Aldersbach brewery
| Aldersbach Brewery Freiherr von Aretin | |
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1268 |
| Seat | Aldersbach , Germany |
| management | G. Adam Freiherr von Aretin |
| Number of employees | 90 |
| sales | 9.63 million euros |
| Branch | brewery |
| Website | www.aldersbacher.de |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
The Aldersbach brewery is a traditional medium- sized brewery in Klosterwinkel in Lower Bavaria . The annual output (beer and non-alcoholic drinks) is around 90,000 hectoliters.
history
The origins of the Aldersbach brewery go back to the High Middle Ages. In 1146, monks from the Frankish Ebrach the Cistercian - Kloster Aldersbach . In a short time the place grew into an economic, cultural, spiritual and spiritual center.
Soon after the monastery was founded, the monks started brewing beer. As early as 1268, the brewery was documented in an arbitration letter from Count Albert von Hals. This makes the Aldersbach brewery one of the oldest breweries in the world. Nevertheless, the main drink until the 16th century was wine, which was also grown in the area around Aldersbach . Climate changes and phylloxera disasters put an end to viticulture and beer became the main and popular drink in Bavaria. Until then, the monastery breweries were primarily responsible for the production of beer and supplying the population, but from this point onwards, castle breweries were established in many places, some of which still exist today.
In the 17th century there was government intervention in the brewing rights. Even Aldersbach had to fear for his brewing justice, since the corresponding certificate was lost in the Thirty Years' War . In 1644, the monastery was re-confirmed by Elector Maximilian I. The increasing consumption of beer made it necessary to build a new brewhouse in 1734. The brewery museum is housed in this building today. In 1780 a new beer cellar was built.
The secularization hit Aldersbach hard: in 1803 the monastery was dissolved and the brewery was initially sold to a beer brewer from Passau. A few years later, in 1811, Johann Adam von Aretin acquired the monastery brewery; as early as 1806 he had bought forest and arable land around Haidenburg Castle . The brewery is still owned by the family to this day.
In the course of the 19th century many smaller breweries in the area were bought up; Further acquisitions were made after the First World War and in the 1950s and 1960s, including the breweries in Gossersdorf and Konzell ( Straubing-Bogen district ) and a brewery in Lam ( Cham district ). The Aldersbach brewery, which has been run as a GmbH & Co KG since January 1, 2005, is still owned by the von Aretin family and is one of the most successful breweries in Bavaria today. In the summer of 2008, large parts of the Passau Peschl brewery were bought and since then the Aldersbach brewery has been supplying the former customers of Peschl-Bräu with their beverages. The Aldersbacher Bräustüberl is particularly well-known, as you can bring your own snacks there.
In 2016 the Bavarian State Exhibition "Beer in Bavaria" took place in Aldersbach. Both the historical and the modern brewery part could be visited.
Products
(Status: 2014)
beers
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Soft drinks
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Awards
- 2016: Golden beer idea of the Bavarian Brewers Association and the Bavarian Hotel and Restaurant Association together with the House of Bavarian History for the Bavarian State Beer Exhibition 2016
Web links
literature
- Georg Lechner: Lechner's list . Traditional breweries in Germany. 1st edition. Oelde 2008, p. 18 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b aldersbacher.de: Imprint
- ↑ a b Annual financial statements for the 2017 financial year. BRAUEREI ALDERSBACH Frhr. v. Aretin GmbH & Co.KG. In: Bundesanzeiger , October 9, 2018, accessed on March 12, 2019.
- ↑ Kannacher, V .: Aldersbach - Church, Monastery and Brewery, Waldkirchen 2004
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ "Beer in Bavaria" state exhibition open to the public. (No longer available online.) Br.de, April 29, 2016, archived from the original on October 31, 2016 ; accessed on October 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Golden Beer Idea - Laureate 1999-2017 Bavarian Brewers Association.
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 14 ″ N , 13 ° 5 ′ 10 ″ E