History - a family company with tradition
1336/65 | “ze windenbach“, the sawmill is mentioned for the first time in a book of the monastery Ellwangen. |
1613 | The first time that a new built “sawmill and a shed“ is mentioned (Public Record Archive Stuttgart H 156, Bd 79, fol 449). |
1908 | Karl Hirschbach and his wife Pauline buy from the predecessor Ostertag the whole property. |
1943 | Separation oft he sawmill from the grain mill with the connected agriculture. Karl Hirschbach II continues the sawmill. |
1961 | Bernd Hirschbach joins the company of his father Karl Hirschbach II and after some years of experience becomes managing director. |
1979 | Construction of the new chipper canter-line. |
1983 | Shut down of the grain mill. |
1992 | Conversion of the grain mill building into an office builidng for the Hirschbach company. |
Installation of an additional chipper canter and construction of a new, fully automatic sorting machine for main and side cuts. | |
1994 | Claudia Hirschbach joins the company of her father Bernd Hirschbach and manages the company with him. |
1997 | Construction of further kiln-drying chambers and also of an additional stacking machine. |
2001 | Construction of a heated hall for storage of dried wood |
2004 | Construction of a large roof between fully automatic sorter machine and drying chambers. |
2005 | Birth of the fifth generation G. Hirschbach Swiers, daughter of Claudia and Ken Swiers. |
Construction of a canal coverage as additional storage space for logs. | |