Arzberg () is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total l ...

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. It is situated 13 km west of

Cheb Cheb (; german: Eger) is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 30,000 inhabitants. It lies on the river Ohře. Before the 1945 expulsion of the German-speaking population, the town was the centre of the German- ...

and 10 km northeast of

Marktredwitz Marktredwitz () is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in Bavaria, Germany, close to the Czech border. It is situated 22 km west of Cheb, 50 km east of Bayreuth and 50 km south of Hof/Saale. Marktredwitz station is at the juncti ...

History

19th century

Porcelain Porcelain () is a ceramic material made by heating substances, generally including materials such as kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between . The strength and translucence of porcelain, relative to other types of pottery, arises main ...

was the driving force of the industrialisation in this region, since '' C. M. Hutschenreuther'' had discovered

kaolin Kaolinite ( ) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4. It is an important industrial mineral. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedral sheet of silica () linked through oxygen atoms to one octahedra ...

somewhat north of Arzberg and set up his production in

Hohenberg an der Eger Hohenberg an der Eger is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Eger, on the border with the Czech Republic, 11 km west of Cheb, and 14 km northeast of Marktredwitz. It ...

. In 1838, ''Lorenz Christoph Äcker'' asked for the permission to establish a first ''Porcellain-Fabrique'' in Arzberg which changed hands some times until, in 1884, it was acquired by ''Carl Auvera'' (1856-1914), a grandson of C. M. Hutschenreuther, and finally by the ''C. M.

Hutschenreuther Hutschenreuther is the name of a German family that established the production of porcelain in northern Bavaria, starting in 1814. History The Hutschenreuther porcelain business was founded in 1814 by Carolus Magnus Hutschenreuther (1794–184 ...

AG'', in 1919. In 1876, ''Heinrich Schumann'' established the second one, inherited by his son ''Carl Schumann''. In 1887, ''Christoph Schumann'' (1864-1916), Heinrich's younger son, founded a third factory, which he already in 1891 sold to Theodor Lehmann. Brauerei Arzberg

Sister city

Personalities

* Johann Arzberger (1778-1835), technician and scientist * Ewald Drechsel (1926-1990), politician (SPD), mayor and member of parliament

References

* Singer, Friedrich Wilhelm: ''Arzberger Bilderbuch'', Arzberg 1974 (no ISBN) * Siemen, Wilhelm: ''100 Jahre Porzellanfabrik Arzberg, 1887-1987'', Schriften und Kataloge des Museums der deutschen Porzellanindustrie, vol. 9, Hohenberg an der Eger 1987 (no ISBN)

External links

Stadt Arzberg
official webpage {{Authority control Wunsiedel (district)