Höchster Porzellanmanufaktur

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Höchster Porzellanmanufaktur (esteblished in 1746)

The Höchst Porcelain Manufactory is a company of porcelain art in Frankfurt-Höchst.

□History
It was established in 1746 by Johann Christoph Göltz and Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck (1714-1754), one of Meissen derived Porzellanmaler founded, and is the second oldest porcelain manufacturer in Germany and the only one in Hessen. The logo of the Höchst Porcelain Manufactory is the Mainzer Rad . This privilege and a monopoly for kurmainzisches area got the factory with its founding by Archbishop of Mainz, Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein conceded. One of the most important artists of the factory was the Electoral Mainz court sculptor Johann Peter Melchior , who worked as a model champion in 1768 maximum number of years.

Between 1746 and 1750 were in the factory only in Höchst faience produced. Only when the Arcanist Johann Kilian Benckgraff and Ofenbauer Josef Ringler 1750 came to the Porcelain Manufactory, enter the first porcelain fires. On the northern wall at the level of today's highest market a kiln was built. The factory building itself, called Porzellanhof, was located in the northern Old Town between Wed and Rosengasse (today Antoniterstraße); It was built in 1927 demolished.

Löwenfinck left peak in May 1749 after he had been forced out of Göltz from the porcelain factory; Göltz went bankrupt in 1756, the factory was closed. The company was taken over and continued in 1759 by Johann Heinrich Maas. During this time the chronicles repeatedly report disputes and massive physical altercations within the workforce of the Manufaktur . 1765 Höchst Porcelain Manufactory was by the Elector Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim granted privilege a Aktiengesellschaft converted, in 1771, the factory had 27 shareholders.

Shareholders received in 1777 an invitation of the Elector Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal agree to its terms and conditions for continuation of the Company; on August 30, 1778 sparked the elector to the corporation. He transferred the management of his Hofkammerrat Johann Kaspar Rief. 1784 was the porcelain factory into the possession of Mainz Hofkammer 1796 took place after fifty years of operation of the bankruptcy. The Mainzer Hofkammer remained 57,312 guilders debt.

A HÖCHST PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A COLUMBINE
CIRCA 1760