Brewery Museum Dortmund

Entrance area of ​​the Dortmund Brewery Museum

Founded in 1981, the Dortmund Brewery Museum was opened on November 12 of the following year on the grounds of the private brewery Dortmunder Kronen . The museum arose from the initiative of Heiner Brand, owner of the private brewery Dortmunder Kronen.

The museum from 1982 to 2000

The museum was conceived as a teaching museum of the beer brewery and presented its exhibits on an exhibition area of ​​1600 m². It was set up in the former Schalander building and in a storage cellar of the Kronen brewery. The brewery took over the operating costs, while the city of Dortmund , supported by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe , provided the financial means for setting up the exhibition and took over the scientific supervision.

After the acquisition of the Kronen Brewery by the Dortmund Actien Brewery in 1996, the museum soon found itself in an isolated island location. The previously considerable number of visitors fell drastically as a result of the closure of the brewery and the extensive construction work on the surrounding area. In 2000 the museum, whose holdings had already become the property of the city, had to be closed.

The museum since 2006

In 2006, the museum was reopened with a new concept on the grounds of the Dortmund Hansa brewery, now the Dortmunder Actien brewery , in the north of the city. The museum is housed in the historic machine house from 1912 and in an adjacent machine hall from 1968. The machine house and the neighboring brewhouse were built according to plans by the architect Emil Moog .

The exhibition

Krupp truck

In contrast to the concept of the teaching museum at the old location, the focus is now on the history of the Dortmund breweries. The new exhibition concentrates on the 19th and 20th centuries with a special focus on the so-called “golden years” of Dortmund's brewing industry from 1950–1970.

The tour begins in the historic machine house, which, as the brewery's former energy center, features a steam and refrigeration machine as well as an electricity generator. Other units in the exhibition include beer consumption - represented by a restaurant from the 1930s - beer advertising, bottling and keg filling, export and transport. The latter is presented by a Krupp lorry from 1922. In the basement, the units for the actual production are connected, starting with the raw materials up to the storage cellar and bottling. It concludes with a unit on pre-industrial and medieval brewing history.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the local soccer club Borussia Dortmund , the museum presented the special exhibition “BVB and the Dortmund breweries” in 2009. As part of RUHR.2010 a special exhibition devoted to the newly opened Dortmunder U .

Others

The brewhouse and administration building of the former Hansa brewery in Dortmund are listed as architectural monuments in the monuments list of the city of Dortmund .

see also: Dortmund export

literature

• Heinrich Tappe: New special exhibition in the Dortmund Brewery Museum: "Eating outside the home. From restaurants and other eateries". In: Society for the History of Brewing eV [GGB] (Hrsg.): GGB-Jahrbuch 2017, p. 271
• Heinrich Tappe (Ed.): Exhibition catalog Brauerei-Museum Dortmund , Dortmund 2006.
• Home Dortmund. Journal of the historical association for Dortmund and the county Mark, issue 3 (2003): Beer. On the history of the Dortmund breweries.
• Emil Moog: Buildings and mechanical systems in breweries. Planned and built by Emil Moog. Engineer - architect Dortmund , Düsseldorf 1927.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Günther Böhler u. a .: 10 years Brewery Museum Dortmund 1981-1991 , Dortmund 1991.
2. ↑ "The BVB and the Dortmund breweries" , report on the exhibition by the Ruhr-Nachrichten from November 2, 2009
3. ↑ The Union Brewery and the Dortmund "U-Tower" ( Memento from December 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), April 24 - December 31, 2010, description of the exhibition by the brewery museum
4. ↑ No. A 0256. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 10, 2014 (size: 180 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

Commons : Brauereimuseum Dortmund  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Brewery Museum Dortmund
• Dortmund beer culture
• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~6~10639

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 46.5 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 1.6 ″  E