Meissen Meissen Meissen (in German orthography: "Meißen", ) is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrechtsburg castle, the Gothic Meissen Cathedral and the Meissen Frauenkirche. The "Große Kreisstadt" is the capital of the Meissen district. Meissen is sometimes known as the "cradle of Saxony". The city grew out of the early Slavic settlement of "Misni" inhabited by the Glomacze tribe and was founded as a German town by King Henry the Fowler in 929.
Ludwigsburg porcelain Europe from East Asia and was thus rare on the continent. The first European hard-paste porcelain factory was that making Meissen porcelain from 1710, followed by Vienna porcelain in 1718, the in 1746, Fürstenberg and Nymphenburg in 1747, Berlin in 1751, and then the Frankenthal factory in 1755. France and England at the same time saw the foundations of the workshops at Chantilly in 1725, the Sèvres factory in 1738, and London's Chelsea porcelain factory in 1743. Attempts at producing porcelain in Ludwigsburg had been made since 1724 under Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg. Ludwigsburg was a poor site for