współczesny mlecznik i filiżanki z pieknej masywnej białej porcelany Schoenwald z lat 70tych- jak miśnieńska! - Szczególnie piękny jest mlecznik- i pasujący w tym samym stylu dzbanek 1,4l duzy ładny triptis z lat 50tych . Niestety bez cukiernicy- ale za to ładne podstawki Ćmielów

dzbanek wysokość 22,5 cm średnica 12,5 cm id dzióbka do ucha 23,5 cm

6 filiżanek w idealnym stanie wysokość 5,5 cm średnica 8,5 cm od ucha do brzegu pucharu 11 cm- duże uniwersalne kawowo herbaciane

mlecznik - piekny biały dzbanek wysokość 12 cm średnica 8,5 cm od dzióbka do ucha 14 cm

6 podstawków średnica 14 cm

Historie
Schönwald: für viele, vor allem Nichtporzelliner, ein zwar romantischer, wohlklingender, aber unbekannter Name. Für die Fachleute und viele Tausende von Kunden in der Ganzen Welt ein wohlbekannter Name: Schönwald/ Oberfranken, Sitz der Porzellanfabrik Schönwald, Spezialfabrik für Hotelporzellan. Maß für gutes Porzellan. Seit 1879.

Die Anfänge der Porzellanfabrik
Als Johann Nicol Müller im Jahre 1879 in Schönwald seine Porzellanfabrik gründete, bedeutete dies einen Aufschwung für den ganzen Ort. Aber warum gerade Schönwald? Weil Schönwald alles bot, was man zur Porzellanherstellung benötigte: Energie (Holz) in den Wäldern, Rohstoffe (Kaolin, Feldspat, Quarz) im Boden. Und genügend Arbeitskräfte wohnten im Ort.
Der Erfolg des Qualitäts-Müllers
Der hohe Qualitätsanspruch des Firmengründers führte zu seinem Beinamen: Qualitäts-Müller. Das Werk entwickelte sich prächtig; bald werden die nächsten Werkshallen gebaut, neue Brennöfen angeschafft und weitere Mitarbeiter angestellt. So ist im Jahre 1898 die Belegschaft bereits auf 340 angewachsen. Im gleichen Jahr wird der Betrieb in die Aktiengesellschaft "Porzellanfabrik Schönwald" umgewandelt.

Schönwald – Spezialist für Hotelporzellan
Schon gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts entdeckte Schönwald das Gastronomieporzellan als lohnendes Geschäftsfeld. Wurde bis dahin Hotelporzellan sehr dickwandig gefertigt, was es recht unförmig aussehen ließ, ging Schönwald andere Wege: Nur bestimmte „Problemzonen“ des Geschirrs (z.B. Henkel) wurden verstärkt.

So waren nicht nur die neu entwickelten Formen revolutionär, sondern auch die Philosophie. Schönwald kreierte erstmals zusammen mit Dr. Hermann Gretsch Hotelporzellan, das sich in seiner überzeugenden Eleganz jederzeit mit feinem Haushaltsporzellan messen konnte. Der Gebrauchsgegenstand Hotelporzellan wurde veredelt und zum Mittelpunkt gepflegter Tischkultur in Gasthöfen, Restaurants und Hotels erhoben.

Dieser Philosophie ist SCHÖNWALD bis heute treu. Hotelporzellan muss funktionell sein und den speziellen Qualitätsanforderungen der Gastronomie und Gemeinschafts-
verpflegung in jeder Hinsicht genügen. Der perfekte Auftritt auf den Tischen der unterschiedlichen Restauranttypen ist jedoch mindestens ebenso wichtig.

So hat sich die Porzellanfabrik Schönwald mit seinen heute 650 Mitarbeitern zu einem der renommiertesten Hersteller der Welt entwickelt, der auf vielen internationalen Märkten präsent und als kreativer Partner der Gastronomie, Hotellerie und Gemeinschaftsverpflegung anerkannt ist.

