Zeitter & Winkelmann
Zeitter & Winkelmann was the oldest piano manufacturing company founded in Braunschweig . It was founded in 1837 by Christian Ludewig Theodor Winkelmann .
Company history
In the house at Wollmarkt 3 in Braunschweig, Christian Theodor Winkelmann initially manufactured table pianos with four to five employees , soon also grand pianos . In 1851 Friedrich Zeitter joined the company as a partner, among other things he introduced the crossing of strings and iron frames. The annual production could be expanded to 60 to 80 instruments.
In 1888 a new building was erected in Hildesheimer Strasse, which was expanded in 1924. That same year it was 30,000. Piano produced. In the 1920s Zeitter & Winkelmann, the Schimmel company, also based in Braunschweig, and a few other piano manufacturers merged to form "Deutsche Pianowerke AG". This association dissolved again in the 1930s, with Zeitter & Winkelmann and Schimmel remaining independent.
The production facilities were destroyed by the bombing raid on Braunschweig on October 15, 1944 ; however, Rudolf Winkelmann jun. the rebuilding of the company in Leipziger Strasse. In 1963 he sold the Zeitter & Winkelmann company to the Seiler Pianofortefabrik in Kitzingen.
literature
- Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992.
- Jörg Leuschner, Karl Heinrich Kaufhold, Claudia Märtl (ed.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigische Land from the Middle Ages to the present , Vol. 3: Modern times . Georg Olms Verlag , Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13599-1 .
Other piano manufacturers from Braunschweig
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leuschner, Kaufhold, Märtl (ed.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigisches Land from the Middle Ages to the present , Volume 3, p. 540
- ↑ Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, p. 252.
- ↑ Personality boards for Schimmel and Winkelmann revealed regionalbraunschweig.de, September 27, 2018.