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Description
From 1770 to 1848, the Hubertusburg faience and stoneware manufactory was housed in these buildings.
On May 31, 1770, Elector Friedrich August III granted permission to the painter and ceramist of the Meissen manufactory, Johann Samuel Friedrich Tännich, to establish a factory in the buildings of the former “Deutschen Jägerhofes” (today clinical buildings 81 - 88). He was also allowed to transport goods on the postal roads, which otherwise only served electoral purposes. Tännich was given precise instructions on what he had to produce: stoves, dishes for the night chairs, barrels for the orangery, flower pots, barber basins, table jugs, crucibles, table tops, tiles and bricks of all kinds, fireplaces, vases, niche statues, animals and birds, swivel kettles and basins, chamber pots (only for 6 groschen), sinks with watering cans (for 16 - 18 groschen), plates (for 5 groschen), tableware, writing utensils, bouillon and soup bowls, to avoid competing production with the Meissen porcelain manufactory. Tännich ran the manufactory until 1774 and laid the foundation for the Hubertusburg faience and later stoneware factory, which existed until 1848 and provided work and food for up to 100 families.
The products were a big success at the Leipzig Michaelismesse in 1771. In 1776, the elector himself took over the manufactory. Due to its lower durability and higher price, faience crockery couldn´t compete in the long run with the new stoneware entering the market. The focus shifted and production of stoneware also started. In Hubertusburg, they began to replicate the "Queensware" product from Wedgewood (England) in form and colour. The demand for the manufactory in Hubertusburg was so great that the premises had to be extended in 1799.
With the start of the Continental Blockade in 1815, turnover collapsed. In 1834, the Saxon king sold the manufactory and the company filed for bankruptcy in 1848. During construction work for the new heating plant for the Hubertusburg clinic on the site of the former Baroque garden, metres thick layers of potsherds were found in 1979 - the bankruptcy estate and the legacy of the former Hubertusburg stoneware factory.
After various uses of these buildings, from 1940 - 1941, it was home to the largest of all resettlement camps for Bessarabian Germans in the German Reich with approximately 3000 residents.
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