Beckh Brewery

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The Beckh brewery was the "largest and oldest brewery in Pforzheim ". The brewery existed from 1861 to 1983. The brewery is also known as the House and Office of the Beckh Brothers Brewery in Pforzheim and was made public in the USA in 1904 under this name .

history

The business was run by four generations of the Beckh family:

The beer brewer and coopers Christoph Beckh (1828–1885) from Wilferdingen leased the Ungerer brewery located in Pforzheim at Westliche Karl-Friedrich-Strasse 47. Around 1861 he acquired a building on Markt 4 which he expanded into his new brewery.

After the company's founder's death in 1885, the company's sons, Adolf and Christoph, continued to run the business. In 1904 the Beckh brothers opened the “Zum Beckh” tavern, the main bar of the Beckh brewery, on Marktplatz 4. For the renovation, they had designs supplied by the Pforzheim architect Ernst Maler and the Karlsruhe architect Hermann Billing .

In 1923 the grandchildren of the company founder (Adolf Beckh and Christoph Beckh) converted the brewery, which was run as a general partnership , into a family stock corporation . The brewery was expanded into one of the most modern breweries in Baden in the 1930s. Christoph Beckh, a doctor of law and grandson of the company founder Christoph Beckh, died as a German prisoner of war in Russia. The other grandson of the company founder, the qualified brewer Adolph Beckh, was killed in the air raid on Pforzheim on February 23, 1945 .

The management was then taken over by Christoph Beckh's son-in-law, Walther Saacke. He converted the company into a GmbH in 1973 . After the Dinkelacker brewery took over the majority of the AG in 1982 , the Pforzheimer Beckh GmbH brewery at Westliche Karl-Friedrich-Strasse 184 was closed. The brewery buildings between Maximilianstrasse and Westliche Karl-Friedrich-Strasse were demolished in 1986.

literature

  • Aloys Stolz: History of the City of Pforzheim , Pforzheim 1901

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baden-Württemberg Economic Archive, wabw.uni-hohenheim.de
  2. ^ House and Office of the Brothers Beckh Brewery in Pforzheim, Baden, Germany. Prof. H. Billing, Architect . In: The American Architect and Building News , October 2, 1904, no. 1507
  3. ^ "Deutsche Bauzeitung" from 1904 (Volume 38) No. 85
  4. ↑ The architecture of the XX. Century - magazine for modern architecture , volume 5, plate 54.
  5. ^ House and Office of the Brothers Beckh Brewery in Pforzheim, Baden, Germany. Prof. H. Billing, Architect . In: The American Architect and Building News , October 2, 1904, no. 1507
  6. ^ Munich, Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich, inventory no. bill-80-1, 932734, old inventory no. 80.1