They write, in the fifth generation the family Kneissler produces pocket knives since 1875 in Zell am Harmersbach in the Black Forest (South-West Germany).
They do the normal pocket knifes in two sizes and with several handle materials, and they offer a wood marking knife and a shepherds knife too.
They write they produce tool knifes for farmers and no collectors stuff.
They offer stainless steel (rostfrei) and carbon steel blades.
In theyr working place they sharpen every quality stuff as a service, and in theyr shop they sell a lot of quality knifes and other kitchen stuff from other high quality makers too.
I think, with 8055 inhabitants that's more a village than a town, and so they do all and everything that belongs to kitchen and cutting tools. That area is very traditional.
In the middle ages Zell was the smallest independent town of the German empire, that's the reason why theyr colours of arms show the colours of the empire, the emperor, now a days the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, and no other sign like the larger independent towns have it in connection to the eagle.
That must have been an independent town you could walk through within 5 or 10 minutes.
Very funny. Surely worth a visit.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zell_am_Harmersbach
Röthlisberger is swiss.
I would like to point out, that Kneissler starts with 31€, Röthlisberger with 164 Schweizer Franken.
Last year I bought a well sized, nearly undecorated original Laguiole, made in France, for 60€, by the way.
