Gasthof Hotel Krone Albeck

History and story

Robert Bosch was born here on September 23, 1861, the eleventh of twelve children. His parents belonged to the regional farming upper class. His father, a Freemason, was educated beyond his station and attached particular importance to a good education for his children. From 1869 to 1876, Robert Bosch attended the secondary school in Ulm and then completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic.

Robert Bosch then spent seven years working for various companies in Germany, the USA and Great Britain before opening a “workshop for precision mechanics and electrical engineering” in Stuttgart on November 15, 1886.

In 1887, Robert Bosch made significant improvements to an unpatented magneto igniter from Maschinenfabrik Deutz, which brought him his first commercial success. The device is used to generate an electric spark that causes the gas mixture in a (stationary) combustion engine to explode. In 1897, Robert Bosch succeeded for the first time in adapting such a magneto to a motor vehicle engine. In doing so, he solved one of the biggest technical problems of the still young automobile technology.