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Der Weg zu R\u00fchle ist keine Abk\u00fcrzung. Er f\u00fchrt an verschiedenen Seen vorbei, den Berg hinauf und wenn man eine bundesweit bekannte Brauerei gesehen hat, ist man fast am Ziel \u2013 im kleinen Schwarzwalddorf Grafenhausen.<\/p>\n
Von hier kommen Maschinen, die HighTech pur sind. Die Originale von R\u00fchle. Dass die Firma noch immer hier oben zu Hause ist, das hat vor allem mit einer Frau zu tun: Marlene R\u00fchle.<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ custom_padding_last_edited=”off|desktop” _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#EAE4DC” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”75px||0px||false|false” custom_padding_tablet=”120px||120px||false|false” custom_padding_phone=”90px||90px||false|false” bottom_divider_style=”wave” bottom_divider_color=”#FFFFFF” bottom_divider_height=”30px” bottom_divider_repeat=”3x” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ make_equal=”on” custom_padding_last_edited=”off|desktop” _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#392F2C” background_enable_image=”off” z_index=”58″ max_width=”1200px” custom_margin=”0px||-95px||false|false” custom_padding=”45px|35px|40px|35px|false|false” custom_padding_tablet=”70px|35px|70px|35px|false|false” custom_padding_phone=”60px||60px||false|false” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”bottom” animation_intensity_slide=”6%” animation_speed_curve=”ease” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#FFFFFF” text_font_size=”24px” text_line_height=”1.2em” header_2_font=”Outfit|600|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_2_line_height=”1.25em” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” header_2_font_size_tablet=”46px” header_2_font_size_phone=”30px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]”Only in the Black Forest am I at home.” [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Marlene R\u00fchle is a native of the Black Forest. She recently celebrated her 80th birthday in Grafenhausen. In her office, there are freshly unwrapped gifts, but also relics from another time. For example, an old calculating machine or a 30-year-old fax machine, which Mrs. R\u00fchle still uses today. Certificates and honors hang on the wall. Among them is a Bavarian State Prize and various awards from Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. She has received the Economic Medal and is proud of it.<\/p>\n Her desk is oriented towards the window. If you walked into the room while Marlene R\u00fchle was working, you would only see the back of her head. There is a reason for this. “Just look,” she says, making a sweeping arm movement along the window front. “Should I miss this view and instead look at the door?” The view from the window spans almost 180 degrees. A true Black Forest panorama. From Marlene R\u00fchle’s office, you could photograph glossy posters or postcards. “On clear days, you can see all the way to the Alps,” she says proudly.<\/p>\n Marlene and Willy R\u00fchle founded the company together five decades ago. Her husband, who passed away in 1991, had previously worked for a Swabian machine builder. But at some point, Marlene R\u00fchle gave him an ultimatum: Black Forest or nothing. Willy R\u00fchle made the right decision. The opportunity to trade Grafenhausen for another location came up several times. After their breakthrough, a Bavarian client wanted to lure the company to Munich. There was even a production hall available there.<\/p>\n At one point, they were almost in agreement with a community in South Baden. And after the reunification, there was a lucrative offer from East Germany. The plot in Plauen was already marked out, and the economic development engine almost absorbed R\u00fchle as well. But not with Marlene R\u00fchle. In case of doubt, she was the deciding factor. Her word made the difference. “We are staying here,” she said. “Here is our home.”<\/p>\n Marlene R\u00fchle’s parental home stands a few hundred meters from the current company headquarters. It was built in 1665. Almost exactly 300 years later \u2013 in 1962 \u2013 Willy R\u00fchle began inventing machines here. He built them differently from anything else on the market at that time. “Our first machine was a cutting machine mainly for ham and bacon,” recalls Marlene R\u00fchle.<\/p>\n In the predecessor models of other manufacturers, the rind was still inserted vertically. “That was not nice,” says Marlene R\u00fchle. The cut slices were crushed under the weight of the meat. Willy R\u00fchle was the first to store the meat horizontally and thus managed to build an automatic machine that cut more cleanly than a butcher with a freshly sharpened knife.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#eae4dc” bottom_divider_style=”wave” bottom_divider_color=”#FFFFFF” bottom_divider_height=”30px” bottom_divider_repeat=”3x” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px|auto||auto|false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”||||||||” header_2_text_align=”left” header_2_font_size=”60px” header_3_text_align=”center” header_3_font_size=”28px” max_width=”1000px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ header_2_font_size_tablet=”60px” header_2_font_size_phone=”32px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Even in the following years, R\u00fchle’s originals set standards. The brine injector, the hand tumbler, the first batch tumbler, or a frozen meat cutter \u2013 in the first 15 years, the small company created more of its own inventions than some others do in 100 years. And this, even as the family grew alongside the company.