Willner wheat beer brewery

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Building of the Willner Brewery (July 2012)

The Willner wheat beer brewery was a Berlin wheat beer brewery in the Berlin-Pankow district from 1882 to 1990 ; the brewery buildings still preserved today in the block area between Berliner Straße 80/82 and Straße Eschengraben are under monument protection .

history

Founded by Emil Willner in 1882, the brewery became a public limited company after bankruptcy in 1935, which is why the brewery name was changed to Willner-Brauerei AG . A malt house was built next to the brewhouse , which produced barley and wheat malt for both its own use and for sale until 1944. In 1949 it was expropriated and incorporated into the Berliner Brauereien GmbH as a trust company Willner Brewery . In the same year, however, the facility was able to work as a separate company again, which became public property when the GDR was founded. Soon several breweries merged to form an association of state-owned companies (VVB). In 1959 the Willner brewery was subordinated to the VEB Schultheiß brewery Schönhauser Allee as a department Willner . From 1969 the brewery was managed by the VEB der Berliner Brauereien under the company VI Schultheiss Schönhauser Allee as a wheat beer department. In the same year the VEB Getränkekombinat Berlin was founded , which the brewery did not join until 1990.

The beverage combine was dissolved as a result of German reunification in 1990, and the wheat beer brewery was now incorporated into the Brewing and Refreshing Drinks AG Berlin (BEAG). BEAG was a joint venture between the Brau und Brunnen Group (BBAG), which belongs to the Oetker Group . But at the end of 1990 the brewery was closed.

In 2012, a cultural interim use of art, events and gastronomy began on the listed part of the former brewery and malting plant, which operated under the label WBB (Willner-Brauerei-Berlin). The initiators of the WBB had leased the area for 10 years. The garden of the customs house on Berliner Straße was already used as a beer garden at the beginning of the 20th century . The beer garden was initially operated until 1993 and reopened in 2013 as "Emils Biergarten" by the operator of the temporary use . In 2014 the Bogk brewery moved from Berlin-Kreuzberg to the Willner brewery site. On March 19, 2016, the 3rd Berlin White Summit took place on the premises with the participation of 17 breweries . In November 2016, the 9th GAT - Greetings from Tattoos , an annual exhibition of images of the tattooable arts , took place in the Willner Brewery.

After the property was sold by Nicolas Berggruen to Jenn Grundbesitz GmbH & Co. KG , the temporary use ended in December 2017. On the last day of opening, December 16, 2017, a final festival entitled Lost took place. All rooms of the building ensemble were opened here. The visitors were offered a group exhibition The Dark Rooms , film screening of films previously only seen at film festivals, 48 hours of cinema and disc jockeys in the basement and in the clubs .

Little is known about future use.

anecdote

As an anecdote about the property, it is reported that there was a merchant's villa, the inventory of which was stolen during the owner's trip to Italy. Subsequently, the building is said to have been unauthorized to have been removed down to the foundation, so that the owner found an empty property on his return.

Web links

Commons : Weißbierbrauerei Willner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  2. ↑ Historical brewery directory Germany of the federal states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia from approx. 1900 of the IBV Internationaler Brauereikultur-Verband eV , 1995, IBV-Eigenverlag, Stuttgart.
  3. ↑ Stefan Strauss: Willner Brewery - The new culture brewery. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Retrieved November 2, 2016 .
  4. ↑ wbb-pankow.de
  5. ↑ Erik Wenk: Berliner Weisse - The first German beer with a regional cultural heritage. In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved November 2, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Not just raspberries: 42 types of Berliner Weisse. In: morgenpost.de. Retrieved November 2, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Romy Campe: GAT 2016 - Greetings from tattoos in the Willner brewery. In: KUNSTLEBEN BERLIN. Retrieved October 29, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Lisa Steiner: Lost in the Dark , in: Berliner Zeitung , December 15, 2017.
  9. ↑ Legend of the stolen house on pankowerchronik.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 21 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 56.3 ″  E