Bender Brewery

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The brewery's float for the May market in 1955

The Bender brewery was a private brewery founded in Kaiserslautern in 1849 . The brewery was active regionally until 1963 and was continuously family-owned. Until the shutdown, the company had a beer output of 12,000 hl per year, 12 employees and 3 of its own wells.

history

The Bender brewery was founded in 1849 by the cooper Franz-Daniel Bender (1815–1881), who learned the trade of brewer from the Kaiserslautern brewer Jean Gelbert (1806–1881). At first he was the innkeeper of the inn “Zum Blaue Wagen” on the corner of Mannheimerstraße / Gaustraße, and then began brewing his own beer in 1849, which was initially only served in his housekeeping. After his death, the two sons Franz-Daniel jr. (1851–1936) and Albert (1862–1936) ran the company under the name FD Bender's Sons Brewery and Malting oHG . The brewing and malting operations as well as the housekeeping were relocated to Gaustrasse 22 opposite, the beer cellars to Haspelstrasse / corner of Vogelgesang. Shortly before the First World War, an output of 10,000 hl per year was achieved.

In 1925 the three sons of Franz-Daniel jr. worked for the company and were jointly responsible for the management from 1936, Franz-Wilhelm Bender (1891–1947) for the brewing business, Carl-Albert Bender (1898–1978) for accounting and Friedrich Bender (1899–1973) for agriculture and Vehicle fleet.

During the Second World War , the company buildings were spared serious damage, but several of the brewery's own restaurants were destroyed. In 1949, however, beer output was achieved again as in peacetime and the 100th company anniversary was celebrated. Until the war-damaged brewhouse of the Bavarian brewery Schuck-Jaenisch (called BBK) went into operation, the BBK beers were also brewed in the Bender brewery. The Bender beer brewed in Gaustrasse was initially transported to the beer cellar in Haspelstrasse by horse-drawn carts, and later by trucks, until the company was closed. In 1951 the traditional beer wagon of the brewery accompanied the parade for the German soccer champions, 1. FCK with its team captain Fritz Walter, and in 1954 again to welcome the German soccer world champions, the miracle of Bern (see section gallery), with 5 FCK players .

In 1963, together with the entry of Carl-Albert Bender's three children (4th Bender generation), Johanna vom Hagen, née Bender, Franz-Georg Bender and Fritz Bender the conversion into the Bender-Bräu KG. As the approval of a merger of the two parts of the company in Haspelstrasse, which was necessary for economic reasons, could not be obtained from the city administration, the company was initially put on hold. The Karlsberg Brewery KG was responsible for the production and sale of the Bender beers . Weber in Homburg . After the brewery building was occupied by Bender's housekeeping (most recently run by musicians from Kaiserslautern as a jazz bar called "Waschbrett") by a radical squatter scene and demolition after a spectacular eviction, the company was renamed the still dormant business, the management of its properties, again under the traditional name FD Bender's Sons ( GbR). It was finally decided to dissolve the company on December 31, 1999, and the patented naming rights for the Bender beers were transferred to the Max Bender brewery in Arnstein.

Historical witnesses in Kaiserslautern are the Bendergasse behind the former area of ​​the brewery with the housekeeping in the Gaustraße, the Bender-Linde preserved there as a natural monument , the heritage-protected parent house of the Bender family in the Gaustraße / corner of Mannheimer Straße, the property called Benderhof in the Richard -Wagner-Straße 76, and the wrought-iron pub sign Bender's Hauswirtschaft with the initials FDBS, the year 1849, the year of foundation and the brewing star , the old guild symbol of the brewers (see literature Peter Freimark and Jens Rosbach), on the gable wall of the Theodor-Zink-Museum (Stadtmuseum Kaiserslautern), where the hiking book of the company founder Franz-Daniel Bender is archived in accordance with the guild law with the entries of his wanderings throughout Europe from May 3, 1834.

gallery

  • Beer mugs 1880–1950

  • Welcoming the German soccer champions 1951, 1. FCK

  • Parade of German football champions 1951 with the city's heraldic animal

  • "Bender's Hauswirtschaft" boom with brewing star (Theodor-Zink-Museum)

  • Video "German Football World Champion 1954" float and May market

literature

  • Hans von Blohm, Fritz Schäfer: Chronicle of the wells of Kaiserslautern , Otterbach 1993
  • Johannes Straub and Willi Fallot-Burghardt: Lauter Lautrer Breweries, All about beer in Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2009 (self-published),
  • Albert Munzinger: The development of the industry of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 1921
  • Festschrift for the 100th anniversary: 100 years of FD Bender's Sons oHG Kaiserslautern 1849 - 1949
  • Peter Freimark: David shield and brewer's star. About the synonomy of a symbol. In: Yearbook of the Society for the History and Bibliography of Brewing eV 1990, Berlin 1990
  • Jens Rosbach: Symbol of the southern German brewers: Cheers, Star of David! In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , October 5, 2018, accessed on February 24, 2020
  • Ingrid Engelmann: The development of the Kaiserslautern brewery industry. In: Yearbook of the Historical Association of the City of Kaiserslautern 2009, pp. 359–396
  • Rainer Blasius: Hurray, we're still alive! Kaiserslautern after 1945, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2001

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munzinger, Albert: The development of the industry of Kaiserslautern , Kaiserslautern 1921, p. 89
  2. ↑ Schultze-Berndt, HG: Kaiserslautern, the Palatinate and beer. In: Monthly magazine for breweries, August 31, 1979, p. 348
  3. ↑ Straub, Johannes and Fallot-Burghardt, Willi: Lauter Lautrer Breweries, All about beer in Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2009 (self-published), p. 43
  4. ↑ by Blohn, Hans, Schäfer, Fritz: Chronik der Brunnen von Kaiserslautern , Otterbach 1993, pp. 128 + 307
  5. ↑ Festschrift for the 100th anniversary: 100 years of FD Bender's Sons oHG Kaiserslautern 1849 - 1949 , p. 13
  6. ↑ Washboard strikes the last hour: demolition after a spectacular evacuation, 80 young people had occupied the restaurant. In: Die Rheinpfalz, July 15, 1981