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THE BIRTH OF A LEGEND
1774
Johann Adam Birkenstock is listed in the church archives of Langen-Bergheim, a city in the German state of Hesse, as a "subject and cobbler".
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THE FOOTBED TAKES ITS FIRST STEPS
1896
Master cobbler Konrad Birkenstock, who runs two specialty shoe stores in Frankfurt, begins manufacturing and selling flexible footbed insoles.
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