Zeller ceramics
| Zeller Keramik Manufaktur GmbH & Co KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1794 |
| Seat | Zell am Harmersbach , Germany |
| management | Ralf Mueller |
| Branch | Ceramics |
| Website | www.zeller-keramik.de |
The Zeller Ceramics Factory GmbH & Co KG is a ceramics factory in Zell am Harmersbach , which specializes in hand-painted goods. A museum is attached to it.
Faience factory
The Zell faience factory was founded in 1794 by Josef Anton Burger in Zell am Harmersbach. The city of Zell granted him a contract to operate a factory. Zell is a former Free Imperial City , located between Freiburg and Karlsruhe. In the first few years the company had already produced over 1000 different services. Almost the entire communal forest around Zell was cut down for the kiln, which is still in Zell today. In 1842 the production of porcelain was finally started and in 1896 a lithographic printing plant for the mechanical application of decorations was added. Two years later, on the occasion of the birth of his daughter, the chief painter Karl Schöner developed the “rooster and hen” motif, with which Zell ceramics became known far beyond Germany. The china clay was brought to Zell by horse and cart from Limoges, France. In 1907 Georg Schmider bought the porcelain factory from the previous owner, Carl Schaaf, and combined it with his pottery factory, which had been producing since 1859, to form Georg Schmider, United Zeller Ceramic Factories . The production of porcelain was stopped in 1942 due to a lack of fuel and not resumed. Ceramic production, however, was expanded.
Manufacture of the rooster and hen mug
The blanks are made from clay using plaster molds. The raw material for the blanks is obtained from Höhr-Grenzhausen in the Westerwald . The blanks are burned and make the earthenware. The decor is hand-painted on the blank. For a mug with the rooster and hen motif, there are five steps: Meadow at the lower edge of the mug with a colored sponge, five blades of grass in the meadow, rooster and hen with a brush and stencils, red comb with a brush, the upper wavy edge using the turntable. The cups are dipped in a glaze with tongs and come out yellow again. The cups are fired a second time at 1135 Celsius and the glaze becomes transparent again.
Ceramic Museum
In the neighboring ceramics museum , founded in 2007, rare pieces from the Art Nouveau period to today's production are shown on an area of 160 m² . The “Favorite” decors by the Konstanz artist Elisabeth Schmidt-Pecht (1857–1940) can also be seen, as well as the “Hahn & Henne” and “Old Strasbourg” decors, all of which have been in production for over 100 years. The "Hahn & Henne" motif is still hand-painted piece by piece in Zell today. Documents from the history of be issued faience -Fabrik, like the original manuscripts of the partnership agreement by Georg Schmider of 1888. In a part of the museum Keramformer explain the artisanal production stages of the production and function of the issued forms . Further porcelain from the faience factory is exhibited in the Storchenturm Museum in Zell.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Baden-Württemberg Economic Archives
- ^ Doris Burger: Where rooster and hen are distilled. In: Südkurier from April 4, 2015.