Liesing Brewery

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Logo "Liesinger Beer"
Restoration of the brewery in 2012
Ammonia compressor 1885–1976, on Breitenfurter Straße
Liesinger Brewery Turm in 2006
One of Leopold Simony's workers' houses
The Bräuhaus in Liesing around 1872 (top left, excerpt from the recording sheet 1: 25,000 of the regional survey )

The brewery Liesing was a brewery on the 23rd Viennese district Liesing . The area has been an urban development project area since 2006.

location

The area of ​​the former Liesinger brewery is located on Breitenfurter Straße 372–380. In the immediate vicinity is the Liesing aqueduct of the 1st Vienna High Spring Water Pipeline . The historic rock cellar was located between Breitenfurter Strasse and today's Rudolf-Waisenhorn-Gasse.

history

The Liesing Brewery was initiated by Johann Georg Held (1796–1850), who in 1828 received approval to build a brewery. As early as 1803 his mother had acquired the old rock cellar under the "Stein Maßl". Held built the brewery until 1838. The buildings were made of partially plastered brick and were located on both sides of a factory road.

From 1839 beer was brewed in the Liesinger brewery and served for the first time on March 7th. In the years that followed, beer and bars rose as the "Ober-Liesinger Felsenkeller-Bräu". The Helds company experienced a great boom due to its favorable location on the southern railway line , which was opened in 1841 .

In his will, Held had ordered that the flourishing brewery should be closed after his death, the brewery should be auctioned and all of his property sold. But that didn't happen: Held's heirs were paid out by the co-owners Moritz Faber and Theodor Löwenthal, who continued and expanded the Liesing brewery.

In 1872 the brewery was converted into the "Aktiengesellschaft der Liesinger Brauerei", which was also referred to as the Liesing Aktienbrauerei for short.

At the end of the 19th century there were major structural changes in the brewery. In 1882, for example, the brewery was given a siding to Liesing station on the southern railway , which has since been removed. The freight wagons were moved on this route in the years around 1960 (in addition to the use of a small Köf diesel locomotive ) by a road-going tractor (with rubber tires, no railway wheels). This vehicle had railway buffers and a coupling for railway wagons at its rear.

In 1898 a tower was built on the brewery premises according to plans by Fellner & Helmer , which became the brewery's landmark. The Liesinger Brauhaus restoration with a large dance hall was a popular excursion destination for the Liesingen people for decades. By 1914, various residential buildings were built for the brewery workers and their families according to plans by Leopold Simony .

In 1928 the merger with the Österreichische Brau-AG took place . During the Third Reich, prisoners from the Schwechat II “Santa” concentration camp also worked in the brewery belonging to the “Ostmärkische Brau AG ” .

After the end of the Second World War, the Liesinger brewery was one of the first companies to be able to work again in 1945. At that time, the joint stock brewery was in the hands of the USIA , the Soviet occupying power. These ensured the supply of barley and employed 500 workers.

At the end of the 1960s a silo for 22,000 tons of barley was built. On July 13, 1973 the last brew was prepared in the brewery . After that there were only bottling plants for lemonade ( Keli ) and soda water in Liesing . In 1990 the last large chimney and the boiler house were removed. In the 1990s, large parts of the area were market areas for flea markets. After a spectacular major fire on February 11, 2005, these activities were also ended and demolition work began.

Until the demolition, a brewery museum reminded of the history of the brewery.

New district

From 2008 to 2012 more than 450 apartments, a shopping center, a dormitory and a day care center were built on the ten hectare brewery site. Offices and a medical and sports center were also planned. Of the three hectares of forest on the site, around 1 hectare was preserved. The urban planning concept for the new part of the Liesing district comes from Coop Himmelb (l) au , the construction is carried out by three different developers who hired the architectural offices Coop Himmelb (l) au , Delugan Meissl and Johannes Kaufmann Architektur for their project parts . The shopping center was opened with a multi-day festival from September 29 to October 2, 2010. The shopping center is called "Riverside". Since there were several similarly named companies in Vienna, the designation led to a proposal by a municipal politician of the FPÖ that the Vienna City Council should intervene to avoid confusion.

With the opening of the new area, a newly built pedestrian bridge - the former Fabergasse footbridge - was opened over the Liesing . This footbridge connects the northern end of Fabergasse with the new part of the district. It replaces the footbridge ( Brauereisteg ) built in 1927 , which led approx. 100 meters to the east to one of the main entrances of the former brewery. In its meeting on November 7, 2011, the municipal council committee for culture and science renamed the pedestrian crossing of the Liesing under the name Steg Fabergasse to Brauereisteg in memory of the former Liesinger brewery. In addition, the bus stop in front of the Riverside pharmacy was given the nostalgic name Alte Brauerei Liesing .

Products

The Liesinger beer was brewed in the Liesing brewery . B. the Liesinger Kaiser .

literature

Web links

Commons : Liesing Brewery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horse-drawn tow from the station to the Liesing Brewery. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , January 21, 1882, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bbb
  2. ↑ Erich Hoch: The locomotives of the Liesing siding. In: Railway. ISSN  0013-2756 ZDB -ID 162227-4 year 1972, issue 4, p. 57 (with picture of the tractor).
  3. ↑ Well cheers: beer from Liesing. In: bz Wiener Bezirkszeitung, Liesing. Meinviertel.at, issue 45, 7./8. November 2018, p. 5.
  4. ↑ Operation report of the Perchtoldsdorf fire brigade select the year "2005" and "February".
  5. ↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20060509_OTS0041/liesing-wuerdiger-lösungen-vom-ehemaligen-brauerei-gelaende
  6. ^ Homepage of the operator (queried September 29, 2010).
  7. ↑ Press release on the name Riverside.
  8. ↑ Press release on the opening of the pedestrian walkway.
  9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 17 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 36 ″  E