Blue colour works
A blue colour works (German: Blaufarbenwerke) is a paintworks where blue pigment for use in glassmaking is produced. Usually the pigment, cobalt blue, needed for this purpose, was manufactured from cobalt-containing ore as in the case of the factories listed below.
Blue colour works[]
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The Niederpfannenstiel Blue Colour Works in the mid-19th century
- Saxony
- (Blaufarbenwerk Oberschlema) (founded 1644) in Oberschlema, according to some sources this was the largest blue colour works in the world
- Schneeberg Blue Colour Works (Blaufarbenwerk Schneeberg) (1568 to around 1580) in Schneeberg, the first small blue colour works in Saxony
- Unterjugel Blue Colour Works (Blaufarbenwerk Unterjugel), 17th century, in Unterjugel
- Niederpfannenstiel Blue Colour Works (Blaufarbenwerk Niederpfannenstiel) (founded 1635) in
- (Schindlersches Blaufarbenwerk) (founded 1649) in
- Oehmesches Blue Colour Works (1649–1688) (Oehmesches Blaufarbenwerk) in Annaberg
- Zschopenthal Blue Colour Works (Zschopenthal Blaufarbenwerk) (1687–1847) in
- Prussia
- (Blaufarbenwerk Hasserode) (to around 1850)
- Bohemia
- Christophhammer Blue Colour Works (Blaufarbenwerk Christophhammer) (1750–1874) in Christophhammer
- Norway
- Modum Blue Colour Works in Modum
- Snarum Blue Colour Works in Snarum
Literature[]
- Wilhelm Bruchmüller: Der Kobaltbergbau und die Blaufarbenwerke in Sachsen bis zum Jahre 1653. Crossen, 1897 (digitalised)
- Friedrich Kapf: Beyträge zur Geschichte des Kobolts, Koboltbergbaues und der Blaufarbenwerke. Breslau, 1792 (digitalised)
Categories:
- Chemical industry
- Mining in the Ore Mountains
- Mining in the Harz