About us
Tradition
‘Kopschitz Kerzen’ has been the embodiment of a traditional family business for over 200 years. Founded in 1810 in Sudetenland (a native German-speaking region of the current Czech Republic), the official registration of the candle-factory ‘Kopschitz’ took place over a hundred years later in Opava, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In the earliest years of the business, Eduard Richard Kopschitz and his children produced ‘Lebkuchen’ and other confectionary as well as candles.
After the Second World War the Kopschitz family made Rotthalmünster in Lower-Bavaria their new home.
Since 2013 the business has been jointly-managed by the fifth generation of the family: the brothers Dr. Alexander Kopschitz and Dipl.-Ing. Christian Kopschitz, MBA.
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2015
New pillar candle machine increases production throughput capacity by 3,500 candles per hour.
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2013
Dipl.-Ing. Christian Kopschitz, MBA joins the executive board.
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2010
New pillar candle machine increases production throughput capacity by 2,500 candles per hour.
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2009
Construction of a high-bay storage facility with a 3,500 pallet capacity.
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2005
New pillar candle machine increases production throughput capacity by 3,000 candles per hour.
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2004
Dr. Alexander Kopschitz joins the executive board.
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2002
Construction of the new 800 m² factory outlet store.
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1999
Expansion of the raw material tanks by 150,000 litres and modernisation of the powder production facility.
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1998
Installation of a fully-automated church candle machine with a throughput capacity of 1,500 candles per hour.
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1997
Modernisation of five pillar candle machines with a total throughput capacity of over 10,000 candles per hour.
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1996
Installation of a fully-automated tapered candle machine with a throughput capacity of 3,000 candles per hour.
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1992
Construction of an on-site high-bay storage facility with a 600 pallet capacity.
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1991
Commissioning of a new production facility in Lhenice in the Czech Republic.
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1990
Installation of a fully-automated taper and tree-candle machine with a throughput capacity of approximately 5,000 candles per hour.
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1984
Hans Kopschitz takes over the management of ‘Erich Kopschitz GmbH’.
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1976
Expansion of the production premises by 1,800 m² for both fully-automated production facilities and picking operations.
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1964
Expansion of the production premises by 800 m².
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1963
Expansion of the production premises by 1,200 m².
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1962
Expansion of the production premises by 600 m².
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1959
Expansion of the production premises by 500 m².
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1956
Construction of and relocation to a new production facility in ‘Am Goldberg’ in Rotthalmünster.
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1949
Following a long and eventually fruitless search for suitable premises in Wegscheid, the business moved to a rented property in ‘Kirchplatz’ in Rotthalmünster.
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1947
Following his release from a prisoner of war camp, Erich Kopschitz re-opens for business in Wegscheid in the Bavarian Forest.
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1944
Dispossession and flight due the events of the Second World War.
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1914
Continuation of business operation of the Sudeten Candle Factory by Hugo Kopschitz (eng.)
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1882
Eduard Kopschitz takes-over the business.
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1810
Foundation of the candle factory by the Hadwiger family in Troppau (nowadays: Opava, Czech Republic).