Das Schönwald-Gütesiegel „Echtes Markenporzellan“ gilt auf allen Kontinenten als Garant für Professionalität, beste Material-, Verarbeitungs- und Designqualität.

History

Schönwald makes professional porcelain history

1879

Johann Nicol Müller converts his saw mill in Schönwald into a porcelain factory – the two-kiln Schönwald Porcelain Factory is born.

1885- 1896

seven further kilns are built. The workforce grows to 340 employees.

1888

Development of shape “Neukonisch”, individual pieces of which are still in our range.

1891

The Johann Nicol Müller company becomes a General Partnership (OHG) and is registered in

1894 as a Limited Partnership (KG).

1896

Death of the company founder. The company is taken over by his sons, Friedrich and Michael Müller.

1898

The company is converted to the “Aktiengesellschaft Porzellanfabrik Schönwald” (public limited company). Michael Müller departs in 1898, Friedrich Müller in 1904.

1927

Porzellanfabrik Schönwald AG is acquired by Porzellanfabrik Kahla/Thüringen, and continues to operate under the name of “Porzellanfabrik Schönwald, Zweigniederlassung (subsidiary of) der Porzellanfabrik Kahla”.

1936

Dr. Hermann Gretsch designs the hotel tableware Shape 98. For the first time in the history of porcelain, a full range of hotel tableware in a single service is launched on the market. This shape remains an important element of the product portfolio.

1940

Shape 98 is internationally recognised, receiving the Gold Medal at the 7th Milan Triennale.

1949

After Germany’s separation, the Kahla porcelain factory’s head office is moved to Schönwald.

1957

Schönwald’s Shape 511, which was designed by Heinrich Löffelhardt, wins the Gold Medal at the 11th Milan Triennale.

1959

Far-reaching modifications are made to the production facilities. Firing operations in the round kilns are abandoned and white porcelain manufacture is brought together in a single facility. The porcelain is now fired in three modern tunnel kilns.

1961

Shape 498 is awarded the “Premio Internazionale Vicenza”.

1970

Commissioning of the world’s first cup assembly line with integrated fast firing kiln for hotel porcelain.

1972

Merger with Hutschenreuther AG.

1973

Schönwald systemised tableware, Shape 2298, designed by Hans Theodor Baumann, is awarded the “Bundespreis Gute Form 73”, a West German design award.

1976

Schönwald porcelain is on board Lufthansa aircraft for the first time.

The newly built factory, which finally merges the previously separate production facilities, starts operations as one of the most modern and flexible porcelain factories in the world.

1986

Launch of the Demo Project, which uses groundbreaking new manufacturing technology for producing plates: A single-firing production process is linked with a logistically automated production workflow.

1987

With Donna, Schönwald introduces the first hotel porcelain designed by a woman – Ulrike Umlauf-Orrom. It has become one of the world's most successful porcelain shapes.

Schönwald adds hotel glass to its portfolio.

1992

The production area is further enlarged in the area of white porcelain manufacturing and decoration.

1998

Hutschenreuther AG changes its name to BHS tabletop AG, after selling its “household” brands.

2000

With the introduction of Adam D. Tihany’s PREMIERE shape, Schönwald for the first time presents a hotel porcelain concept in which porcelain, glass and stainless steel are coordinated with each other. The service receives both the iF design award and the red dot award.

Opening of a second showroom in Raunheim near Frankfurt.

2001

After making a double-digit million investment in BHS’s production facilities and undertaking a simultaneous segmentation, Schönwald’s products are now manufactured in one of the world’s most modern production facilities for hard porcelain.

2002

Commissioning of the new ultra-modern and highly automated Decoration and Logistics Centre.

The buffet collection Event, designed by Carsten Gollnick, receives the red dot award for outstanding design quality.

2003

With Generation, Schönwald launches a world innovation: the first ever cream-coloured hard porcelain (Duracream®).

Opening of a further showroom in Chemnitz.

2004

125 years of looking forward: Schönwald celebrates its 125th anniversary.

