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Anyone visiting Weiden in the Upper Palatinate will find impressive evidence of a construction boom that was triggered by the city's rise to an industrial metropolis: In 1863, Weiden received a railway connection, which allowed world-class glass and porcelain factories to flourish.
In Weiden, in the middle of the Upper Palatinate Forest, it was mainly flat glass and industrial glass that conquered the markets on a large scale.
To this day, Weiden is an important production site for the Nachtmann company, which is known worldwide for the finest crystal glass from Bavaria. The factory has been in existence for almost 40 years.
Nachtmann itself has its headquarters in the neighboring municipality of Neustadt an der Waldnaab. Great table culture has always been at home in the central Upper Palatinate: Weiden is considered the city of porcelain.
The aforementioned connection of Weiden to the railway network in 1863 and the resulting cheap transport of raw materials led to the chemical merchant August Bauscher from Hanau, who had learned the manufacture of porcelain himself as a partner in a porcelain factory in Tirschenreuth, building a factory for hotel porcelain in Weiden in 1881 with his brother Conrad Bauscher, who was a confectioner by trade and had great technical talent.
More than 1925 people worked there in 1.400. The great Bauscher porcelain tradition lives on today under the umbrella of BHS Tabletop AG – the B stands for Bauscher.
Closely linked to Weiden is the name Seltmann, which to this day stands for branded porcelain of the highest quality and for the highest standards: In 1910, Christian Seltmann acquired a property on Pressather Strasse in Weiden and laid the foundation stone there for his life's work, the Christian Seltmann porcelain factory for everyday and luxury porcelain.
The Christian Seltmann GmbH Weiden porcelain factory also includes brands such as the Royal Private Porcelain Factory Tettau and, since the 1990s, three Thuringian porcelain manufacturers.
And the Bavaria AG Ullersricht porcelain factory is also part of Weiden's history as a city of porcelain. It was founded in 1920, but fell victim to the global economic crisis of 1929 and its consequences - and disappeared from the market in 1933.
The history of ceramics stretches back thousands of years to ancient times. Today, visitors can admire many precious treasures in the International Ceramics Museum in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate.
Ceramics from over seven millennia, using a wide variety of techniques – from simple earthenware, faience, earthenware, stoneware to the finest porcelain – from various parts of the world are part of the extensive exhibition.
Interested parties can find further information online and at dieglasstrasse.de.
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