AASNÆS

AASNÆS GLASSWORK

It was Johan Christian Vogelsang who started production at Aasnæs Glasværk situated in Namdalseid mid Norway. Aasnæs Glasværk was in operation from 1813 to 1883, and it was one of a total of 6 glassworks in Namdalen in the 1800s. (Namdalseid and Trondheim area, mid Norway)

Glassworks in Namdalseid and Trondheim area, mid Norway;
Sørvig: 1808 - 1821
Holmen: 1812 to 1840
Jøssund: 1854 +
Namsos: 1855 - 1867
Bjørum: 1873 - 1886

Aasnæs was depended on timber  from the namdalske forests of glass-melting. Both crofters and farmers got a little extra income by delivering at the plant, up to a Norwegian speciedaler rates. embrace of, or payment in the form of glass or corn. 

The relatively close proximity to the coast were also favorable, given the need for another important raw material: seaweed ashes. seaweed Ash Burning was an additional income for the primary industries along the coast.

In 1830 established Aasnæs 84 different products. Ten years later the glass crests became a new and important product. When the glass is neither south was in decline from the 1840s, delivered Aasnæs most of what was required of glass floats to fisheries in mid and Northern Norway.

Glass production gave employment to almost the entire village and had ripple effects for a large catchment area. In 1865 was 129 persons residing under Aasnæs. In 1875 there were four houses for the workers at the construction site with a total of 95 persons in 31 households.
Two glass blowers  work one day at a melting pot,  gave one hundred beer bottles.
It was produced carafes, lion bottles (jagtflasker or hunt bottles I guess the name is in US English), apothecary glass and window panes, and they were shipped out from the pier at Aasnæs via Namsen Fjord to outlets in Trondheim and Bergen. With the boats in the fjord was seaweed ash from the coastal municipalities, clay and brown sand from Holland, brown stone from Bergen and quartz sand from Vega at the Helgelands coast mid Norway.
Aasnæs Glass Works was one of the most important glass producers in Norway for the manufacture of bottles and window glass. In addition, glass crests was a main product of Aasnæs

Source; Aasnæs Glassverk