the industrialization of the 19th century and the great splintering of land ownership by inheritances that were endlessly carving plots into smaller ones brought about the community's first structural shift from purely a farming village to a workers’ village. a man from glattbach, a tailor named johann desch born in 1848, while in his shop hit on the idea of sewing suits by standard measurements ahead of time and having the sewing done by workers in their homes. these first ready-to-wear suits sold briskly in the growing industrial towns of hanau, frankfurt and offenbach. the business quickly swelled, and johann desch bought a house in aschaffenburg. in 1874, he had the first men's clothing factory entered into the town's commercial registry. this branch of industry in the aschaffenburg area that was once so important had its cradle in that tailor's shop in glattbach.