Puntigam Brewery
The Puntigam brewery in Graz is one of the oldest large breweries in Styria . It is located in the 17th district of Graz Puntigam and is part of Brau Union Österreich AG , which has been part of the Heineken Group since 2003 .
history
As early as 1478, the first brewery was built in the south of Graz near Feldkirchen bei Graz . The name Puntigam was originally not a place name, but a family name. Located on the former “Kommerzialstraße” (today's Triesterstraße), which led to Trieste , was a manor house with an adjoining inn, a small brewery and a garden. The building is dated to 1772, as indicated by an inscription in an archway. Of the numerous small breweries that emerged in Graz from the 15th century onwards, only a few were able to hold their own, such as the Puntigam brewery.
From around 1800 it developed into a large industrial brewery and from 1838 it was officially founded by Franz Knabl from Graz on the grounds of the Puntigamerhof and expanded by the Knabl and Hold families from Graz. The entrepreneur Franz Hold († August 22, 1872; age: 70) acquired the brewery from the Knabl family in 1840 and began modernizing the plant. Around 100,000 hl of beer were already being produced in 1872 . In 1874 the Puntigam brewery's company fire brigade was founded.
In 1889 the brewery was taken over by the Schreiner family. The company name was changed to “Erste Grazer Actienbrauerei, formerly Schreiner & Sons”. Ten years later the company employed around 400 people, and by 1913 the annual beer production had increased to a record level of 380,000 hl.
The Puntigam brewery exported its products to the entire territory of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and took over the Japl brewery in Graz, as well as breweries in Fürstenfeld, Mürzzuschlag and Feldbach. She also held stakes in the Laibacher Brauerei-Aktiengesellschaft "Union" and "Vereinigte Kärntner Brauereien AG" in Villach.
After the First World War and the associated loss of the large sales area due to the division of the former monarchy, the output volume shrank to a tenth of the pre-war record. After the economic crisis in 1935 there was a rapprochement with the Reininghaus brewery. After bombs in the Second World War , the Reininghaus premises were completely destroyed and that in Puntigam partially destroyed.
In 1943 the company merged with the second large brewery in Graz, that of the Reininghaus brothers , whose own location in Eggenberg was closed in 1947. At the same time, the entire beer production was relocated to Puntigam, and both brands were retained.
Thirty years later, the "Brothers Reininghaus Brauerei Aktiengesellschaft" and the "Verbund Brauerei Aktiengesellschaft" ( Puntigamer ) founded the " Steirerbrau AG ". In 1997 the "Steirerbrau AG" and the "Brau AG" formed the " Brau Union " by merging. The Puntigamer brand has remained to this day, even after the Brau Union was taken over by the Dutch brewery group Heineken in 2003 .
The current annual beer output is around one million hl. This makes Puntigamer the best-selling beer in Austria.
In 2011 the deposit-free PET bottle (1.5 liters), which is unusual in Austria, was introduced, but it did not last long on the Austrian beer market.
The promotional jingle "Mit einer Funny samma, mia und unsa Puntigamer" is mentioned and modified several times in Wolf Haas ' novel Das Ewige Leben .
Product range
- Puntigamer
- Märzenbier under the name "the beery beer": Bottom-fermented light full beer. 5.1% vol. Alcohol content, 11.8% original wort
- Panther 5.2% vol. Alcohol content, 12.6% original wort
- Summer beer 3.6% vol. Alcohol content, 8.3% original wort
- Winter beer 6.0% vol. Alcohol content, 13.8% original wort
- October beer: 5.0% vol. Alcohol content
- Cyclist
- Almradler (Puntigamer beer with Almdudler )
- Reininghaus (own brand, taken over)
Sponsorship
Puntigamer has been the main sponsor of the Graz soccer club SK Sturm since 1996 . The brewery also supports the soccer clubs Austria Wien and Wolfsberger AC , as well as the Austrian ice hockey club Graz 99ers .
literature
- Bernadette Pfingstl, Josef Pfingstl and Sabine Holasek: 125 years of the Puntigam company fire service . Graz 1999. (Festschrift)
Web links
- Puntigamer website
- Graz-Puntigam Brewery . Entry in The Brewery Guide by Michael Kranewitter.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brau Union Austria, history. Retrieved on April 5, 2020 (German).
- ^ Pfingstl, Pfingstl, Holasek: 125 years of the Puntigam company fire service. P. 11.
- ^ Pfingstl, Pfingstl, Holasek: 125 years of the Puntigam company fire service. P. 11.
- ^ Pfingstl, Pfingstl, Holasek: 125 years of the Puntigam company fire service. P. 16.
- ^ Pfingstl, Pfingstl, Holasek: 125 years of the Puntigam company fire service. P. 11f.
- ^ Pfingstl, Pfingstl, Holasek: 125 years of the Puntigam company fire service. P. 12.
- ^ History of the Puntigam Brewery on puntigamer.at , October 28, 2012
- ^ Sigrid Nindl: Wolf Haas and his criminal literary language experiment. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2010, pp. 46, 216.
- ↑ Jon Sherman: Plurality and Alterity in Wolf Haas's Detective Brenner Mysteries. In: Lynn M. Kutch, Todd Herzog: Tatort Germany. The Curious Case of German-language Crime Fiction. Pp. 61–80, at p. 71.
- ^ OP Zier: Wolf Haas - The eternal life. In: Austrian Literature , 2003, p. 30.
Coordinates: 47 ° 1 ′ 48.4 ″ N , 15 ° 26 ′ 3 ″ E