Binding brewery
| Binding Brewery AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1870 |
| Seat |
Frankfurt am Main , Germany
|
| management | Otto J. Völker |
| Branch | Radeberger Group's brewery |
| Website | www.binding.de |
| Status: 2020 | |
The Binding Brauerei AG is a brewery in Frankfurt .
history
The founder, Conrad Binding, was a cooper and beer brewer who in 1870 acquired a small brewery in Frankfurt's old town, which he relocated to the Sachsenhausen hill on Darmstädter Landstrasse in 1881 . He built a new, modern brewery there, which he converted into a stock company in 1884 .
After the Actien brewery Homburg vd Höhe was transferred to the Binding brewery in 1919 , it merged in 1921 with the Hofbierbrauerei Schöfferhof from Mainz and the Frankfurt Bürgerbrauerei to form Schöfferhof-Binding-Bürgerbräu AG . In 1939, the first barrel of the “Römer Pils” brand , which is still known today, was tapped. 70 percent of the brewery was destroyed by an air raid in World War II.
The brewery has been part of the Oetker Group since 1953 .
The brewhouse, built at the end of the 1950s, with the large glass windows behind which the five copper brew kettles are clearly visible, is the most striking building in the brewery today.
Until 1985, across the street from the brewhouse, there was the Binding malt house, which produced its own brewing malt until the 1970s. This large brick building was largely from the 19th century, with an extension from the 1950s. A large iron ventilation hood with the lettering BINDING, which turned with the wind, was visible from afar.
Today the brewery is the largest brewery in Hesse and employs around 500 people on the approximately 56,000 m² company premises in Frankfurt.
A well-known trademark is a stylized eagle, as the city of Frankfurt am Main also has an eagle in its coat of arms . In the 1960s, Binding used the advertising characters Schorsch and Schaa , two people from Frankfurt who drink beer and babble in dialect .
In 2001 the domestic and foreign distribution rights of the neighboring Henninger brewery were taken over. The Binding-Brauerei AG group has been operating as the Radeberger Group since 2002 , to which large breweries such as B. the Radeberger export beer brewery and the Berliner Kindl brewery belong. With an output of around 13 million hectoliters, it is the largest brewing group in Germany.
The Binding Culture Foundation , founded in 1995 on the occasion of the brewery's 125th anniversary , has been awarding the highly endowed Binding Culture Prize since 1996 .
In the years 2008 and 2009 there were several discussions in the media about relocating the headquarters, particularly to Bad Vilbel , although the traditional headquarters have been retained to this day.
Acquired companies
The brewery has expanded rapidly in Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Baden since the 1960s. Numerous breweries, some with acute economic problems, were taken over and in most cases closed immediately. Two of today's brand names (Schöfferhofer, Clausthaler) come from these breweries. This development was provisionally completed with the takeover of the brand and distribution rights of the other large Frankfurt brewery, the neighboring Henninger brewery .
- Union Brewery Groß-Gerau (closed in 1967)
- Engelbräu Heidelberg (closed in 1967)
- Schrempp-Printz Brewery Karlsruhe (closed 1970)
- Heinrich Fels Brewery Karlsruhe (closed in 1971)
- Brewery Schöfferhof Mainz (closed 1971)
- Engelhardt Brewery Bad Hersfeld (closed 1973)
- Germania Brewery Wiesbaden (taken over by Henninger in 1972, closed in 1973)
- Orange Brewery Dillenburg (closed 1974)
- Nicolay Hanau Brewery (closed 1974)
- Bayerische Aktien-Bierbrauerei Aschaffenburg (closed 1975)
- Society brewery Homberg / Efze (closed 1976)
- Schwanenbräu Groß-Umstadt (closed 1976)
- Schwanenbrauerei Kleinschmitt Schwetzingen (closed 1978)
- Caspary Brewery , Trier (taken over in 1978, closed in 1983)
- Municipal brewery Clausthal (closed 1978)
- Guntrum-Bräu Bensheim (closed 1979)
- Aktienbrauerei Ludwigshafen (closed 1979)
- Murgtal Brewery Degler Gaggenau (closed 1982)
- Fecher-Bräu Seligenstadt (closed 1983)
- Mainzer Aktien-Bierbrauerei (taken over in 1969, closed in 1983)
- Northeim Municipal Brewery (closed in 1984)
- Frankfurter Brauhaus AG (closed 1987)
- Prinz-Bräu, vorm. Steinhäusser Friedberg Brewery / Hessen (n / a)
- Habereckl Brewery Mannheim (closed 1993)
- Bavarian brewery Schuck-Jaenisch Kaiserslautern (closed 1993)
- Herkules-Brauerei Kassel and its Schöfferhof brand (taken over in 1972, closed in 1999)
- Brauhaus J. Wörner Erbach (taken over in 1988, closed in 2006)
- Henninger-Bräu (taken over / closed 2001/2002)
Products
- Binding eagle pils
- Binding export
- Binding Export Private (for gastronomy)
- Binding stock
- Binding Roman Pils
- Brewmaster's power malt
- Carolus Doppelbock (available from September to March)
- Clausthaler Classic alcohol-free
- Clausthaler Extra Herb alcohol-free
- Clausthaler Radler alcohol-free
- Henninger Export
- Henninger Kaiser Pilsner
- Henninger Radler
- Schöfferhofer Weizen - wheat beer , available as light and dark yeast wheat, crystal wheat and non-alcoholic yeast wheat as well as a mixed beer drink with grapefruit, prickly pear, pear-ginger (until 2015), wheat sprizz (bitter orange) since 2012 and lemon and pomegranate since 2014 + Guarana.
- Habereckl Märzen
See also
literature
- Elmar Wolfart (Ed.): Conrad Binding 1846-1933 . Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001
- Vinz de Rouet: I love Sachsenhausen! 33 reasons to love Sachsenhausen. Berlin 2010
Web links
- Website binding.de
- Literature on Binding Brewery in the Hessian Bibliography
- Reconstruction of the Binding brewery in the post-war period ( Memento from April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Binding brewery at the beer index
- Beer mats from Binding in the Colnect catalog
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Schöfferhof-Binding-Brauerei AG in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ DPMAregister | Trademarks - register information. Retrieved August 21, 2017 .
- ↑ DPMAregister | Trademarks - register information. Retrieved August 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Radeberger: Large investment no longer justifiable , at www.faz.net , accessed on August 30, 2018
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 40.9 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 27.8 ″ E