History

1805 Karl Smola founds the Oberdorf glassworks in Bärnbach on 15th June.

1835 Carl Stölzle founds two glass factories in Upper Austria’s Waldviertel region.

1848 The Oberdorf glassworks become „k.u.k.“ (imperial and royal) glassworks.

1867 Stölzle manufacturing consists of seven glass factories in Austria, Bohemia and Hungary.

1871 The glass factory in Köflach, Austria is established.

1900 Stölzle employs 1,100 skilled tradesmen, 1,000 labourers and 80 sales agents.

1919 After the end of WWI the Stölzle group of companies disintegrates.

1945 After the end of WWII three glass factories from the former Czechoslovakia are hived off from the group of companies.

1978 The Stölzle Glasindustrie AG and the Oberglas Glashütten AG merge and become the Stölzle-Oberglas AG.

1987 The Stölzle-Oberglas AG is taken over by Dr. Cornelius Grupp (CAG-Holding)

1988 The exhibition “Glass and coal” in the Steiermark region of Austria is held in Bärnbach. Since then, the newly built Stölzle Glass Centre hosts yearly exhibitions about glass.

1992 Purchase of the glassworks Hermanova Hut in the Czech Republic (Stölzle Union A.S.)

1994 Purchase of the glassworks in Knottingley, Great Britain (Stölzle Flaconnage Ltd.)

1996 Purchase of the glassworks in Weißwasser, Germany (Stölzle-Oberglas Lausitz GmbH)

2000 Change of corporate form from Stölzle-Oberglas AG to Stölzle-Oberglas AG & Co KG

2001 Purchase of the glassworks in Czestochowa, Poland (Stölzle Czestochowa S.A.)

2005 Change of corporate form from Stölzle-Oberglas AG & Co. KG to Stölzle-Oberglas GmbH