Zschopenthal Blue Colour Works

Difficulties in obtaining firewood motivated the co-owner, Bergrat Caspar Sigismund von Berbisdorf, in 1684 to move it to Zschopenthal.

In 1687 the works began manufacturing blue cobalt colour paste, used for painting porcelain and ceramic.

In 1848 the Zschopau master weaver, Johann Gottlieb Wunderlich, bought the entire factory complex and built what was in its day a very modern weaving mill.

The buildings of the former paintworks have been very largely preserved and have been maintained for several years to some degree as an industrial monument.

The old industrial site consisted of the three-storey factory building with a cross-vault on the ground floor, whose portal is marked with the year 1687, the timber-framed building with turrets, bell and weather vane from 1719, the stables and the massive, two-story mansion with a hip roof.