Meissen 2003 – Porzellan Manufaktur
September 22, 2008
Meissen 2003 – Porzellan Manufaktur
Originally uploaded by let².
Meissen 2003, Germany – Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen
Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen GmbH:
Germany’s premier manufacturer of fine porcelain tableware, giftware and other decorative, hand-painted porcelain. Meissen is Europe’s first hard-paste porcelain manufactory.
The manufactory was established in 1710 under the patronage of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, in the Saxon town of Meissen, fifteen miles northwest of Dresden, Germany. It has been in continuous operation ever since.
Currently, more than 175,000 items are produced from a library of around 200,000 different forms dating back to the early eighteenth century.
Meissen porcelain is sold worldwide by over 300 authorized retailers. Channels of distribution are predominantly in Europe and the Far East. Roughly 60% of sales revenues are earned in Germany, 40% on the export markets.
Meissen has approximately 900 employees worldwide, half of which are painters and modelers based at the manufactory in Meissen.
Ever since Meissen began manufacturing porcelain, quality has been the foremost priority. Meissen is committed to superb artistry in handcrafting and to finding a perfect balance between tradition and innovation.
Cochem 2008 – Marktplatz
September 17, 2008
Originally uploaded by let².
Worth seeing are the remains of the old town wall, for example the “Endert gate Tower” with its adjoining Guard House dating back to 1332, the fortified tower and “Balduin’s gate” near the churchyard wall in the “Obergasse”, the “Burgfrieden gate” and gangway, the beautiful baroque styled town hall built in 1739, the market-place with its “Martin’s Fountain” and the old gabled houses built on steep, narrow alleys.
José Ruiz de Luzuriaga
September 12, 2008
Originally uploaded by let².
Our ancestors:
Don Eusebio’s son José Ruiz de Luzuriaga eventually assumed control of Hacienda Lupit and was one of the first to utilize modern means of cultivation, among which was the introduction of the small steam engine and iron rollers in sugar production on his hacienda and the use of iron ploughshares. He tapped the Lupit river for irrigation and when the sugar industry expanded, he was one of the first to convert his Hacienda Lupit into a sugar plantation using new tools and equipment from England and Canada, by the latter part of the 1860s.
Don José Ruiz de Luzuriaga would later serve as President of the Constituent Assembly from July 22, 1899 to November 6, 1899 during the period of the Negros Republic, which was established after the successful Negros Revolution won independence from Spain.
José Ruiz de Luzuriaga, a rich sugar businessman, became part of Philippine history when he was appointed the President of the Constituent Assembly of the short-lived Negros Republic that existed in 1899 following the Negros Revolution against the Spanish colonial government. The lot of José‘s hacienda house is now where the Bacolod City Hall stands
The hacienda house of José Ruiz de Luzuriaga is the site of the signing of the Act of Capitulation on November 6, 1898, marking the end of Spanish rule on Negros. The house later became the seat of the Negros Republic, the provincial capitol, and finally Bacolod City Hall.
In 1920, Valencia, Negros Oriental was renamed “Luzuriaga” in honor of Don Carlos Ruiz de Luzuriaga, a delegate from Negros to the Philippine Legislature (it was later renamed back to Valencia after the Second World War).
