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1944: |
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HEIMOTIONS history goes back to the year 1944. First moving figures and window decorations are made at this time. |
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1951: |
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Mechanical movable puppets and deco- rations for show cases become popular and sought after products. The company move from eastern to western Germany. |
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1959: |
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The management decide to buy an old manufactory for electrical equipment in picturesque Jagsthausen. The whole production is moved to Jagsthausen the same year. |
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1961: |
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In Jagsthausen, the first Fairy- Tale-Garden is established;. Showing ensembles of different statuettes in corresponding decoractions and having special space for playing and resting this garden becomes the prototype of the large leisure-parks of the future. |
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1982: |
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The company prospers and employs more than 50 people. Leisure parks develop like mushrooms and all of them demand products. Historic characters, prehistoric animals, Midgets/manikins are manufactured. |
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1987: |
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Giganto is delivered. World’s biggest, transportable, animated statuette. It features computer controlled movement and is 17 meters high. Giganto is an eye catcher on fairs to this day. |
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1995: |
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Computers are introduced in big style. The design department equipped with a large MacIntosh environment. Most modern CAD-systems support development and construction of mechanical components. |
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2000: |
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Expo 2000 in Hannover. In the German pavilion visitors are fascinated by Visionscape a futuristique installation. |
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2011: |
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The Heimotion GmbH takes over the Heimo aaM GmbH & Co. KG. |
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2015: |
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Heimotion has built the world biggest piggy bank for Sparkasse Ludwigsburg. 2017 the piggiy bank entered into the Guinness Book of Records. |
