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
The Niederpfannenstiel Blue Colour Works in the mid-19th century
  • Saxony
    • Oberschlema Blue Colour Works (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 Niederpfannenstiel
    • Schindler's Blue Colour Works (Schindlersches Blaufarbenwerk) (founded 1649) in Schindlerswerk
    • Oehmesches Blue Colour Works (1649–1688) (Oehmesches Blaufarbenwerk) in Annaberg
    • Zschopenthal Blue Colour Works (Zschopenthal Blaufarbenwerk) (1687–1847) in Zschopenthal
  • Prussia
    • Hasserode Blue Colour Works (Blaufarbenwerk Hasserode) (to around 1850)
  • Bohemia
  • Norway

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)
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