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Former administrative building of the Scheele brewery in the style of brick expressionism

The Anderter Brewery (also: Brauerei Scheele or Scheelesche Brauerei ) in Hanover was founded at the beginning of the 18th century and was one of the oldest breweries in the Lower Saxony state capital. The company was located on the site between the (today's) streets Am Tiergarten , Oisseler Straße and An der Brauerei in the Anderten district , where, among other things, an administrative building built by Fritz Höger and protected as a historical monument has been preserved.

history

Beginnings from 1727

The free farmers of the old village of Anderten - they belonged to the so-called “ Great Free ” - had a special privilege in the late Middle Ages : the right to brew . The individual owners of the Andertens farm in turn exercised this special right to produce beer . In 1727 the brewing authorities obtained a permit to build their own community brewery. They built it on the (today's) street Am Tiergarten at the place of "two strong water-bearing springs " (at the place of today's building Am Tiergarten 4 ), which should serve as a fountain of the brewery. Since then, the farmers have been able to brew their beer there, and they determined the order by lottery .

This approach had a decisive disadvantage: every farmer brewed his own beer; it was not possible to develop a uniform taste and thus also no brands of their own . The quality of the brews differed too much . Back then, the farmers only rarely made their beers with non-fermented yeast , for the fermentation of which an ambient temperature of 9 to 12 degrees had to be maintained. Instead, they mainly produced with top-fermenting yeast . This older form of brewer's yeast required an ambient temperature of 15 to 20 degrees for fermentation - a great advantage at the time when there were no refrigerants or even refrigerators were invented. In addition, this fermentation process took much less time. After fermentation , the yeast foam could also be easily skimmed off the surface of the green beer . On the other hand, however, constant ambient temperatures were not always available, and the yeast variety was often contaminated with foreign fungi or with undesirable bacteria . If the farmers failed the beer again, it was hers at the same time

" Hops and malt lost."

Despite the later hiring of a master brewer , there were repeated disagreements between the farmers entitled to brew.

On June 26, 1818, a good 90 years after the construction of the community brewery , the farmers leased the building to the Hanover-based master brewer Heinrich Scheele . Both the quality and the quantity of the beer increased: Scheele produced a consistently tasting bitter beer similar to English ale .

Ice pond and ice cellar from 1850

Eisteichweg and Wartheweg

After another three decades, Heinrich Scheele built an ice pond in 1850 (on today's Wartheweg ) in order to extract natural ice from there as a coolant : in winter, ice floes were sawed out of the pond and chopped up, pulled out with special hook bars and then put into the pond with horses and carriages transported to different ice cellars . The ice cellar, which is still present today in Sehnder Strasse , was used for this until 1885 , followed by the (above-ground) ice cellar in Strasse An der Brewery . Together they contained around 20,000 quintals of ice. In the Weimar Republic , from 1924 onwards, the ice could be transported to the first floor of the ice cellar by an elevator . Heinrich Scheele's heirs had already greatly expanded the brewery in the 19th century; Not least because of the good Anderter water quality , the company had developed into a modern large brewery at the time.

Dismantling from 1914

After the outbreak of the First World War , many employees of the brewery had to serve as soldiers on the war front and were no longer available for beer production. For war purposes, the gray molds , which until then had been the driving force for the carriage fleet , were also forcibly drawn in . Finally, in 1917, beer production was completely stopped - especially since the earlier consumers mostly served at the front and died. After production ceased, all of the brewery's precious metals were dismantled and melted down for the armaments industry .

Beginning again in the Weimar Republic from 1919

Coat of arms of the brewery with the initials "HSA" for Hermann Scheele, Anderten; Gambrinus sitting on a beer barrel with a crown and a beer mug

After the First World War, HE Scheele took over the "completely demolished brewery" in 1919, but was not able to restart beer production until 1920. First a new well had to be dug, as the sources of the old well were impaired by the construction of the Mittelland Canal, which had meanwhile been carried out nearby .

Finally, beer output rose continuously again in the Weimar Republic : In 1927, the brewery built a machine house and its own administration building for the company's 200th anniversary (at today's address Am Tiergarten 2 , a listed building ).

Closures in 1939 and 1955

During the Second World War , the Scheelesche Brewery was shut down again, for reasons similar to the previous war. However, the following air raids on Hanover spared at least parts of the former large brewery.

In the years of reconstruction , after Heinrich Scheele's death in 1955, there was no suitable successor in the entrepreneur's family, and so the brewery was sold - as part of a consortium - to the Härke brewery , among others . In 1956 the Herrenhausen Brewery took over shares in the "Scheele Brewery" under the leadership of Ernst W. Middendorff - as a result, beer production in Anderten was stopped.

Demolition, monument preservation and coat of arms

After the demolition of the now redundant ice cellar and its outbuildings of the brewery in 1980 and 1981, the administrative building on the corner of Am Tiergarten 2 at the corner of Oisseler Straße , which is now protected by the Office for the Preservation of Monuments , was preserved. The coat of arms of the former brewery with the initials of the master brewer Heinrich Scheele can also be found on the facade of the building . In addition, the small street An der Brauerei is reminiscent of the Scheele brewery , which was paved with the old cobblestones until 2016 .

At the Tiergarten 2

At the (today's) address Am Tiergarten 2 , the architect Fritz Höger built an administrative building for the Scheelesche Brewery in the style of clinker expressionism in 1927, which is now a listed building. The building is a two-storey clinker brick building , the main facade of which is oriented towards the street Am Tiergarten . A broad central projection under the stepped gable emphasizes the center of the building. On the southeast side of the stand-alone building, an arcade with three pointed arches forms a vestibule to the main portal . Today (as of December 2015) the building is used as an office building.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Anderten Brewery (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Katrin Lehmann-Pilarski (1st chairperson, responsible according to § 10 paragraph 3 MDStV ): The brewery on the side of the advertising community for other business people and surroundings u. U. eV (WAG u. U. eV), last accessed on 23 August 2012
  • preetz1947 (seller): Greetings from Anderten, School, Brewery 60192 , offer a 1905 transported postcard on ebay .com, last accessed on 23 August 2012
  • Klaus Ehm: Beer coasters and miscellaneous , collection and brief information about the brewery, last accessed on August 30, 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anderter Brewery - Brewery Scheele (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b Rudolf Cyperrek, based on preliminary archival work by Helmut Millies: 100 years of mansions , ed. von der Brauerei Herrenhausen GmbH, Hanover-Herrenhausen, Wiesbaden: Verlag für Wirtschaftspublizistik, 1968, here: pp. 38–44
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Wolfgang Neß: Misburg-Anderten (see literature)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Katrin Lehmann-Pilarski (1st chairperson, responsible according to § 10 paragraph 3 MDStV): The brewery (see web links)
  5. ↑ a b c d Florian Heinze, Frank-Holger Lange, Hannah Freifrau von Senden, Volker Heinze: Our office building ( memento from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), subpage of the law firm HEINZE LANGE v. SEND Lawyers Partnership , last accessed on July 26, 2019
  6. ^ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer : 1727 , in: Hannover Chronik , p. 83, partly online via Google books
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h Lorenz Kurz: Anderten Gestern. How did changed become what it is today? (see literature)
  8. ↑ a b Michael Zgoll: Anderten / This is how it looked around 60 years ago in the old town center (see literature)
  9. ↑ Christian Schulz-Hausbrandt, Holger Bock (Managing Director): 1956 , on: Chronicle , subpage of Privatbrauerei Herrenhausen GmbH, last accessed on July 26, 2019

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '48.6 "  N , 9 ° 51' 25.1"  E