OLDEST - Volkstedt Porcelain Manufactory" - Rudolstadt/ Thüringen/ Deutschland
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Bianka11
N 50° 42.578 E 011° 19.297
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Here you can find the oldest Volkstedt Porcelain Manufactory.
Waymark Code: WMWB22
Location: Thüringen, Germany
Date Posted: 08/06/2017
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"Volkstedt porcelain manufactury sited in Rudolstadt, Thuringia, Germany, was the earliest porcelain manufactory in Thuringia. It was in business as Aelteste Volkstedter Porzellanmanufaktur, the "Oldest Volkstedt Porcelain Manufactory", which was integrated into the VEB Vereinigte Zierporzellanwerke Lichte, which in turn formed part of the Kombinat Feinkeramik Kahla.
The factory had its origins in an official request made 8 September 1760 by the porcelain maker Georg Heinrich Macheleid (1723-1801). Macheleid had long worked in the glass manufactory at Glücksthal and had gained the arcana of porcelain-making by his own researches, apparently independent of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and Johann Friedrich Böttger, the ceramists at Meissen. He wished to open a privileged porcelain factory, making true hard-paste porcelain, intended to be sited in Sitzendorf. In 1762 the privilege was granted by Johann Friederich, Fürst von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, a great patron of the arts and music, specifying that the manufactory was to be set up near his princely court of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, under his personal direction." Wikipedia
Type of documentation of superlative status: the "Oldest Volkstedt Porcelain Manufactory",
Location of coordinates: at the entrance
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