kg from wangen im allg u written noch by the company is a manufacturer and importer of accessories for model trains especially for building landscapes . it makes products for all common sizes of model trains . history edit the company was founded in 1911 by oswald noch in glauchau in saxony germany . because of the political reprisals and the nationalisation of the east german government at the time the son of the company s founder erich noch saw no chance to expand his workshop . in 1957 he risked the move to the west . leaving all of his assets and property behind he began first in munich and then in 1961 in allg u to set up a new business . supported by his family the company grew very quickly in the 1960s and 1970s . soon his son peter noch took over management of production and father and son together led the company to success . in 1978 the private company was converted to a gmbh & co. kg limited partnership company . after the death of the senior manager erich noch in october 1989 peter noch lead the company as the sole business manager . dr. rainer noch the son of peter noch and thus the fourth generation of the noch family has worked in the company since 1994 . father and son lead the company together until the death of peter noch in september 1997 . noch at the international toy fair nuremberg 2016 product range edit noch is the german distributor for athearn and kato products . noch is well known for a large range of materials for building landscapes ready made terrain of synthetic materials . many noch products are designed for use with m rklin fleischmann model railroads kato and trix trains . noch offers over 1000 products for the model railway hobby including a vast selection of high quality landscaping materials and accessories . ziterdes is a noch line that offers dedicated gamers the tools and terrain pieces to create their wargaming miniature environments hybrid scenery ; urban ruins with war torn buildings ; gaming table formats for alien war games ; gaming forests and catacombs for dungeons and dragons miniatures ; or a pirate theme . ziterdes modular gaming tables mgts can be detailed with scenic elements and combined with additional mgts to develop the battlefield for warhammer 40 000 alien gaming or wargame miniatures battlefield for urban mammoth example . external links edit www.noch.com north american distributor north american ziterdes gaming website this article related to a manufacturing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this model rail related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title noch model railroads & oldid 714300718 categories model railroad manufacturerstoy train manufacturersmanufacturing company stubsmodel rail stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschsuomi edit links this page was last modified on 8 april 2016 at 22 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view