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1875-1900 Until the year 1875 there was no possibility for the farmers in the valley Bregenzerwald to change the optained wool from their sheeps against a few meters of Loden coth or handknitting yarn. The farmer Josef Anton and his wife Maria Barbara knew this situation well. So they decided to establish a woollen mill. The machines were bought from a small mill in eastern France, then forwarded with horse carriages to Bezau and installed in the old craftshouse. In former times a cornmill was this house. It was driven by three waterwheels which could also be used to power the machines of the woolen mill. The family Fischer didn´t know how to process wool into the cloth called "Loden" by the use of machines. To solve this problem the spinning and weaving master also moved from the Elsaß to Bezau. Now there was a complete woollen mill in the valley Bregenzerwald which included a dyeing, spinning, weaving and finishing department. Maria Barbara Fischer peddled with the Loden cloth in the area Bregenzerwald and the adjacent Rheintal. She was often on a journey for weeks to get the desired orders. Therefore she was called the "Lodowible".
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