CW Naumann brewery

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The CW Naumann brewery around 1920

The brewery CW Naumann was a brewery in the Leipzig district of Plagwitz . After an operating time of over 120 years, production was stopped in 1991. After the site had fallen into disuse, the “Naumann'sche Brewery” residential area was built here from 2017 to 2019.

location

The CW Naumann brewery was located in the area between Zschocherschen Strasse and Erich-Zeigner-Allee south of Eduardstrasse. The area of ​​the company was about 2.75 hectares. The site drops from Zschocherschen Strasse to Erich-Zeigner-Allee by over six meters.

history

The brewery around 1900
Zschochersche Strasse brewhouse around 1929
Share of RM 100 in the CW Naumann AG brewery dated June 6, 1941

In 1828, the brewer Carl Wilhelm Naumann (1792–1876) from Glaucha near Halle took the brewer and maltster oath before the City Council of Leipzig and founded the CW Naumann brewery. He first brewed in a leased brewery on Windmühlengasse. In 1832 he bought the Kleine Funkenburg estate in Ranstädter Steinweg , had a brewery built and brewed the first beer here in 1835. To store the beer cool, he bought a piece of land in the community of Plagwitz and had a cellar dug into the ground, which he called the rock cellar .

In 1857 Naumann acquired the large property on Zschocherschen Strasse and initially built another storage cellar here, which was soon followed by a brewery using a steam engine (steam brewery). Production started in 1864. In the following years the company was constantly expanded. Among other things, a new malt house building, a brewhouse , a siding and an office building were built. In 1884 an ice machine made storage in the old rock cellar superfluous. Bottled beer began to be bottled in 1901, after which until then it had only been stored and delivered in barrels.

In 1887, with an annual production of 38,000 hectoliters, CW Naumann was the third largest brewery in the city of Leipzig after Riebeck & Co. and the Leipziger Vereinsbrauerei .

To secure his sales, Conrad Wilhelm Naumann bought, built or rented numerous restaurants: in 1864 a four-story residential building with a restaurant on his Kleine Funkenburg property, in 1877 Zill's tunnel with a new construction, in 1890 the Felsenkeller ball house on the site of the old Felsenkeller, in 1913 the Naumann-Bräu im Dresdner Hof with 1000 seats and the Drei Linden variety theater , today a musical comedy .

Initially, Naumann ran the business as a general partnership with his two oldest sons. When the company was converted into a stock corporation in 1891 , but remained in family ownership, the third generation was already involved. After a weakening in the First World War , the company experienced a renewed boom in the 1920s. In 1918 the steam brewery Zwenkau was taken over and in 1921 the originally bigger competitor, the Leipziger Vereinsbrauerei , with which one of the oldest brewing rights in the city was connected. In 1929, around 300 employees produced around 170,000 hectoliters of beer.

After the Second World War again difficulties were encountered, the company was expropriated in 1946 under the name VEB Western source in public property transferred. In 1959 it became part II of the VEB Sachsenbräu , which was merged into the VEB Beverage Combine in Leipzig in 1968 . After the re-privatization in 1990 as Brauhaus Plagwitz , operations ceased in 1991 and the site fell into disrepair.

Residential area

After fifteen years of fallow land, the discounter Lidl opened a branch with a parking lot on around a quarter of the site. It took another ten years for construction to begin on much of the rest of the site. Following the purchase of the site by Wiesbaden-based Haus & Capital Wirtschafts- und finanzberatungs GmbH , in a workshop process in 2012 the possibilities of converting the brewery site were assessed by six architectural offices.

  • The renovated brewhouse

  • City villas around inner courtyard

  • Vault exposure ice cellar

  • ... and what became of it. The reconstructed cold store.

After the planning phase by the architects Mann & Schott, construction work began in 2017. The listed buildings on the site were preserved: the former brewhouse on Zschocherschen Strasse, the so-called "Eiskeller" adjacent to Erich-Zeigner-Allee and the former two-story office building. Eleven city ​​villas with four to six storeys were newly built . The total number of apartments is 226. The sloping area to the east was designed in stepped levels with footpaths and green spaces and is completely car-free. Underground garages lead to under the houses, from where the apartments can be reached by elevator.

literature

  • Peter Schwarz: Millennial Leipzig . From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. 1st edition. tape 2 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-05-9 , pp. 142/143 .

Web links

Commons : Brewery CW Naumann  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conversion of the 'Former Naumann Brewery' Results of the workshop will be exhibited. In: Website of the city of Leipzig. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jens Rometsch: Former Leipzig brewery makes space for 226 apartments. In: LVZ March 17, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 33 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 9 ″  E