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'''Josef Brunner''', oldest son of the farmer Konstantin Brunner from the hamlet Nieder-Huggerwald belonging to the community of Kleinlützel (Canton Solothurn), was sent in 1871 to a pipe turner in Winkel / Alsace for his apprenticeship. Like it was usual at that time, Brunner went on wanderings as travelling journeyman after ending the apprenticeship. So he came to Saint-Claude, the world's stronghold of the briar pipe manufacturing then. There Brunner was able to increase and deepen his knowledge in the field of industrial pipe making. | '''Josef Brunner''', oldest son of the farmer Konstantin Brunner from the hamlet Nieder-Huggerwald belonging to the community of Kleinlützel (Canton Solothurn), was sent in 1871 to a pipe turner in Winkel / Alsace for his apprenticeship. Like it was usual at that time, Brunner went on wanderings as travelling journeyman after ending the apprenticeship. So he came to Saint-Claude, the world's stronghold of the briar pipe manufacturing then. There Brunner was able to increase and deepen his knowledge in the field of industrial pipe making. | ||
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At some point in the late 1970's Bru-Bu went out of business. Some of the Brunners, as far as known, continued as timber traders. But in 1986 new life filled the old Bru-Bu pipe workshop, when the gang of '''Dr. Horst Wiethüchter''' and '''"Former" Nielsen''' started to produce the high-grade '''[[Bentley]]''' pipes there. (The article on Bentley is coming soon.) | At some point in the late 1970's Bru-Bu went out of business. Some of the Brunners, as far as known, continued as timber traders. But in 1986 new life filled the old Bru-Bu pipe workshop, when the gang of '''Dr. Horst Wiethüchter''' and '''"Former" Nielsen''' started to produce the high-grade '''[[Bentley]]''' pipes there. (The article on Bentley is coming soon.) | ||
Following Josef Brunner, '''Moritz Tschan''' in 1892 established a second pipe factory in Kleinlützel. Wherewith the small place in the Canton of Solothurn became the center of the Swiss pipe manufacturing - rhapsodically called "the Saint-Claude of Switzerland". | Following Josef Brunner, '''Moritz Tschan''' in 1892 established a second pipe factory in Kleinlützel. Wherewith the small place in the Canton of Solothurn became the center of the Swiss pipe manufacturing - rhapsodically called "the Saint-Claude of Switzerland". | ||
[[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]][[Category: Switzerland]] | [[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]][[Category: Switzerland]] |