Bärenquell Brewery
The Bärenquell Brewery was until its closure on April 1, 1994, a brewery in Berlin district of Niederschöneweide of Treptow-Koepenick .
history
The complex on today's Schnellerstrasse, in the immediate vicinity of the historic Neuer Krug excursion restaurant , was created as the Borussia brewery , which was founded by Max Meinert and master brewer Alex Kampshenkel in 1882.
In 1898 the Borussia brewery was bought up by the Schultheiss-Brauerei AG, which continued and expanded the location as the Schultheiss Brewery, Department IV . In addition to the narrow area between the Spree and what was then Berliner Straße (now Schnellerstraße), another property was acquired in a north-westerly direction. The task of the location in the Schultheiss network was to supply the area around Berlin. In 1949 the name was changed to the Schultheiss Brewery Niederschöneweide , and in 1954 it was finally renamed VEB Schultheiss Brewery Niederschöneweide . On the basis of a magistrate's resolution of March 26, 1959, the six East Berlin breweries were dissolved as legal entities with effect from April 1, 1959. The VEB Berlin Breweries took their place with the same effect and thus became the legal successor. The production facility in Niederschöneweide was renamed the Bärenquell Brewery .
After the end of the GDR, the Treuhandanstalt took over the state-owned company in 1990 and privatized it as Bärenquell Brauerei Berlin GmbH with the product Bärenquell Berliner Pilsener Spezial. In 1991 Henninger Bräu AG from Hesse finally acquired the brand and initially continued production at the Niederschöneweide location. In 1993, Henninger Bräu AG submitted a building application for which some historical buildings should have given way, which was rejected by the Treptow district office with reference to the protection of monuments. On April 1, 1994, beer production was finally completely stopped. Only Henninger's sales department remained at the location for a few years. Bärenquell continued to produce beer in Kassel , where the subtitle Berliner Pilsener Spezial replaced the word “Berliner” with “Original”.
After Henninger got increasingly into financial problems and was ultimately taken over by his Hessian competitor Binding-Brauerei , the rights to Bärenquell were sold to the Brauhaus Preußen Pils GmbH in Pritzwalk . It produced it there as a further brand alongside the house brand Preußen Pils . The Oettinger Brewery bought Preußen Pils GmbH in 2006 and stopped production in Pritzwalk at the end of 2008, so that Bärenquell brand beer has not been produced since 2009.
architecture
Robert Buntzel , Emil Holland and Hans Otto Obrikat were the main architects and builders who worked on the site, which has been a listed building since the 1980s . Most of the buildings on the site date from this time, while only two buildings of the actual Borussia brewery have survived, the civil servants' residence (1882), once the home of the master brewer and other servants, and the administration building (1888), the seat of the director. The latter two are threatened with demolition in plans for the site.
The brewery complex at Schnellerstraße 137 includes in detail, among other things
- the official residence (1882), brick building with accentuated central resalit, by Robert Buntzel
- the administration building (1888), in the neo-renaissance style with tower top, by Robert Buntzel
- the bottle storage building (1901), with a historicizing neo-Gothic boundary wall, by Hans Otto Obrikat
- the barrel factory and barrel wood warehouse (1902), elongated neo-Gothic wing building facing the street, by Hans Otto Obrikat
- the brewery and machine house (1906), central brewery building as a four-storey middle building in neo-Gothic style with a castle-like appearance, by Hans Otto Obrikat
- the horse stable with water tower (1910), in neo-Gothic style, by Hans Otto Obrikat
- the bottled beer cellar with loading station (1914)
- the warehouse (1920)
- the workshop building (1927), in the style of expressionism
- the house (1927)
- the beer warehouse with cooling tower (1928), in the style of Expressionism
- the new brewhouse (1969), built in place of the former boiler house in the style of international modernism.
Administration building and official residence
Barrel factory
Machine house
Former horse stable with inspection
Beer warehouse with cooling tower
State and planning
A development plan procedure for the establishment of a hardware store took place until 2013. Several buildings, like the one on the street front on Schnellerstraße from the years 1882 to 1902, were to be released from monument protection and demolished in favor of a new building. Only the machine and brewhouse as well as the beer warehouse with cooling tower on the southeast side of the complex were to be preserved. After another change of ownership, the previous planning work is no longer necessary. The new owner should present a new usage concept to the district in 2015. Apparently that did not happen, instead there was another sale of the space.
Instead of maintenance and repairs, vandalism, arson and theft contributed to the decay of the buildings. Most of the copper cables, many duct covers and other things were stolen by metal thieves .
In 2017, the Bärenquell area is owned by a property company of a capital management group, which wants to undertake bridge financing for the development of the area in the amount of 5.5 million euros . The Berlin project developer has already commissioned various teams of architects with preliminary planning for the development options and will present them to the public “in due course”. At present, short-term interim uses are being considered, possibly with partial lifting of the monument protection.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kampshenkel, Alex . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, part 1, p. 700.
- ↑ Obrikat, HO In: Address Book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, Part 1, S. 1118. "Architect and master builder, [and] sworn Kreistaxator".
- ↑ Former Bärenquell brewery - re-use open again on sanierungsgebiet-niederschoeneweide.de; Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ↑ Industrial ruin has new owner , July 2017, accessed on November 4, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '36 " N , 13 ° 30' 23.3" E