Zschopenthal Blue Colour Works

The blue colors work Zschopenthal was a plant for the production of blue color in the glass belonging to the municipality Grünhainichen place Zschopenthal.

History

The Zschopenthaler blue colors work was originally founded in Annaberg. Difficulties in obtaining firewood prompted the co-owner Bergrat Caspar Sigismund of Berbisdorf, 1684 to make a transfer to Zschopenthal. From Berbisdorf already had an iron hammer and the required building site in Zschopenthal. 1689 is reported by a sheet metal hammer, which made ​​cooking hobs. 1692 this work was moved to Neunzehnhain.

1687 began the production of the blue cobalt color flour which was used for the painting of porcelain and ceramics. According to tradition, exported from Berbisdorf it to Delft and Venice. The blue color factory had its own jurisdiction and had its own school.

1850 Zschopenthaler was closed and combined with the plant in panhandle.

The line of blue colors work was three generations in the family of the chemist Clemens Winkler: great-grandfather Christian Heinrich Winkler, grandfather ( August Fürchtegott Winkler ) and father ( Kurt Alexander Winkler ).

In 1848 acquired the Zschopauer Weber Johann Gottlieb Wunderlich the overall complex and built it into a very modern for that time weaving.

The buildings of the former blue colors that work are largely preserved and maintained for several years in a modest scale as an industrial monument.

The old industrial complex consists of the three-storey factory building with cross vaults on the ground floor, whose portal is marked with the year 1687, the half-timbered building with turrets, bell and weather vane of 1719, the stables and the massive, two-story mansion with a hipped roof.

Presence

The tradition of blue color workers is maintained for several years by the group hut Knappschaft Zschopenthal heritage association forest churches.