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DOI Artikel:Nowak, Janusz: Hutnictwo szklane w dobrach podolskich rodów Sieniawskich, Czartoryskich i Tarłów
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Hutnictwo szklane w dobrach podolskich rodów Sieniawskich, Czartoryskich i Tarłów
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Glass-Making on the Podolian Estates of the Sieniawski, Czartoryski and
Tarło Families (Midiunki Lasowe, Stare Sioło, Berezówka, Latyczów)
in the Years 1721-1782
Summa ry
In addition to agriculture, forestry, and production of construction materials, glass-mak-
ing occupied a fairly important place on the map of the economic output of the Ukrainian
estates owned by the aristocratic families of Sieniawski, Czartoryski, and Tarło as early
as in the 1720s. In 1717, the Sieniawski family became involved in the manufacturing of
crystal and decorated glass tableware at Huta Kryształowa near Lubaczów, supplying morę
than lifty seats of nobility (castles, palaces, and manorial estates) throughout the Com-
monwealth of Poland and Lithuania. The Sieniawski family and, from 1731, the Czarto-
ryski family, who had come into possession of the estates of the former, furnished their
Polish and Lithuanian residences with window glass, glass tableware, and decorative glass-
ware either manufactured by Polish glassworks or imported from abroad. The estates in
Ruthenia and Podolia reąuired enormous ąuantities of window glass and glass tableware.
However, shipments of glassware had been always at the risk of being damaged or de-
stroyed during their transportation from the Kingdom of Poland proper to Present-day
Ukrainę and as far as Podolia. Conseąuently, the Sieniawski and Czartoryski families
would come to realize the necessity of having their own glassworks. They expected that
the manufacturing of glass with the use of local raw materials and labour (both yillein and
hired service), as well as local or invited specialists, would meet their own demand and,
as the glassworks continued to develop their production capacity, enable them to make
a profit. In order to accomplish that goal, storehouses were established at individual estates
owned by the families. It was not a random undertaking but a well-thought-out policy of
storing the manufactured glassware and distributing it to residences of the nobility, busi-
ness and trade administration buildings, inns, hospitals, and churches.
It can be said that the same motivation guided Jan Tarło, who, upon his appointment
as Starost of Latyczów in 1728, began manufacturing glass at the glassworks of this district
for his estates, e.g. at Medyka, and for sale. Following the appointment of August A. Czar-
toryski as Starost of the same district in 1751, the assortment and production volum.es of
those glassworks were significantly increased, even to include the manufacture of timber
ash and potash, which were first carted and then shipped via the river ports at Sieniawa
and Jarosław (on the San) and down the Vistula to Gdańsk (Danzig). This enterprise yield-
ed lucrative profits to the Czartoryski family. [MF]
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Glass-Making on the Podolian Estates of the Sieniawski, Czartoryski and
Tarło Families (Midiunki Lasowe, Stare Sioło, Berezówka, Latyczów)
in the Years 1721-1782
Summa ry
In addition to agriculture, forestry, and production of construction materials, glass-mak-
ing occupied a fairly important place on the map of the economic output of the Ukrainian
estates owned by the aristocratic families of Sieniawski, Czartoryski, and Tarło as early
as in the 1720s. In 1717, the Sieniawski family became involved in the manufacturing of
crystal and decorated glass tableware at Huta Kryształowa near Lubaczów, supplying morę
than lifty seats of nobility (castles, palaces, and manorial estates) throughout the Com-
monwealth of Poland and Lithuania. The Sieniawski family and, from 1731, the Czarto-
ryski family, who had come into possession of the estates of the former, furnished their
Polish and Lithuanian residences with window glass, glass tableware, and decorative glass-
ware either manufactured by Polish glassworks or imported from abroad. The estates in
Ruthenia and Podolia reąuired enormous ąuantities of window glass and glass tableware.
However, shipments of glassware had been always at the risk of being damaged or de-
stroyed during their transportation from the Kingdom of Poland proper to Present-day
Ukrainę and as far as Podolia. Conseąuently, the Sieniawski and Czartoryski families
would come to realize the necessity of having their own glassworks. They expected that
the manufacturing of glass with the use of local raw materials and labour (both yillein and
hired service), as well as local or invited specialists, would meet their own demand and,
as the glassworks continued to develop their production capacity, enable them to make
a profit. In order to accomplish that goal, storehouses were established at individual estates
owned by the families. It was not a random undertaking but a well-thought-out policy of
storing the manufactured glassware and distributing it to residences of the nobility, busi-
ness and trade administration buildings, inns, hospitals, and churches.
It can be said that the same motivation guided Jan Tarło, who, upon his appointment
as Starost of Latyczów in 1728, began manufacturing glass at the glassworks of this district
for his estates, e.g. at Medyka, and for sale. Following the appointment of August A. Czar-
toryski as Starost of the same district in 1751, the assortment and production volum.es of
those glassworks were significantly increased, even to include the manufacture of timber
ash and potash, which were first carted and then shipped via the river ports at Sieniawa
and Jarosław (on the San) and down the Vistula to Gdańsk (Danzig). This enterprise yield-
ed lucrative profits to the Czartoryski family. [MF]