Fabryka fajek w Zborowskiem
The Silesian Clay-pipes Factory from Zborowskie

Preliminary Results

Summary/Abstract: The project “Silesian Clay-pipes Factory from Zborowskie” is being realized within the frameworks of the research activity of the Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów”. The main goal of the project is to build a faithful replica of the former clay-pipes factory and to investigate the history of the property. The archival queries have been conducted in the State Archives in Opole, Wroclaw and Katowice and the Museum has started cooperation with experts from the Netherlands. During two months (September and October) of 2013, a team of archeologists conducted a survey in Zborowskie. The factory was founded in 1753 by Andreas von Garnier, Rappard, Karl von Unfriedt and Samuel Grulich. The Prussian King Frederick II granted them the privilege by which they had exclusive rights to manufacture clay pipes until 1813. The complex, unique in Central Europe, originally consisted of four buildings - to this day, only one wooden building survived with a brick kiln for firing clay pipes preserved inside

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