Paqué Brewery
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The Paqué brewery was the oldest and most traditional brewery in St. Wendel . It existed from 1836 to 1967 and, at the height of its success, had an output of 18,500 hectoliters . The St. Wendeler Pils brewed there and the Wendalinus Bock were transferred to the Becker brewery in 1967 and continued to be brewed there until it was closed in 1998.
history
Michael Paqué (born March 13, 1815; † 1884) was a craftsman and spent his apprenticeship years on the rolling mill , where he also learned the craft of brewing. When he returned to St. Wendel, he bought a house on Kelsweilerstrasse, where he set up an inn. There he founded the brewery in 1836 in the back of his economy and sold the beer brewed there. The brewing water was taken from the Todbach . The brewery remained in family ownership and was transferred to his two sons Johann and Heinrich, whom he trained himself, in 1869. These converted the flourishing brewery into an open trading company (OHG).
In 1884 the sons erected a new building on Gudesberg , which included the brewhouse and brewery and was supplemented by a steam engine in 1892 . After Johann Paqué left the OHG, Johann handed over the company rights to his two sons Josef and Carl. Josef Paqué took over the management. Despite the economic difficulties during and shortly after the First World War, the brewery was able to increase its output to 4,500 hectoliters. In 1927 the brewery was enlarged and its output increased continuously.
During the Second World War the brewery was able to continue to operate on a smaller scale until 1944 when bombing caused damage that paralyzed the brewery until it was restarted in 1948. In 1949 Walter Paqué took over the family business. There was a further expansion and the purchase of a bottle filling system. 1957 was the year of the highest production with 19,000 hectoliters of beer and 5,000 hectoliters of other commodities such as lemonade , soda and foreign beers. The brewery employed 26 workers at that time and, in addition to the district of St. Wendel, also supplied Ottweiler and Birkenfeld . In addition to the St. Wendeler Pils, the brewery also sold the Wendalinus Bock bock beer .
The (economic, so-called "final") accession of the Saarland to the Federal Republic of Germany on July 6, 1959 resulted in a drop in sales, as German breweries pushed onto the market. Walter Paqué continued to run the brewery until 1967 and then sold it to the St. Ingbert company Becker Bier, which relocated production from St. Wendel to St. Ingbert. This closed the last brewery in St. Wendel. However, the two beer brands were resold until 1998, with the Bock beer only being issued at Christmas time. St. Wendeler Pils still exists today as an inexpensive beer from the Karlsberg brewery .
The brewery building was acquired by the city of St. Wendel. Initially, a bypass road for the Urweiler district was planned, but this was not implemented for cost reasons. The building was initially preserved, but part of it was demolished on January 16, 1998 due to the risk of collapse.
literature
- Raimund Fuchs: St. Wendeler beer . In: District Administrator of the District of St. Wendel (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch des Landkreis St. Wendel 1981/82 . No. 19 , 1981, p. 149-172 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Paqué Brewery KG. Reinhard-Buerck.de, accessed on January 21, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 19.5 ″ N , 7 ° 10 ′ 9 ″ E