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(1907 until 1950) The Winterling brothers were from the same family as Heinrich Winterling who since 1903 owned a porcelain factory in Marktleuthen (Bavaria) with the name of ⇒Heinrich Winterling G.m.b.H. & Co. K.G. The company history started here in Röslau, located in the heart of the so-called ’Fichtelgebirge’ in the Upper Franconia area of Bavaria, where the seven Winterling brothers founded the Gebrüder Winterling O.H.G. in 1907 with a newly built facility for porcelain production. As business went well straight from the beginning, the facility is upgraded and expanded quite often. In 1917, the company took over the Porzellanfabrik Oscar Schaller & Co. in Schwarzenbach (Bavaria). The upward trend was so promising that they bought and converted the textile factory in Kirchenlamitz (Bavaria) in 1920 and took over the company Porzellanfabrik Eduard Haberländer in Windischeschenbach (Upper Franconia, Bavaria) in 1929. These extensions of the parent firm were all kept under the name of Oscar Schaller & Co. In 1950 the company reached corporation status and gave out shares, the main shareholders being the Winterling family members themselves. All daughter companies were re-named to Gebrüder Winterling A.G. and the marks used up until then were changed. In 1954 they opened the fifth facility in Bruchmühlbach, located in the Rhineland-Palatinate. In this facility the company produced earthenware up until 1995 when it was closed. But then the Winterling luck ran out. The Winterling Porzellan A.G. in Kirchenlamitz tumbled into insolvency due to family arguments and the facility in Röslau (with over 500 workers) was threatened by closure. Finally in November 2000 the corporation was officially declared bankrupt and taken over by the Triptis Porzellan G.m.b.H. & Co. K.G. in Triptis (Thuringia)." (http://www.porcelainmarksandmore.com/germany/bavaria/roeslau-01/index.php, abgerufen am 27.11.2015) "Gebrüder Winterling war ein deutsches Familienunternehmen und Hersteller von Porzellan. Es nahm seinen Anfang mit der Gründung der Porzellanfabrik Heinrich Winterling in Marktleuthen 1903 und der Errichtung der „Gebrüder Winterling OHG“ in Röslau 1906. 1992 wurden die zahlreichen Firmen mit Ausnahme des Werks in Marktleuthen zu einer Aktiengesellschaft zusammengefasst, der Winterling Porzellan-AG mit Sitz in Kirchenlamitz. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt bildete sie das viertgrößte Unternehmen der Keramikbranche in Deutschland. Im September 1999 musste Insolvenz angemeldet werden. Die Marken Winterling und Eschenbach gehören seit dem Jahr 2000 zur ehemaligen Konzerntochter Triptis (Eschenbach Porzellan Group)." - (Wikipedia (de) 10.08.2021)