2006

The Signature Collection wins the if product design award.

2007

Schönwald’s show room is redesigned.

2008

The WellCome Collection wins the red dot award.

2009

Schönwald acquires a new fast-firing kiln with the latest energy efficient firing technology.

2010

Schönwald launches its collaboration with the well known glass manufacturer Axum Bohemia, and takes over the global sale of Axum glass products for the hospitality industry.

Installation of a new high-performance glazing facility on which processing of extra-large items can be automated.

2011

The Grace Collection receives the if product design award.

Germany / Thuringia / Triptis:

[1] : Triptiser Porzellanfabrik Unger & Gretschel (1891 until 1896)

On April 1st 1891 the foundation stone for the factory later known as 'Triptiser Porzellanfabrik A.G.' was laid near the Triptis station attached to the Leipzig-to-Saalfeld railroad and after a relatively short building period the first products could be fired a year later. Right from the start the company strongly specialized on household items like rolling pins, cutting boards, storage containers and oil/vinegar cruets as well as a small number of coffee and tea sets. Following the company's initial success it was transformed into a stock corporation in 1896 and this step allowed the first factory expansion in form of an additional production building.

[2] : Triptiser Porzellanfabrik A.G. (1896 until 1949)

The number of employees quickly rose to total of 440 workers in 1905 and it soon became obvious that various steps had to be taken that would help further growth. One of the first was a doubling of capital stock in 1906 which the same year allowed the takeover of the 'Porzellanfabrik Gebrüder Urbach' in Turn near Teplitz (Bohemia) that itself employed 400 people. Three years later the glass works 'S. Fischmann Söhne' in Prague, Teplitz-Schönau and Eichwald were also taken over, followed in 1912 by the potteries 'Gebrüder Lichtenstern' in Wilhelmsburg (Austria) and 'Ditmars Erben' in Znaim (Moravia). While the other divisions represented a huge growth in productivity, the Triptis main factory had only slightly increased its number of employees and the 450 people working there in 1913 were responsible for producing the best selling items of the whole group which were mainly decorated in the popular 'Strawflower' and 'Blue Onion' styles.

Only a year later the outbreak of WWI halted all further expansion plans and following the general mobilization most factories were closed down until the end of the war. Worse had to come and the complete glass works and both factories in Turn and Znaim were lost after the war as those parts of former Bohemia and Moravia now became parts of the newly-founded state of Czechoslovakia. Nonetheless business continued after the war and even if the following 'Golden Twenties' brought a short upturn not only through an improved export market situation, the worldwide effects of the financial crisis between 1929 and 1933 nearly resulted in total disaster. Still employing 500 people in 1930 the struggling company saw only one option and so the workforce was cut back down to a mere 150 people that worked only three days a week, concentrating on cheap mass-production.

Even if the radical cutback had prevented the company from ending up like so many others and the market situation slowly started to improve, the company remained in a bad shape and in 1938 was taken over by the Porzellanfabrik Oscar Schaller & Co. Nachfolger, which at that time belonged to the Winterling Brothers. The takeover itself was greeted in Triptis with mixed feelings but that soon became irrelevant when German forces started to invade Poland. During WWII the factory of course had the same problems as everybody else but still saw itself able to at least provide basic items until mid-April 1945 when Allied bombers targeted the Triptis railway station, leaving a large number of civilian buildings and more than half of the porcelain factory literally pulverised.

Although repairs started directly after the war, the factory was unable to restart production until 1947, now running with four kilns and at first only covering the local demand for bare essentials. As the area around Triptis belonged to the Soviet Occupation Zone, the factory was partially nationalized the same year and soon afterwards it already employed around 120 workers again, a number that was also noted for the year 1949 in which the factory was fully nationalized.

