What started as a humble carpenter’s shop is today, a 100 years on, a 250 person strong company, renowned across Europe as the premiere provider of luxury timber homes.
 

Baufritz was founded in 1896 by Sylvester Fritz. Set up as a firm of carpenters we built roof constructions, churches and agricultural buildings then started to build our first timber houses in the 1930s.
 

Under Hubert Fritz, Sylvester Fritz’s grandson, Baufritz built the first ecological houses at the end of the 1970s. Influenced by the illness of his wife, Hubert Fritz changed the company’s direction towards environmentally friendly and healthy building; a direction we still follow very much today.

Baufritz remains a family run company, headed in its fourth generation by Dagmar Fritz-Kramer, Entrepreneur of the Year 2008, who has introduced a new generation of architecturally modern and individually designed ecological and healthy homes.

In 2006 she founded the British subsidiary Baufritz (UK) Ltd together with Oliver Rehm. Since then Baufritz has built around 20 individual properties in the UK while also exporting to Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Luxemburg, Belgium and Russia.

Many awards over the last decades have confirmed our exceptional company philosophy and achievements in sustainable construction, culminating in 2009 with our receiving the accolade “Germany’s most sustainable company” an award given under the patronage of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

In 2011 we still operate from Erkheim, Bavaria: a beautiful part of South Germany, but no longer from a small shop, rather a 14,000 square metre, state-of-the-art factory. Continuous research and development combined with our long experience and emphasis on only using the most energy-efficient, emission-tested materials, has resulted in ecologically perfect timber houses fit for the twenty-first century.