Actien-Brauerei Homburg vd Höhe
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The Actien-Brauerei Homburg vd Höhe vorm. A, Messerschmitt was the largest brewery in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe until 1919 and became part of the Binding brewery . The listed brewery tower has been renovated in an exemplary manner.
history
In 1865 there were seven breweries in Homburg . One of them was the brewery founded by Karl Nagel in the 1840s. The Nagel family operated several breweries in Homburg. In 1878 Heinrich Nagel and Karl Nagel's breweries were still in operation on Dorotheenstrasse. The parent company, the “Stadt Friedberg” inn with an attached brewery, had become the property of Friedrich Gehrings after several changes of ownership. Adam Messerschmitt bought this brewery in 1880. It was converted into a stock corporation in 1888 and now traded as Actien-Brauerei Homburg vd Höhe vorm. A, Messerschmitt .
Adam Messerschmitt continued to run the hall at Louisenstrasse 95. There were beer delivery rights for 5 Frankfurt restaurants. In addition, many restaurants in the Taunus were supplied.
The beer industry was subject to a strong process of concentration. Of the seven breweries, five still existed in 1886 and two in 1898. From 1912 the Actien brewery was the only brewery in Homburg. 50 to 60 people were employed there.
In 1919 the Actien brewery merged with the Binding brewery.
boycott
In 1893 Adam Messerschmitt made the beer hall and gym of the “Stadt Friedberg” inn available to the SPD Homburg for their meetings. After Messerschmitt's death, the new director refused to continue offering the hall. The SPD then called on May 1, 1895 to boycott the brewery. However, the measure was discontinued in September 1896 without success.
Products
The Actien brewery had two main beers: the “Taunus-Gold”, a “golden light beer with a vinous aroma” and the dark “Taunus-Bräu”, a “fully adequate substitute for the more expensive Munich beer” (quotations from an advertisement from the Year 1912).
The brewery tower
The “Stadt Friedberg” inn at Höhestrasse 20 / Castillostrasse 1 was expanded with a brick tower with battlements and a glockenspiel in the “medieval castle style”. In its justification for the appointment as a cultural monument, the monument protection office writes about the building that “the functional architecture of industrial companies is reshaped in the sense of romantic historicism. Thus, among other things, their existence as a foreign body in the grown environment of urban spaces was legitimized historically. ”Due to its massive construction, the tower was rededicated as a shelter after the first air raid on Bad Homburg in the night of May 5 to 6, 1940 and remained undamaged. In 2011, the total renovation and conversion into living space was completed.
literature
- Gerta Walsh: Chimneys in the spa town, 1993, ISBN 3-7829-0443-5 , page 73-75
- Heinz Grosche: History of the city of Bad Homburg before the height / ed. from the city council of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe; Part 3. Die Kaiserzeit, 1986, ISBN 3-7829-0334-X , pages 482-483
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Tower Castillostrasse 1a In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 54.9 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 45.3 ″ E