Our story begins with the invention in 1899
Our story begins in 1899 with Johann Korbuly. At that time, he conceived the idea for our wooden construction set. Since the conventional wooden building blocks his children played with did not allow for stable constructions, he made wooden blocks with holes and used rods as connecting elements. Later, he standardized the entire system, so that the individual parts could be combined in any form. He received a patent for the resulting wooden construction set in 1901, and two years later he began production and sales.
Every one of you can call him- or herself a MATADOR
The name MATADOR comes from the old Austrian saying "He is a matador in his field" and was intended to express the superiority of Korbuly's design. Today, MATADOR stands for the creative feats of all children who explore the world with our wooden construction sets.
For the curious there is more
You can read more about our history in a Wikipedia article or experience it at the Museum Traiskirchen.