Meißen - the white gold

We stayed where the fox and the hare say good night. On our drive from our hotel at the Elbe ferry in Coswig, we also saw him during the day:

Apparently the fox, who was walking along the road in bright sunshine, did not know that he should actually be active at dusk. But we were lucky to be able to observe a fox, who even kindly looked into our camera.

Our first stop on this day was not at a sightseeing spot, but at a motorhome dealer: We have been interested in a campervan for some time now, which we can travel with and which offers space for overnight stays.

At Sachsen Caravan we were able to see several models that are of interest to us. In addition, we received very nice advice and so we spent about 100 minutes at the dealer before we continued our journey.

Afterwards we took a detour to Meißen to the porcelain manufactory, which no longer produces its world-famous porcelain in the Albrechtsburg as it used to, but since 1863 in the Triebisch Valley.

In the museum you can admire impressive (but for our taste also very kitschy) porcelain works of art, which are exhibited from various epochs.

Originally, porcelain comes from China, where it had to be imported in the 17th-18th century and almost weighed in gold. Johann Friedrich Böttger actually wanted to find a way to make gold, but then, together with Walther von Tschirnhaus and some others, he found the recipe for 'the white gold'.

During a guided tour, we could see in the show workshop how the works are produced and decorated.

During the second firing, the size of the manufactured piece is reduced by 16%, which is why the fired pieces always look a little smaller in the sequence of the individual work steps than the unfired parts:

A lady who is trained as a flower painter also presented her craft to us. She paints flowers on Meissen porcelain for 8 hours a day - a profession for which one must have a certain passion to practice it for years...

After so much museum and new knowledge, we fortified ourselves with a 'Torte Meißen' in the in-house café, which of course was served on genuine Meissen porcelain.

Unfortunately, we didn't have any more time for the old town of Meißen because we had to continue our way to our holiday apartment in Strubben.