During the Seventeenth Century, Bohemia, in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, was the glass making capital of Europe. Its seemingly endless forests gave the glass makers all the timber they needed to fire their ovens.
The Riedel story began with Johann Christoph. Born in 1678, he worked as a merchant based in Sudetenland and made a small fortune by exporting the glassware produced in his home region, as far a field as Spain and Portugal. Even though travel at that time was arduous and sometimes dangerous, the money he made more than compensated him for any discomfort he endured.
Johanns son: Johann Carl made a living in his own glass cutting and gilding workshop. But it wasnt until the end of the Austrian-Prussian Seven-Year War in 1756 that the Riedel family really began to make their mark.
The regions property had been devastated during this time and major re-development work ensued. Johann Leopold established the familys first glass works, which opened for business in 1756 and specialized in making replacement windows. His real claim to fame was that he designed a method whereby damaged stained glass, which would have cost a small fortune to repair, was...
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