Glassworks at Schönberg
1716 – 1728
Production was relocated to Schönberg near the "Drei Höfen" in the Gföhlerwald in 1716, following the exhaustion of timber resources at the original Mottingeramt site. Archaeological finds attest to the manufacture of greenish forest glass, while fragments of cobalt-blue glass suggest a broader range of production. A glass-cutting workshop is presumed to have operated at the nearby Ebnermühle on the Dobrabach. Despite a comprehensive refurbishment under Count Sinzendorf in 1724, operations ceased in March 1728 due to insufficient profitability. The site was subsequently converted into agricultural farmsteads. A bell preserved in the roof turret of the Sinnhuber farmstead survives as a notable artefact from this period.
Sources
- Kugler E. - Heimatbuch Jaidhof, S. 273 ff
- Winkelbauer T. - Glashütten im Gföhleramt, S. 149 ff
- Volkmar Köllner: Nachlass zu Glasmacherfamilien im Waldviertel, 1980er Jahre. Archiv Gmünd/Waldviertel.