was followed by varied years, in which the Wallendorf porcelain factory found itself in the hands of different owners, names that still stand for porcelain tradition and quality today: Hutschenreuther , Kampf, Sontag, Heubach, Fraureuth and Heinz Schaubach . The changing owners and the economic ups and downs manifest themselves not least in the large number of floor brands used, which were at times heavily based on the Meissen trademark, which led to several warnings from the electoral Saxon state authority. The current brand (W) with a crossed helmet crown and the founding year 1764 was introduced 200 years after the founding of the Wallendorf porcelain factory.
Owner since 1763
The owners of the Wallendorfer Porzellanmanufaktur were:
| from ... to | Surname | annotation | |
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| 1. | 1763-1772 | Johann Wolfgang Hammann and Gotthelf Greiner | Founder of the manufactory |
| 2. | 1772-1786 | Ferdinand Friedrich Hammann | Sole family property of the Hammanns |
| 3. | 1786-1811 | Anna Margarethe Hammann | |
| 4th | 1811-1829 | Ferdinand Friedrich Hammann | |
| 5. | 1829-1833 | Friedrich Christian Hutschenreuther and his son-in-law Hermann Kieser | Company tenants |
| 6th | 1833-1839 | Christian Hutschenreuther, Friedrich Kampf and Gabriel Heubach | |
| 7th | 1839-1897 | Fights and Heubach | |
| 8th. | 1897-1915 | Fights and Heubach | Fights and Heubach GmbH |
| 9. | 1915-1919 | - Closure of the porcelain factory - | |
| 10. | 1919-1926 | Branch of the Porzellanfabrik Fraureuth AG | |
| 11. | 1926-1932 | Fights and Heubach | |
| 12. | 1932-1953 | Heinz Schaubach | Company name: Schaubach Kunst |
| 13. | 1953-1990 |
State-owned company under the management of the following directors: |
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| 14th | 1991-1994 | Trust | |
| 15th | 1994-2000 | Herbert Hillebrand | |
| 16. | 2000-2006 | Svenja Hillebrand, Herbert Claesgen | Siblings Hillebrand GmbH |
| 17th | 2006-2010 | Erich Johannes Bruckert | Bruckert Beteiligungsgesellschaft (mbH) |
| 18th | 2010-2014 | Erich Johannes Bruckert | Wallendorfer Porzellan Immobilien GmbH and Co. KG., Erich J. Bruckert was the limited partner |
| 19th | 2014-2016 | Yihong Mao | Porcelain Manufactory Lichte-Wallendorf GmbH |
| 2016– | "Design House Lichte GmbH" | ||
tradition
The Wallendorfer Porzellanmanufaktur has retained its traditional manufactory character to this day. What began in 1764 with the artisanal production of coffee, tea and chocolate services and was supplemented by figurative representations from 1785, still describes the products of the Wallendorf porcelain factory today, together with various decorative and basket series.
Although the slip (thick porcelain mass) is no longer mixed according to the original "alchemical arcanum " from the early days, the recipe, which has been further developed over decades, is still a carefully guarded manufacturing secret. What has remained, however, is the artisanal manufacturing process.
Old Wallendorf
In East Friesland in particular, the Wallendorfer Porzellanmanufaktur's services, the so-called “Dresmer Teegood”, are very popular. After a production break of more than 70 years, these are manufactured again according to the old original shapes and decors Blau Dresmer, Rot Dresmer, Ostfriesische Rose. Since the original production documents were lost in the turmoil of the war and post-war years, the production forms and décor templates were faithfully reproduced from original pieces, partly from museums and partly by private collectors. So the real Dresmer Teegood can be produced in its original form again. The figurative representations of the Wallendorf porcelain manufactory are also highly valued. The majority of all figures are glazed white or made as bisque porcelain and each one is unique, poured into shapes, assembled and painted by hand ( porcelain painting ). Another area of the Wallendorf porcelain manufactory are gifts, vases, candlesticks, bowls, boxes, etc. in filigree shapes with decors ranging from classic Indian blue to spring-like bird and flower motifs.
production
Although the Wallendorfer Porzellan Manufaktur values historical production methods, it also has modern technology. For example, isostatic presses and die casting systems are used in production. The takeover of the manufactory in April 2006 led to many changes. Wallendorfer Porzellan Manufaktur GmbH is producing bone china for the first time .
Bone China is particularly valued for its creamy white color, its high impact resistance and its brilliant surface. The secret of its dense and extremely translucent body lies in its composition. In addition to kaolin , feldspar and quartz sand , it contains a 52 percent share of burned bone ash, from which the name bone china is derived.
See also
Web links
literature
- Wilhelm Stieda: The beginnings of porcelain manufacture on the Thuringian Forest Jena 1902, p. 71 ff.
- Wallendorfer Porzellan Manufaktur GmbH: Floor marker board, picture archive
- Ekkehardt Kraemer (ed.): Saxon-Thuringian manufactory porcelain. Glass ceramic. People's own foreign trade company of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1985. 3rd expanded edition 1987, pp. 44–47.
Individual evidence
- ^ Porcelain tradition in light at the end of the Ostthüringer Zeitung, February 4, 2016.
- ↑ Dr. Wilhelm Stieda: The beginnings of porcelain manufacture on the Thuringian Forest , Verlag Gustav Fischer, Jena 1902, p. 151
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '30.4 " N , 11 ° 11' 35.9" E