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
Meissen porcelain ("Königlich-Polnische und Kurfürstlich-Sächsische Porzellan-Manufaktur"), placed Böttger's laboratory at Albrechtsburg castle in Meissen and production started officially in 1710. The first type of ware produced by Böttger was a refined and extremely hard red stoneware known as "Böttger ware" in English (in German "Böttgersteinzeug"). It retained very crisp definition in its cast, applied details, on bodies that could be polished to a gloss before firing. Models were derived from Baroque silver shapes and Chinese ceramic examples. Meissen's production of a hard paste white porcelain that could be glazed and painted soon followed, and wares were put on the market in 1713.