Dr. Rudolf Spitaler (RS)

Chemist Rudolf Spitaler arrived in Creglingen in 1946, in the U.S. occupation zone, and established a workshop for model making and toys. With the help of a group of displaced Sudeten German women, the workshop developed a hand-built range of houses and landscape models. The subjects reflected buildings of Franconian and Alpine-influenced southern Germany, which Spitaler used as models for his work.

The RS range included rural houses and farmhouses, town houses, towers and gates, stations and other railway buildings. Early models were made in 0 gauge; the specialist history documents the models in the first RS main catalogue of 1951 and additional models made between 1951 and 1953. The documented workshop period ends in 1953. That chronology describes the RS workshop and range; it does not by itself establish when the brand or production finally ceased.