Meissen and the House of Wettin in 1089. In 1015 Meissen was besieged by the Poles led by future King Mieszko II. In 1241 the city was attacked in the Mongol raid on Meissen. The small Mongol force under Orda Khan defeated the city's defenders and much of the city was destroyed. The Mongols withdrew from Germany after the death of Ögedei Khan, sparing the region from further destruction. The city was at the forefront of the Ostsiedlung, or intensive German settlement of the rural Slavic lands east of the Elbe, and its reception of city rights dates to 1332. The
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