Research shows that the glassmaker tradition of the Eisch family dates back to Mathias Alesch, who was born in the Bohemian Forest in 1689, and who is mentioned there on the list of employees of a small glassworks.

As from the year 1914, Valentin Eisch, the founder of the Eisch glass factory, worked as a master engraver at the crystal glass factory of Counsellor of Commerce Isidor Gistl. In 1946 he started his own refining company together with his wife Therese, in order to build up a secure existence for his six children.

Soon the existing glass factories in the Bavarian Forest feared the formation of competition, which they wanted to prevent by blocking raw glass deliveries to the Eisch factory. The Eisch family therefore was forced to establish a glass production of its own.

In 1997 the German chancellor of that time, Helmut Kohl, visited the Eisch glass factory. To him, Erwin Eisch presented the "Helmut Kohl" glass portrait head.

Today, it is the third family generation that controls the Eisch glass factory. Since January 1993, the responsibility for the Eisch glass factory has rested with the juniors Julia Eichinger-Eisch and Eberhard Eisch.

The family history of the Eisch glass factory is described in great detail and most impressively in the book "Die Eisch-Hütte" by Dr. Katahrina Eisch. For more detailied information on this book, please contact the Eisch glass factory at tel. 09926/1890.