Carl Leidig
Carl Leidig in Nuremberg is a family business founded as an optician in the middle of the 19th century , which in the course of its history also offered optical supplies such as cameras and technical equipment as well as school supplies and toys , also produced its own photographs and in particular stereoscopic images and sold them through its own publishing house . Location of today as Carl Leidig GmbH operated company is the King 25-27 in Nuremberg.
history
The company was originally founded in 1853 at the time of the Kingdom of Bavaria by the optician Georg Friedrich Leidig. Initially, he still made the frames for glasses and lorgnets by hand in his own workshop. Until 1870 the address was Obere Wörthstraße 22 .
After the company's founder left the company, his two sons Georg and Carl Leidig continued to run the business. Although Carl Leidig was meanwhile a "royal Bavarian court optician ", around the time the German Empire was proclaimed the company was relocated to Kaiserstrasse 16 .
Around 1899 customers were able to purchase glasses and binoculars from their own production as well as cameras with the name C. Leidig , but also - “[...] novelty! Only available from me: - Stereoscope pictures [...] "with photos from the collections of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg architecture photographs, photographs from the" Bayer. State exhibition in Nuremberg ”as well as“ Thousands of stereoscopic images from all countries ”. Known pieces, which photographed the Hofoptiker itself and in the self-published published.
In the course of industrialization , more and more optical products were soon being produced by foreign factories . In return, court optician Leidig expanded his sales program to include photographic accessories such as glass plates and later also roll films .
At times, the range also included steam machines for children, magic lanterns , glassware for laboratories and, above all, school lessons such as chemistry . Gramophones and records were also on offer.
During the Weimar Republic , the optician's shop was moved to its final location in 1931, at Königstrasse 25/27 .
During the Second World War and the air raids on Nuremberg in 1943, the Leidig optician was also a victim of the aerial bombs . It was only after the "reconstruction", at the beginning of the so-called " economic boom ", that Optiker Leidig was able to reopen the business in 1951.
In 1960 a separate department for contact lenses was incorporated . The family business was most recently handed over to the management of Ilse Zschau , who runs Carl Leidig GmbH together with her sons Fritz and Ulrich .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Fritz & Ilse Zschau (responsible): About us , with enlargeable images of historical advertisements on the page optiker-leidig.de in the version dated February 24, 2016
- ↑ a b Compare, for example, the inscription on this stereoscopy
- ↑ Compare the imprint on the company's website
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 1.3 " N , 11 ° 4 ′ 43.1" E