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With industrialisation from the middle of the 19th century, Schwandorf developed into an important industrial location for ceramics. Abundant deposits of high-quality clays in the central Upper Palatinate provided the necessary high-quality raw material.
At the same time, Schwandorf was given a railway station as early as 1859 and thus an important connection to the national railway network: the Schwandorf pottery factory, one of the largest ceramics-producing plants in southern Germany, was established here: The Burglengenfeld district office granted master bricklayer Joseph Löll the licence for this on 17 June 1863. The takeover by the Kahla porcelain factory in Thuringia in 1959 - the pottery factory had already been associated with this factory in the mid-1920s - marked the end of its time as an independent company. The joint-stock companies Hutschenreuther-Keramag and Gebrüder Bauscher, porcelain factory in Weiden, subsequently also acquired shares in the company. Despite this - also because competition from abroad became ever stronger - the end came for this ceramic production in 1994.

Last edited on 30.12.2025