<\/p>\n The three children, Sabine, Claus, and J\u00f6rg, were born two years apart starting in 1964. Marlene R\u00fchle demonstrated how to balance career and family long before the country talked about childcare, flexible working hours, or work\/life balance. At the R\u00fchles’, sleeves were rolled up. Yet, the good atmosphere did not suffer: “Our first apprentice, who started here in 1966, is still with the company,” Marlene R\u00fchle says. He is also a true Black Forest original. A R\u00fchle, indeed.<\/p>\n Willy R\u00fchle recognized early on that it wasn’t enough to build machines like others and then offer them in a new color. He developed ideas, introduced new techniques, and eventually had to ask himself how to prevent being copied by others. The answer remains: high performance. The R\u00fchles always aimed to stay one step ahead of their competitors.<\/p>\n After Willy R\u00fchle’s death, what the couple had always wished for was completed: Marlene R\u00fchle built a new factory in the Black Forest, on a green field in Grafenhausen. There was little time for mourning. The plans were in place, and the construction took just nine months. Then they moved to the new location.<\/p>\n Today, everything is under one roof \u2013 development, production, assembly, and administration. About 160 employees work here. In the early 2000s, the facility was even expanded by another 1300 square meters. By then, R\u00fchle, the small company that had struggled to survive in its early years, had long since become an economic backbone of the Upper Black Forest. Medium-sized companies like R\u00fchle \u2013 owner-managed, family-oriented, inventive \u2013 are becoming increasingly rare in the villages around the Feldberg.<\/p>\n The successful succession at R\u00fchle is also thanks to Claus R\u00fchle. He joined the management in 1999, taking over his father’s role, becoming a tinkerer and visionary, ensuring that R\u00fchle’s technology remains distinctive. Claus R\u00fchle is an original Black Forest native \u2013 just like his mother, just like the company that bears their name, and just like the machines built here in Grafenhausen. All genuine originals. That’s the only way it works.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#eae4dc” top_divider_style=”wave” top_divider_color=”#FFFFFF” top_divider_height=”30px” top_divider_repeat=”3x” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px|auto||auto|false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”||||||||” header_2_text_align=”left” header_2_font_size=”60px” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ header_2_font_size_tablet=”60px” header_2_font_size_phone=”32px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]In 1966, Marlene and Willy R\u00fchle founded the machine-building company R\u00fchle, which soon gained a reputation in the butcher trade for its innovative and brilliantly simple technology. The first original R\u00fchle machine from 1966 revolutionized the cutting technique for bacon and ham. In the following years, Willy R\u00fchle invented more machines \u2013 for brining, tumbling, and mixing. After his death in 1991, Marlene R\u00fchle took over the management. The following year, the company, which had previously been housed in Marlene R\u00fchle’s parental home, moved to its current headquarters in Grafenhausen.<\/p>\n Claus R\u00fchle, one of the couple’s three children, earned his first stripes in the business in the early 1990s. In 1999, he became the managing director. The following year, Marlene R\u00fchle officially handed over the company to him. However, she remained active at the helm of R\u00fchle until 2013. 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\nMarlene R\u00fchle<\/span>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ custom_padding_last_edited=”off|desktop” _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”250px||0px||false|false” custom_padding_tablet=”120px||120px||false|false” custom_padding_phone=”90px||90px||false|false” top_divider_style=”waves” top_divider_color=”#EAE4DC” top_divider_height=”30px” top_divider_flip=”vertical” bottom_divider_style=”wave” bottom_divider_color=”#EAE4DC” bottom_divider_height=”30px” bottom_divider_repeat=”3x” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px|auto||auto|false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”||||||||” header_2_text_align=”left” header_2_font_size=”60px” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ header_2_font_size_tablet=”60px” header_2_font_size_phone=”32px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\nBlack Forest or nothing<\/h2>\n
Willy R\u00fchle was the first to store the meat horizontally, which allowed him to build an automatic machine that cuts more cleanly than a butcher with a freshly sharpened knife.<\/h3>\n
The R\u00fchle Story<\/h2>\n