Carl Bremme Brewery
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1842 |
| Seat | Albertstrasse 48, 42289 Wuppertal |
| Branch | brewery |
The Carl Bremme brewery was founded by Carl Bremme († 1883) from Unna in August 1842 on the corner of Färberstrasse and Berliner Strasse in Barmen - Heckinghausen and grew into one of the largest breweries in the Rhineland in the first quarter of the twentieth century . Production stopped in 1992.
history
Foundation and development of the brewery
| year | Hectoliters |
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| 1867 | 2,000 |
| 1874 | 6,000 |
| 1883 | 44,000 |
| 1888 | 60,000 |
| 1892 | 81,000 |
| 1899 | 135,000 |
| 1905 | 150,000 |
| 1913/14 | 100,336 |
| 1929/31 | 130,385 |
| 1942 | 105,000 |
| 1945 | 60,000 |
| 1946 | 32,000 |
| 1948/49 | 32.051 |
| 1949/50 | 48,967 |
| 1950/51 | 68,244 |
| 1952 | 80,000 |
Already in 1842 the brewing business started in the Carl Bremme on the corner of Färberstrasse / Berliner Strasse in Barmen. From 1845 onwards, in addition to the company's own catering needs, brewing was also carried out for the market in the Bergisches Land , in 1848 the business was relocated to Reichsstraße in Barmen, at that time the brewery employed five brew boys and five apprentices. The first steam engine was installed in 1866 and the refrigeration machine invented by Carl von Linde in 1869 . In 1870 the company was relocated to Albertstraße on the Heidt and from 1874 it was expanded into an industrial brewery. In 1876 Carl Bremme's son Gustav Bremme ( councilor since 1913) joined the family business as a brewer , his brothers Emil Bremme and Adolf Bremme followed in 1879, respectively after the death of their father in 1883. In 1892, sales of 81,000 hl were achieved. Emil and Adolf Bremme died in 1918, so that the company management under Gustav Bremme's management (until 1923) passed to the third generation - namely to Emil, Adolf and Karl Bremme and their partner Alexander Dietz, son of a companion of the founder. After the loss of their brother Karl in a car accident and the death of Alexander Dietz in 1945, Emil and Adolf Bremme were the sole personally liable partners . The Carl Bremme brewery remained fully operational despite the damage of World War II and inflation in the post-war period . The brewery also had a lemonade and bottled beer department (as of 1952) .
Takeover by the Wicküler brewery
The Carl Bremme brewery was later taken over by the Wicküler brewery . After the Wicküler brewery was sold to the Dutch Grolsch brewery , production in the Carl Bremme brewery was discontinued in 1992. The Bremme-Pils was then brewed with the same recipe in different locations, including Iserlohn . On New Year's Eve 1996, Bremme-Pils was served on tap for the last time in the Wuppertal pubs; on June 30, 1997 the last bottle of Bremme beer went on sale. This marked the end of the century and a half of the Barmer brewery tradition.
Continued use of the brewery site
In 1995 the brewery site was acquired by the non-profit housing association Wuppertal (GWG) for 7.7 million German marks . The Bremme project was presented profitably to the GWG Supervisory Board , but the prognoses were not fulfilled . In connection with the following GWG scandal , Michael Hartmann , the former editor-in-chief of the Westdeutsche Zeitung , and Rainer Wolff , the head of the Wuppertaler Rundschau, were accused of accepting donations . The 14,000 m² site of the former brewery was largely empty for a long time or was used in a disorderly manner for urban planning purposes. Concepts from the Weimar project developer Florana KG from the end of 2004 were not implemented for a long time in the following years, despite the existing approval and expert opinion. At the end of 2010 a supermarket opened on 9,000 m². In April 2016, GWG sold the site to Wuppertaler Immobilienkontor GmbH, which plans to build 30 units for living and working on the site. The part of the site bordering Untere Lichtenplatzer Strasse remains in the possession of the GWG.
An advertisement on a house wall in Nützenberger Straße has survived for years after beer production was stopped.
Listed entrance to the former site on Albertstrasse
The inner courtyard of the brewery area has now given way to a supermarket
Today there is an Edeka market between the historic building wings
Company name
- 1842–? : Bremme & Denninghoff brewery
- 1880 : Carl Bremme Brewery
- 1918–1982: Carl Bremme OHG brewery
- 1982–1986: Carl Bremme KG brewery
- 1986–1991: Carl Bremme KG private brewery
- 1991–1991: Carl Bremme GmbH & Co KG private brewery
Products
In the Carl Bremme brewery, numerous types of beer that are well known beyond the city limits were produced. An overview:
- Brewers Alt
- Bremme Bräu Barmen Alt
- Brake Alt
- Bremme Bräu Barmen top-fermented light
- Bremme top-fermented light
- Bremme Brauherrn Pils
- Bremme export
- Brake power malt
- Brake master jig
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bremme-Pils: the last sip has been taken ... In: Wuppertaler Rundschau, No. 4 (January 25, 1997), p. 1.
- ↑ Chronicle from 1900 to 1999 ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. www.barmen-200-jahre.de Accessed March 2009
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: From the miraculous Bremme increase in value ) In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online)
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: three and a half years imprisonment for agent Kolbe. ) In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online)
- ↑ Broker Network Wuppertal from April 5, 2006
- ↑ WZ-Online.de , Claudia Kasemann: Bremme: Speculation about the investor - No schedule for the implementation of the supermarket plans , January 14, 2010
- ^ Lothar Leuschen: GWG sells Bremme premises. In: wz.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, April 26, 2016, accessed on April 27, 2016 .
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
- barmen24.de , Bremme Brewery, July 14, 2009
- Carl Bremme Brewery Expose
- Bremme memorabilia - bottle caps , beer coasters , model trains
- Bremme Brewery: Only the facade remains Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from July 21, 2011
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 6.3 " N , 7 ° 12 ′ 34.3" E