• Travelsignposts Home
  • Country Guides
  • City Guides
  • River Cruises
  • Europe Photos
  • About Us

Germany Travel

  • Home
  • Trip Planner
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Map
  • Weather
  • Site Map
  • Destinations
  • Sightseeing
  • Shopping
  • Food
  • Getting around
  • Useful facts
  • News & Events
You are here: Home / Archives for meissen porcelain history

On the Trail of White Gold – North Bavaria and Thuringia

March 12, 2010 By Helen Page Leave a Comment

890 km of Porcelain Trails: Visitors to the Northern Bavarian and Thuringia regions can travel along two scenic tourist routes which links places of interest associated with the manufacture of porcelain or White Gold as they were referred to 300 years ago. As early as the beginning of the 13th century, European royalty had been […]

Filed Under: Sightseeing Tagged With: arzberg, bavaria porcelain, bavarian china, bavarian porcelain route, meißen, meissen porcelain factory, meissen porcelain history, porcelain markings, rosenthal, thuringia porcelain route

Porzellanikon – Porcelain centre in north-east Bavaria

January 23, 2010 By Helen Page Leave a Comment

Learn about the History of German Porcelain in north-east Bavaria: Visitors to the north-eastern parts of Bavaria this year will be treated to the biggest porcelain exhibition ever held on the European continent.  Both the towns of Hohenberg and Selb are venues for Europe’s largest ever exhibition of porcelain:  “From A King’s Dream to Mass […]

Filed Under: News & Events Tagged With: european industrial museum for porcelain, european museum for technical ceramics, german porcelain history, german porcelain museum, hohenberg, meissen porcelain history, porcelain bavaria, porcelain germany, rosenthal museum, selb

Meissen Porcelain – 300 years of German Porcelain

January 22, 2010 By Helen Page Leave a Comment

Celebrating the Tri-centenary of Porcelain Production in Germany: Until the early 18th century, the Chinese were the only porcelain producers and all the exotic porcelain in Europe were imported from the Far East. The secret of porcelain production was closely guarded by the Chinese, until 1707 when Johann F. Bottger and Ehrenfried W. von Tschimhaus […]

Filed Under: News & Events Tagged With: blue and white, markings, meißen, meissen porcelain, meissen porcelain factory, meissen porcelain figurines, meissen porcelain germany, meissen porcelain history, meissen porcelain marks, porzellanmanufaktur

You can also find us on

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Latest Additions

  • Is the Geierlay Suspension Bridge Scary?
  • On the Winner’s Podium at Hockenheimring
  • German Christmas Markets Cancelled
  • Christmas in Berlin – Christmas Concerts in Berlin 2021
  • Nuremberg Christmas Market – Nürnberg Christkindlesmarkt 2021

Plan and Book Your Trip


eNews and Updates

feedburner Sign up now to get emailed news as well as other site updates!

Get the Guerrilla Travel Photography ebook here now!
City Guides
Country Guides
River Cruises

Who is behind Travelsignposts?

Helen and Tony Page at Singapore Changi Airport

We're Helen and Tony Page, and we love travelling - lucky as we've been doing it for the last few decades!

Tony has long been a professional photographer and writer, but Helen now writes most of the posts and takes a lot of photos herself!

Travelsignposts is our main travel planning site, but we've just launched Travelsignposts China and Tony also runs the Travelsignposts Photo and Guerrilla Travel Photography web sites, as well as publishing the Take Better Digital Photos and Guerrilla Travel Photography eBooks.

Read more about Helen and Tony or contact them.

Other Countries

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Devon & Cornwall
  • England
  • Estonia
  • Europe (General)
  • Finland
  • France
  • Greece
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Portugal
  • Scotland
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine

Resources

  • Take Better Digital Photos eBook Take Better Digital Photos eBook
  • Take Better Digital Photos Free eCourse
  • Travel Signposts Photo – our main travel photography site
  • Guerrilla Travel Photography eBook Guerrilla Travel Photography eBook

Copyright © 2022 ·Lifestyle Pro Theme · Genesis Framework by StudioPress · WordPress · Log in