Our history

Digando - Digital platform for construction machinery rental

Takeover of Lorenz Lift GmbH in Feldkirch, rental of working platforms and construction machinery.

Acquisition of the excavator attachment specialist Martin GmbH in Braz (A). Previously, they were a business partner of Huppenkothen for many years specialising in excavator buckets and quick-coupler plates.

Opening of the LEED-certified i+R Gruppe corporate headquarters on new company premises in Johann-Schertler-Strasse in Lauterach (A).

Opening of window construction branch at Dammstrasse 6, Lauterach (A) - shown in picture

Opening of the construction logistics centre on new company premises in Johann-Schertler-Strasse, Lauterach.

Acquisition of the new Vienna Central Station construction project (2010 - 2014): largest construction contract in company history

The takeover of the construction company Dietrich Bau in Lindau (D) accelerated our activities in the German Lake Constance region focusing on site development and property development.

Takeover of Bautruck construction logistics company and Moosbrugger gravel plant, Langen

Shares distributed 50% to Schertler-Holding and 50% to Alge-Holding

Growth in property development and general contracting

Ingmar Alge falls ill and retires from active service, Joachim Alge becomes Managing Director

Image: Ingmar Alge (l) and Günter Schertler (r) at Ms Brüstle's send-off celebration, early 1990s

Management of the company taken over by Dkfm. Franz Wirth

Direct import of Takeuchi mini excavators

Foundation of partnership between this Japanese manufacturer and the Vorarlberg construction machinery dealer, which continues to this day

in Vienna and Central Europe.

Foundation of S+B Gruppe AG
in Vienna.

Image: i+R skiing day trip with Ingmar Alge (1st row, 3rd from left), Günter Schertler (6th from right) and staff

opening an office in Herrengutgasse in Lauterach (A)

In addition to the carpentry and construction business, the company expands the property development sector as a further mainstay. Residential construction projects are developed and implemented to then sell the flats as property developers.

Das schöne Heim (the beautiful home) exhibition

20 of these wooden houses are built in the Vorarlberg region.

Fire at the company plant and sawmill

- Building and many semi-finished components for houses in France destroyed

- Fire prevented from spreading to the residential house and old workshop

- Cause of fire: improperly heated sawdust oven

- New beginning accompanied by great difficulties

- Topping-out ceremony in April 1948

- Increased number of orders

- Crew barracks, aircraft hangars, crates for the armed forces

- Over 100 employees

 Towards the end of the war, insulating materials were in short supply

- Reeds from Lake Constance were used

- Workers' camps (refugees, Poles, Russians, Hungarians etc.) in Höchst for reed cutting

Image: Workforce in front of the old saw at the end of the 1930s

- Around 30 workers before 1930

- Great Depression

- Son Rudolf Schertler grows into the business

Image: Rudolf Schertler during his journeyman years

from Lauterach church council: raising the church tower by 10 m.

Johann Schertler (born 1875) marries Anna Büchele (daughter of the community leader and member of parliament Josef Büchele)

- Business opens providing carpentry, joinery and glazing services

- All work done manually without the use of machines

- Needlework boom: houses are needed – timber construction

- Acquisition of a planing machine, band saw, milling machine, drilling machine, circular saw and carriage saw.

- Working hours: 6 a.m. – 7 p.m.-; Saturdays until 5 p.m.

- Workshop turns into a small factory

- 10 workers

Image: Anna and Johann Schertler (l+r) with their children Rudolf, Rita and Emma - Johann Schertler founded the company in 1904 and played a major role in shaping its development in the years that followed.