Jeweler roller
| Juwelier Roller e. K.
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| legal form | registered merchant |
| founding | 1886 |
| Seat | Chemnitz , Germany |
| management | Carsten Schmidt-Kippig |
| Branch | Retail, jeweler |
| Website | www.juwelier-roller.de |
Juwelier Roller is a Chemnitz family business with its own watchmaker and goldsmith workshop . It was founded in 1886 by Jakob Roller, a goldsmith from Pforzheim . Today the company is run by the fifth generation of Carsten Schmidt-Kippig and operates two shops in downtown Chemnitz.
history
At the age of 25, Jakob Roller went hiking and settled in Chemnitz when he met his future wife Wilhelmine Agnes. In 1886 he opened a goldsmith's workshop on Friedrichstrasse. A second shop at Königstrasse 7 was added around 1910. In the meantime, the founder's two sons, Willi, a trained watchmaker, and Emil, who had both trained as a goldsmith and watchmaker , had also joined the company. In 1922 the two Roller brothers Willi and Emil bought the house at Königstrasse 7 and in 1927 a shop was built here in downtown Chemnitz through renovation. A year later, the third generation of the jewelery family was born with Emil's daughter Margot Roller.
The company owner Emil Roller was killed in an air raid on Chemnitz on February 14, 1945. His wife Gertrud and the children Margot and Annelies survived. On March 5, 1945, the house on Königstrasse was destroyed in another attack. The large vault from Roller Jeweler’s store is still under the park, as it was in the basement of the house.
After the Second World War , Gertrud Roller and her daughters continued to run the company, initially selling jewelry, sculptures and pictures by Margot Roller in the apartment on Eulitzstrasse on the Kaßberg . In 1948 a shop was opened on Schillerplatz. Margot Roller ran it together with the businessman Werner Rümmler, who became the company's authorized signatory and her husband. Roller survived the GDR era as a private trading business . In 1960, Juwelier Roller had to move to a shop at the main train station. The daughter Andrea joined the business in 1969. In 1976 their son Carsten was born.
In 1990 the station kiosk, the previous company headquarters, was demolished. That is why Juwelier Roller moved into a temporary shop at Wilhelm-Külz-Platz until 1992. On November 24, 1990, Andrea and her husband Bernd Kippig opened their first modern store with new brands and a new look in the Hotel Chemnitzer Hof on Theaterplatz as a second location . The business existed until June 30, 2005. In December 1991, the long-standing location on Bahnhofstrasse was reopened in the newly constructed building. It remained the second shop and the seat of the goldsmith's workshop until 2003. In addition to the stationary trade, Juwelier Roller set up an online shop in 1997.
In April 2000, Roller opened in the gallery at Neumarkt 2 in the new Roter Turm gallery. At the same time, Carsten Schmidt-Kippig, the fifth generation, actively joined the company. In September 2003 the second location opened directly on the market, the atelier in Innere Klosterstrasse 1.
On May 15, 2019, the new head office opened in the annex building of the previous location, with an exhibition area of more than 400 m² over two floors. It now also offers space for Meissen porcelain goods .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b As old as Coca-Cola. In: Chemnitzer Stadtjournal: Magazine of the Free Press. November 2001, p. 5
- ↑ a b Oldest jeweler celebrates anniversary. In: Free Press . 28/29 October 2006, p. 15
- ↑ Jewelry shows personality. In: Chemnitzer Stadtjournal: Magazine of the Free Press. July / August 2005, p. 8
- ^ Jeweler with studio. In: Free Press . 27./28. September 2003, p. 17