Strauss Brewery
| Brewery Strauss OHG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | OHG |
| founding | 1797 |
| Seat | Wettelsheim , Germany |
| management | Karl Strauss |
| Website | www.wettelsheimer.de |
The Strauss brewery in Wettelsheim , a district of Treuchtlingen in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia , goes back to an auction by the government in Ansbach in 1797. At this auction, the brewing and brandy concession was auctioned for the village of Wettelsheim. The Wettelsheim farmer Nikolaus Erdinger (1768–1845) auctioned the concession for 4,700 guilders. Today the brewery is located at An der Rohrach 17-19 in Wettelsheim.
History of the Strauss Brewery
Nikolaus Erdinger built a brewery with an inn in 1780 and 1781. After a good twenty years, this brewery went bankrupt . The brewer's daughter Elisabeth Stöhr from Bubenheim bought the property and the brewing rights at auction in 1820 and in 1821 Elisabeth Stöhr married the Wettelsheim brewer Johann Georg Gempel, with whom she ran the brewery. After his death, Elisabeth married Johann Georg Ranzenberger in 1845, who continued the brewery after her death. This ran into financial difficulties, so that in 1874 the stepbrother and master brewer Johann Michael Strauss (1830–1902), who came from Indernbuch, acquired the entire property. Since then, the brewery has been owned by the Strauss family. In 1893, master brewer Karl Strauss (1859–1934) took over the brewery from his father. He married Margarete Hörlein, who came from the Weimersheimer brewery. In the following years the brewery was enlarged and modernized. In 1927, his son Karl (1896–1963) took over the brewery, which his widow continued to run after his death in 1963 until the current owner, Karl Strauss, took over the business in 1968. The draft beer is available in wooden barrels you peeled yourself.
Summer cellar
With the introduction of "brown beer", so-called summer cellars were necessary to store the beer. Therefore, in the middle of the 19th century, Johann Georg Ranzenberger founded a summer cellar on the so-called Rappenbuck between Wettelsheim and Treuchtlingen, which still exists today as the Wettelsheim cellar . In 1893 Johann Michael Strauss had a summer house built in the cellar . The summer cellar has around 1,200 seats.
Others
The brewery is a member of the Brauring , a cooperation between private breweries from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Stefan Dauner, Gernot Römhild, Steinkr jugs from breweries and inns in the Weißenburger Land, p. 66
- ↑ www.wettelsheimer-bier.de ( Memento from August 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Stefan Dauner, Gernot Römhild, Steinkr jugs from breweries and inns in the Weißenburger Land, p. 67.
- ↑ Member breweries . Brewing ring, accessed February 20, 2020 .