Crystal manufacture of Saint-Louis-the-Bitche

The Royal Verrerie of Saint-Louis is located in the Commune Frenchwoman of Saint-Louis-the-Bitche and the department of the the Moselle.

History

A first Verre laughs is established in 1586 with the locality Münzthal , the Vallée of the monks, being explained by the abandonment of the Verrerie of Holbach, the preceding Année. The Guerre Thirty Year old causes devastations in the area and the Verre laughs cease its activities in the middle of the 17th century.

The February 17th 1767, the king Louis XV authorizes by a stopped of the Council of State confirmed by letters patent of the March 4th 1767, the resumption of old the Industrie. Its owners are then two lawyers with the sovereign Cour of Lorraine and Barrois, Rene-François Jolly and Pierre-Etienne Olivier. It will carry the title of Verre laughs royal and will be placed under the term of Saint Louis , in remembering Louis IX. The Verre laughs becomes in 1767 the Compagnie of the Cristal leries of Saint Louis and it passes thereafter to Lassalle, before being sold in 1788 with the baron of Coëtlosquet.

In 1781, the news royal glassmakings of Saint-Louis is the first on the unintermitting to develop the crystal, whose England held the monopoly since its invention in 1627 with Newcastle.

The Crystal lery, always in activity nowadays, is repurchased in 1989 by the famous house of Hermes luxury.

Installations

The House of the direction, the market S, the Store S, the Housing S for the Masters, the Working S and the farm, a Mill, a Sawmill and a Platine laughs is built in the quatrème quarter of the 18th century and is transformed at the 19th century. Others Logement S are built in the current of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Village abounds in many the buildings of the Cristal lery, of which several are located near the pond below located the Route of Lemberg. Gem cutting, regularly bored many Window S, is installed in the news market. Old the Workshop of choice and rebrûlage, built in brick with its Chimney, is currently used for hardening. The Abattoir carries the Date 1901, while old the Lavoir, built in Charpente, is located today in the Eau

The building of the direction of the Usine is built perpendicular to the main street, the street of Coëtlosquet. It is drawn up at the entry of large a Parc and remains unchanged compared to the representation of the table of 1836. Only a body of dwelling was to him assistant in the prolongation, on the side of the Jardin S.

Worships

The Chapelle, built the shortly after the creation of the Verre laughs, is blessed the August 25th 1776 and set up cleans in 1846 of it. Increased 1859 with 1862 within Jacquemin, Architect with Metz, it remains too small within sight of the development of the Cristal lery and the increase in Population. It is thus replaced by the church Saint-Louis, vaster, built 1897 with 1902. New the building is high thanks to the financial assistance of the Famille of Coëtlosquet, owner of the Usine at that time.

External bonds

Official site of Crystal manufacture
crystal manufacture on the site of the Countries of Bitche and the Saar

----

Random links: