147 Years of tradition.

Made in Gießen.

1876

Louis Heyligenstaedt establishes a mechanical engineering company in Unteren Riegelpfad, Giessen.

1883

The 10,000th machine is built.

1900

The company takes part in the World Fair in Paris.

1907

The 100,000th machine is built and Heyligenstaedt now has 500 employees.

1910

Louis Heyligenstaedt dies on November 20th 1910.

1938

The first copy milling machine is presented at the Leipzig spring fair.

1951

Heyligenstaedt celebrates its 75th anniversary and its first inclined bed copy lathe; Heycomat. There are over 1000 employees.

1976

100 years of Heyligenstaedt! Administration moves to a new building in Wilhelmstrasse and there are 1520 employees.

1996

Heyligenstaedt is newly founded as Heyligenstaedt Werkzeigmachinen GmbH on the 8th of May, 1996.

1997

Heyligenstaedt acquires Ravensburg AG, a machine factory, after it goes into bankruptcy.

2000

Heyligenstaedt obtains the product rights to the Kolb Werkzeugmachinen GmbH construction program.

2001

On August 26 in 2001 the company celebrates its 125th anniversary.

2005

A new training center is opened for a total amount of 20 trainees.

2022

Heyligenstaedt becomes 100% part of the WEIMER Group.

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