Haldensleben mountain castle brewery

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Malthouse of the former Bergschloß brewery

The Bergschloß Brewery was a beer brewery in the town of Haldensleben in Saxony-Anhalt . The partially preserved building of the malt house is a listed building .

brewery

The brewery was founded in 1872 as the Behrens, Schlüter & Co. brewery. On June 28, 1886, the brewery was taken over by the Bergschloß-Aktien-Brauerei "Magdeburg" , which went into liquidation on April 9, 1921, with production shutdown . In the course of the liquidation process, which lasted until at least 1932 , the capital was converted from 1.2 million marks to 192,000 Reichsmarks , at that time the share capital was majority owned by Vulkan-Werke AG for brewery requirements in Berlin and its chairman, Gustav Katzenstein .

Architecture and history

The remains of the brewery complex are on the Bornsche Straße 81 property, north of the city center on a hill. Part of the malting was preserved . This building, built in 1872 in the founding years after the Franco-German War , is designed in the form of a donjon . The castle-like character of the five- or five-and-a-half-story brick building is reinforced by small corner towers and attached battlements . Two round exhaust air chimneys, as essential elements of the malting operation, crown the building. The facade is structured by decorative friezes and the use of different colored bricks. Some of the bricks form ornaments .

In 2010 the remaining building was empty. A building permit for a change of use for residential purposes was granted in 2012.

literature

  • Handbook of German stock corporations . 30th edition 1925, part 2, p. 4123 f.
  • Handbook of German public companies 37th edition 1932, part 4, p. 6450.
  • Internationaler Brauereikultur-Verband eV (IBV) (Hrsg.): Historical brewery directory Germany of the federal states Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia from approx. 1900. Stuttgart 1995.
  • State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.), Mathias Köhler: Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 10.1, Ohrekreis (I), Altkreis Haldensleben. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-86568-011-9 , page 111.

Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 2.1 ″  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 13.9 ″  E