»Juliane« Ladies Hunting Trousers, Loden

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Philipp and Aloisia Stiegler founded the loden mill in Mandling (Germany) in 1888. In 1910, the enthusiastic mountain guide Franz Steiner took over the mill from his uncle Zacharias. One year earlier, he and his brother Irg had been the first to climb the notorious Dachstein south face, a wall over 850 metres high on the southern slope of the Dachstein massif towards Ramsau. The »Steiner Route« named after them is still considered one of the most demanding mountain tours in the Alps. The Steiner family have always been pioneers when it comes to technology. In the mid-1920s Franz Steiner built an electricity plant in Mandling to generate his own electricity. His son Willi Steiner Sr. built a state-of-the-art factory building in 1945 and expanded the manufactory into a full-scale operation. In what is now the 4th generation, Herbert and Johannes Steiner have now taken over the management of the company.