Fottner Brewery
| Brewery "Zum grau Bock" (Fottner) | |
|---|---|
| legal form | at the dissolution: oHG |
| founding | 1893 |
| resolution | 1970 |
| Seat | Weißenburg in Bavaria |
| Branch | brewery |
The Fottner brewery ( Zum grau Bock ) was a brewery in the Central Franconian district town of Weißenburg in Bavaria . It was based at Oberen Stadtmühlgasse 7 . In the 1920s it is said to have been the only wheat beer brewery in all of Middle Franconia, which is why Fottner also called his brewery the First Weissenburger wheat beer brewery .
history
Originally the "gray goat" was located in the house at Obere Stadtmühlgass 12 . In 1894 Eduard Reindel ("ash collector") moved them to the building opposite, Obere Stadtmühlgasse 7 . In 1908 the master brewer Georg Fottner from Unterwohlbach near Freising acquired the property. He also brought the art of wheat beer brewing with him from Upper Bavaria . The poor transportability of wheat beer in the swing top bottles customary at the time prevented it from spreading beyond Weißenburg.
From 1910, Fottner also offered his beer at the Weißenburger Kirchweih . Fottner was active until his death in 1956. Then the son-in-law Wilhelm Hofmann took over the brewery and the brewery restaurant. Shortly before the company was handed over to his son, however, he had a fatal accident in the Alps . Since the Hofmann couple saw no future for the brewery, the brewery and the rights to the recipe for the wheat beer were sold to the Hofmühl private brewery in Eichstätt on January 1, 1970 . The restaurant was used as such until 1995. A doctor's practice has been housed in the house since 2001.