Waechtersbach USA, Inc. proudly announces that Kanitz Porzellan has acquired its German parent company, Waechtersbach Keramik as of September 2006 from the royal Ysenburg family.  The new Kanitz parent company has been in the porcelain industry since 1909 and is one of the best German manufacturers of high quality coffee, tea, and cocoa mugs as well as espresso and cappuccino cups. The company was privatized in 1994 and purchased by its current owner, Turpin Rosenthal, the grandson of the legendary porcelain master Phillip Rosenthal.

Waechtersbach has been producing quality earthenware since 1832, and is internationally known as a trend setter in the fine dinnerware marketplace. There is more to Waechtersbach than dinnerware. Waechtersbach offers a wide variety of earthenware cups, bowls, and plates for special occasions or for everyday use. Waechtersbach even offers fun dishes for your favorite pet.

In addition to the factory, there is a castle that has been the home of the royal Ysenburg and Budingen Family for more that 700 years. You will see frescoes, tapestries, and furniture from medieval and renaissance times, as well as china from various centuries. The Buedingen Castle looks back on 800 years of history. The fortifications originate from a moated castle built in the times of the Staufen emperors. For more than 700 years now it has been seat of one family: the lords and counts, now princes of Ysenburg and Buedingen.

During the 18th century a family branch in its own right occupied Buedingen Castle. In the 19th century, the members of the families of Ysenburg-Buedingen and Ysenburg-Waechtersbach were granted princely status.

In 1941 Prince Otto Friedrich of the Waechtersbach branch came into the Buedingen property by inheritance.

The 166 year existence of the Waechtersbach Ceramic factory is a special obligation to the young management, to safely steer the business through the next decades.