JB Filz's son
| Parfumerie JB Filz's Sohn KG
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| legal form | Limited partnership |
| founding | 1809 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| management | Helga Zmrzlik-Filz, Angelika Liebhart |
| Branch | Perfumery retailers |
| Website | www.Parfumerie-Filz.at |
JB Filz's Sohn is a traditional perfumery and former supplier to the Imperial and Royal Court in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt , at Graben 13. The business has been family-owned since it was founded.
history
The company was founded in 1809 by Anton Filz. He made the various scented water , soaps , creams , make-up and pomades himself. Business was good during the Congress of Vienna , as high-ranking international guests came to Vienna and many festivals were held in the city.
Anton Filz died unexpectedly in 1818 and his widow and their 18-year-old son Johann Baptist Filz had to continue the business. The two struggled with a lack of financial resources and a lack of customers. In 1829, with the opening of the shipping connection between Vienna and Budapest by the First Danube Steamship Company , Filz commuted between the cities to sell its products. In 1831 he patented his "Genuine Parisian Ladies Conservation Water". He traveled to London and Paris by stagecoach to go shopping. In "Wiener Intelligence-Blatt" he activated an advertisement: " The authenticity of the exclusive, foreign goods is proven by the officially confirmed customs stamp. " Over time, the success set in and the shop became a popular meeting place for society.
Filz survived the turmoil of the revolution of 1848/49 in the Austrian Empire and in 1860 his son Wilhelm took over the business. Wilhelm Filz not only supplied the aristocracy and the upper class with scented water, but also the imperial court. In 1872 he received the privilege of court title from the emperor and was allowed to call himself an imperial court perfumer . At that time the company was called JB Filz's Sohn . Wilhelm Filz was best known for his lavender water, which in turn is mentioned in Heimito von Doderer's novel " Die Strudlhofstiege " .
His successor in the company was his son Kommerzialrat Rudolf Filz, who in 1905 also received the title of purveyor to the court. The First World War , the collapse of the monarchy, the Great Depression and finally the Second World War brought difficult times for the company as the funds for luxury goods were very limited for customers. Rudolf Filz died in 1949, his daughter-in-law Gertrude Filz took over the business. With her flair for business, she managed to re-establish the company during the post-war period.
Gertrude Filz's daughter, Helga Zmrzlik-Filz, has been running the company together with her daughter Angelika Liebhart in the sixth and seventh generation since 1978.
business
The small shop at "Graben 13" is a vault ( also called " Duft G'wölb " in Viennese ), in which there are historical wooden cupboards with perfumes and cosmetics that reach from the floor to the ceiling. The imperial double-headed eagle hangs on the wall, flanked by busts of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth . The public wielding of the imperial double-headed eagle was a privilege granted to purveyors to the court in order to display the court relationship. Kniže & Comp is located right next to the Filz shop . who was also a purveyor to the court.
literature
- Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors. Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .
- János Kalmár, Mella Waldstein: KuK purveyors to Vienna's court . Stocker, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-7020-0935-3 . Pp. 110-113.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 30.4 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 10.9 ″ E