History of the company Fassbender Tenten
Join us on a journey through time in the company’s history. A great piece of building tradition awaits you! Find out how the company today Fassbender Tenten has developed over the last four centuries and a generation of carpenters has become what is now Bonn's largest building materials trading company and certainly one of the most exciting employers in the Bonn area.
since 1620
the ancestors of the Faßbender family were carpenters in an uninterrupted succession of generations, i.e. for more than twelve generations. Almost four centuries of building tradition.
1778
The master Johannes Faßbender, the great-great-great-great-grandfather of Paul Faßbender, built Alfter one of the most beautiful half-timbered houses in Germany. The magazine “Schöner Wohnen” named the house “House of the Year” in 1993.
1931
A lottery win of 10,000 Reichsmarks was the starting capital for Paul Faßbender’s parents to build a house in an old barn in Holzgasse in Alfter to open a wood and building materials wholesale business.
1949
son Paul Faßbender joined the company.
1971
he bought the land in Alfter -Oedekoven, the current headquarters of the group. Paul Faßbender founded the cooperation “Moderner Baubedarf – Mobau” (today Eurobaustoff) with other building material dealers
1981
Opening of the first OBI Construction and DIY market in Alfter -Oedekoven
1992
Thomas Faßbender, the son of Paul and Margret Faßbender, joined the company.
1992
The Faßbender company acquired the company Wilhelm Tenten, the building materials business founded in 1860 in Bonn The childless Tenten couple donated their wealth to the Tenten Foundation. Today, Bonn's largest private foundation supports between 500 and 600 Bonn citizens every year. Paul Faßbender has been a member of the board of trustees since 1998.
1995
Opening of the OBI Market in Euskirchen
1995
Founding of the Faßbender Foundation on February 21, 1995
1996
Takeover of the Wilhelm-Schmitz building materials company, founded in 1910, in Rheinbach . / Opening OBI Euskirchen.
1997
Reopening after renovation Bonn , Bornheimer Str. 172
1998
Opening of the OBI Market Rheinbach with large building materials trade as a combined location
1999
Affiliation of Mietprofi to the Fassbender Tenten Markets in Rheinbach and Alfter
1999
opening Fassbender Tenten in Bonn -Bad Godesberg
2001
opening Fassbender Tenten in Cologne-Zollstock with attached rental professional
2002
Opening of building materials store with hardware store and garden center in Blankenheim with rental professional
2003
Acquisition of the company Akustik Rhein GmbH
2004
Opening of the new OBI Market in Alfter
2005
Opening of the new building materials store Alfter / Strategic alliance with the companies: Hieronimi, Selbach, Mies
2005
Paul Faßbender leaves the management and takes over the chairmanship of the advisory board
2006
Christian Fassbender, the son of Paul and Margret Fassbender, joins the company.
2007
Acquisition of Bauzentrum Dehnhard GmbH in Zülpich
2008
Rental professionals become MIET PARTNER
2011
New branch building materials Fassbender Tenten Düsseldorf / Opening of the new OBI Market in Bonn North
2012
New branch building materials Fassbender Tenten in Königswinter
2013
Opening and completion of the Tenten Carre in Bonn North, Bornheimer Str.172
2016
New branch building materials Fassbender Tenten Cologne-Bickendorf
2017
Opening of the new building materials retailer in Cologne-Zollstock
2017
Acquisition of Haendel Baustoffe GmbH in Düsseldorf
01.11.2017
Sudden death of Thomas Fassbender
2018
New branch building materials Fassbender Tenten Düsseldorf -Heerdt
2019
Opening of the new building materials branch Fassbender Tenten Düsseldorf -Lierenfeld (Baustoffarena) with over 11,000 m² of fully covered storage space
