Luxembourg

Industrial history in Septfontaines

Villeroy & Boch worked for 240 years at the faience factory in "Siwwebueren". It survived many wars but not the low-cost competition in a globalised world. Now something new is emerging from the pile of shards.

15.08.2017

Ankle-high were the shards of white earthenware in the workshop, the furnaces were destroyed. In the castle, doors, parquet, stairs and furniture had been burned - there was little more left than the walls. After the siege of the fortress of Luxembourg by the troops of the French Revolution, the Boch brothers stood in front of a pile of rubble.

At that point, they had only been very successful in the Rollingergrund for 30 years. In November 1767, the Austrian Governor for the Netherlands, Charles of Lorraine, approved the erection of an earthenware factory in the then Duchy of Luxembourg.