Höchst Porcelain Manufactory, the second-oldest porcelain manufacturing company in Germany, is founded with a privilege granted by the Elector of Mainz, Johann Carl von Ostein.

The Pfandamt (lending agency) deputy Johann Heinrich Maas leads the manufactory with great success. Laurentius Russinger works as the head sculptor.

Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach-Bürresheim becomes the new Elector of Mainz.

The manufacturing company is transformed into a stock corporation. Elector Breidbach-Bürresheim is the principal stockholder.

Johann Peter Melchior becomes the master sculptor at Höchst Porcelain Manufactory.

Melchior is appointed as court sculptor to Elector of Mainz Joseph von Breidbach-Bürresheim.

The new Elector of Mainz, Friedrich Karl Joseph Freiherr von Erthal, takes office.

Höchst Porcelain Manufactory is officially dissolved after being shut down since 1792/93, and as a result of the French Revolutionary Wars and the siege and occupation of Mainz.

Aschaffenburg, the Residence of the Mainz Electors, becomes part of the Kingdom of Bavaria after the Congress of Vienna.

The Höchst figures are created using the original molds at the Damm Steingutfabrik (stoneware factory) near Aschaffenburg.

Sale of the Höchst molds to the Franz Anton Mehlem stoneware factory in Poppelsdorf near Bonn.

Mehlem sells the Höchst molds to the porcelain manufacturing company Dressel, Kister und Cie. in Passau. The “Alt Höchst” figures are molded there.

The city government purchases all of the preserved Höchst figures from the Passau molds for use in City Hall (Bolongaro Palace).

Höchst is incorporated into the city of Frankfurt.

End of production at the Passau porcelain factory.

“200 Years of Höchst Porcelain” exhibition in Frankfurt-Höchst and efforts to revive manufacturing at the founding site.

First re-founding of Höchst Porcelain Manufactory in Höchst, with a production facility in Frankfurt-Sossenheim.

Second re-founding, with a production facility in Frankfurt-Unterliederbach.

The Dalberg House in Frankfurt-Höchst, formerly owned by the Archbishop of Mainz, Wolfgang von Dalberg, becomes the headquarters of Höchst Porcelain Manufactory.

The new whiteware facility is opened on Kurmainzer Straße in Frankfurt-Höchst.

250th anniversary of the founding of Höchst Porcelain Manufactory; start of production at the new “Porzellanhof am Park”, next to the city park in Frankfurt-Höchst.

The “Porzellanhof” building becomes the new headquarters of Höchst Porcelain Manufactory.
Open to visitor groups and events; reorientation of the product portfolio toward innovative design.