Ronnefeldt tea house

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JT Ronnefeldt KG

logo
legal form KG
founding 1823 (1821)
Seat Frankfurt am Main
management Frank Holzapfel
Jan-Berend Holzapfel
Branch tea
Website www.ronnefeldt.de

Ronnefeldt (seen from Schloßstraße)

The Teehaus Ronnefeldt is a trading company specializing in tea based in Frankfurt am Main . The brand name is mainly associated with the flavored green tea blend Morgentau . Today the company employs around 160 people at the headquarters in Frankfurt and at the production site in Worpswede .

Ronnefeldt 2011

Company history

According to official data, Johann Tobias Ronnefeldt, who was active in Rotterdam and London, founded the company in 1823. When he died in 1845 at the age of 51, his widow Friederike, whom he had married in 1831, ran the business together for 15 years Authorized officers continued until their sons succeeded them. Her grandson Rudolf Ronnefeldt traveled around the world in 1889 at the age of 24 and documented his travel experiences in a diary that provides information about the tea trade of that time. After his world tour, he married Emma Rössler, the daughter of Degussa founder Friedrich Ernst Roessler .

First half of the 20th century

In 1904, Hans Christiansen , an Art Nouveau artist from the Darmstadt artists' colony , designed an advertising poster with a dragon's head as a symbol for Chinese tea. In 1914 the company moved to Goethestrasse 3, after having been based at Roßmarkt 8 for ten years .

The two world wars brought the tea trade largely to a standstill. During the First World War , the company founded together with Ed. Messmer GmbH and the wine trading company Bernhard Wiesengrund, which at the time owned by the father of Theodor W. Adorno was the joint venture beverage GmbH for a caffeinated Ersatztees which under the brand name Stimula was marketed.

The beginning of the 1950s came Herwerth Westphal, the grandson of Rudolf Ronnefeldt, the company that after the destruction of the building on Goethestrasse in the air raids on Frankfurt by bombs in Frankfurt-Bockenheim had settled. He ran the company together with Georg Lülmann, managing director and co-owner until the early eighties.

Since the 1970s

Frank Holzapfel came to Ronnefeldt in the late 1970s. In 1984 he took over the company from Herwarth Westphal, who retired in 1987. His son Jan-Berend Holzapfel was gradually integrated into the management of the company. In 2004 he became managing director, and in 2012 he took over from his father. In 2009 a shop was opened on the Zeil .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 15.9 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 30.1 ″  E