Zechlinerhütte

Zechlinerhütte is a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany. The village is surrounded by forest on the Schlabornsee, here called Hüttensee. About 450 people live in the village.
Between 1737 and 1890, goblets and coloured glasses were produced in the so-called "White Ironworks" – a glassworks. These can be seen today in the Märkisches Museum in Berlin. The founding of the glassworks was actually a relocation of the Drewitzer Hütte near Potsdam, which was founded under the Great Elector, became dilapidated and had to cease operations there in 1730 due to a lack of wood. Since the glassworks was initially administered from Flecken Zechlin, the settlement was called Zechliner Hütte. Glassmakers, glass cutters and glassblowers from Bohemia and Thuringia were settled after residential buildings, the glassworks and the director's building had been built on the desolate Zootzen field mark in 1736. Agricultural workers and shepherds also found work here, as extensive estates also belonged to Zechlinerhütte. In addition to the White Hut, there was also the "Green Hut" between Luhme and the village of Zechlin on the Großer Wummsee; here only green glass was produced. The White Glassworks was the only glassworks in the country with the right to produce crystal, coloured glasses and glassware with gilding. The bailiff Siegfried Stropp had obtained permission for this from King Friedrich Wilhelm I in 1736. In this way, Prussia was spared the expensive imports from Bohemia. In the following years, families from Württemberg were settled and Huguenots expelled from France were given settlement opportunities. In 1840, due to the changed market conditions, production was switched to utility glass.

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