In 1723 the place was founded with a glass foundry by Frederick Louis, Count of Nassau-Ottweiler.
His remains were destroyed in the looting of the church during the French Revolution.
Albert of Nassau-Weilburg-Ottweiler (26 December 1537, Weilburg – 11 November 1593, Ottweiler), was a Count of the House of Nassau.
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They divided them: Philip received Saarbrücken and Saarland; Albert received Ottweiler, the districts Homburg and Kirchheim and the Lordships of Lahr and Mahlberg in the Black Forest.
Louis was the eldest son of Count Albert of Nassau-Weilburg-Ottweiler and Countess Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg.
Étienne-Dominique Pellevé, of Rouen, France, started producing this porcelain in Ottweiler in 1763.