Wallendorfer Porzellan [SEP] inception
Wallendorfer Porzellan
Wallendorfer Porzellan or Wallendorf Porcelain is a porcelain manufacturing company which has been in operation since 1764 in Lichte (Wallendorf) in the Thuringian Highlands. Wallendorf is one of the oldest porcelain trademarks in Germany and the whole of Europe.
Beginnings.
In the 18th century the territory of Lichte (Wallendorf) was located in two different principalities with the Lichte river forming the border. On the west bank was Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and on the east bank Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
In 1761, almost 50
founder of the C.M. Hutschenreuther porcelain company in Hohenberg an der Eger, Bavaria (1814)
- Johann Wolfgang Hammann, co-founder of Wallendorfer Porzellan
- Johann Heinrich Leder, founder of Lichte Porzellan
- Scherf brothers, Louis (1870-1955) and Albert (1876-1953): porcelain painters, silver medal at the World's Fair in Paris in 1900, gold medal at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis (1904)
- , (1848–1922) regional poet and journalist
- (1886–1970