Carl Loebner Torgau

Carl Loebner, located in Torgau, Germany, is the world's oldest toy store. The first documented mention of the shop in the history of Torgau goes back to the year 1685. The company has always been passed down from father to son and is currently run by the twelfth generation.

History
At the end of 1685, after his marriage in Leipzig, master wood turner Christoph Loebner opened his master workshop in turning craft in Torgau and made wooden toys. Company names were first officially recorded in the time of his grandson Carl Loebner, giving the company the name it still uses today. In 1780 guild master Johann-George Loebner acquired the house on Bäckerstraße on Torgau's market square, which is still used today as a shop, and continued to manufacture his wooden toys there, which he first sold on the markets in the area and at the Leipzig Trade Fair sold. His initial products were wooden dolls, drumsticks, spinning tops, skittles, whistles and billiard balls.

Starting with the sixth generation, the Loebners were pure toy merchants. They stopped toy production.