[3] : V.E.B. Triptis Porzellan (1949 until 1990)

Following the founding of the German Democratic Republic in October 1949 all porcelain and pottery companies in the Triptis area were nationalized and converted into one large 'V.E.B.' combine. In 1952 an impressive 1,500 tons of household items were produced in roughly four hundred firings, but this absolute maximum output also indicated that a larger factory was needed soon. After a relatively long planning phase, a new building on the outskirts of the town was started in 1959 and after its near completion in 1961 and first test firings of the new tunnel kilns at the end of the year it was finally declared ready to take up production in 1962. The whole factory moved to the new premises in a very short time and the old factory was left to be demolished.

In 1968 the factory was put under supervision of the 'V.E.B. Porzellanfabrik Kahla' and during that period it did not have any own marks; as a Kahla subsidiary it had to use a standard 'Kahla' mark. But this combination also had its advantages as the Kahla group also secured orders and so the new Triptis factory quickly advanced to the largest employer in the area, causing a lot of commuter traffic - at peak times it had a workforce of up to 1.000 people with about eighty percent of them being female workers. The situation of the factory remained stable until 1987 when it was released from supervision and was left as a standalone business once again.

[4] : Triptis Porzellan G.m.b.H. (1990 until 1993)

After German reunification the company at first was operated under the supervision of the West German Treuhandanstalt that instantly initiated a restructuring process. With a workforce of now 400 people the factory mainly produced items around the 'Romantika' mold with traditional 'Blue Onion' decoration and soon was seen fit to continue as fully privatized company.

[5] : Triptis Porzellan G.m.b.H. & Co. K.G. (1993 until 2004)

Still there was a lot of work to do but after a period of restructuring and reorganisation the company started to take over different other companies and factories. The first mark, brand name and product range to be taken over was that of the Lengsfeld Porzellan A.G. in Stadtlengsfeld (Thuringia), a company that went bankrupt in 1998. Looking for an investor or a way to continue business, the trademarks and all previous designs were sold to the 'Triptis Porzellan G.m.b.H. & Co. K.G.'. The facility in Stadtlengsfeld now belongs to the 'Gilitzer Porzellan Manufaktur G.m.b.H.', a new company lead by Erich J. Bruckert who started business on January 1st 1999.

The first company that was taken over was 'Freiberger Porzellan' (Freiberg/Saxony) in the year 1999, however Triptis was only interested in the hotel and restaurantware lines and sold the rest of the Freiberg business late in 2000. The greatest deal by far was the complete takeover of the Gebrüder Winterling group located in Röslau (Bavaria) in 2000, including the Winterling facilities in Windischeschenbach (Bavaria), Kirchenlamitz (Bavaria) and Schwarzenbach (Bavaria). But the Triptis management had bitten off more than they could chew. Confronted with large scaled financial problems, Triptis themselves went insolvent on October 7th 2004 and had to file for bankruptcy a month later.

[6] : Neue Porzellanfabrik Triptis G.m.b.H. a.k.a. Eschenbach Porzellan Group (2005 until ...)

In June 2005 the company was saved by the investment group under Rolf Frowein which refounded the company and integrated it into the 'Eschenbach Porzellan' group, a sub-division of 'Frowein Investment'. At that time the group of porcelain manufacturers included 'Eschenbach', 'Freiberger Hotelporzellan', 'Triptis' and 'Winterling' brands while the 'Neue Porzellanfabrik Ilmenau' sells items via their factory outlet 'HERO Design'.

Mark Comments:

One of the most puzzling things about these marks is that the company at first used the socialistic 'V.E.B.' addition in their marks and later completely dropped any hint on being an East German company; thus many marks show the addition 'MADE IN GERMANY' instead of the normally found 'EAST GERMANY', 'GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC' or 'MADE IN GDR'. This is quite unusual; many other companies used the 'MADE IN GERMANY' until full nationalization in 1972 and then added the socialistic 'GDR' marks.

Also note that the Triptis company was not the only business that used the 'Orla' name in some marks; the 'Porzellanmanufaktur Union Quist & Kowalski' from the town of Kleindembach near Pößneck also used that name as it is the name of a small river in that area.