Wülfel brewery

Archway of the Wülfel lager brewery

The brewery Wülfel temporarily also Brauhaus Wülfel and Wülfeler brewery and lager brewery Wülfel was called a large brewery in Hannover and at times the largest as a cooperative organized brewery in Europe . The location of the company, whose origins went back to the beginning of the 19th century and whose entrance was later placed under monument protection, was Hildesheimer Strasse 420 in the Hanover district of Wülfel .

history

The manor brewery

The history of the brewery began at the time of the Electorate of Hanover , when in 1800 the sovereign King Georg III. who, as a result of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover at that time, still resided in the center of power of the British Empire , awarded the " brewery justified " to the owner of the Wülfel manor , A. Fontaine .

After the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia and in the course of industrialization , the manor owner converted his estate brewery into a commercial enterprise in 1868.

The cooperative brewery

In the late founding period of the German Empire , an association of Hanoverian innkeepers was founded, who bought the brewery from the landowner Fontaine in 1906 and continued this as the first brewery to be run as a cooperative in the history of Hanover under the name of Lagerbier-Brauerei Wülfel eGmbH . The future brewery director Albert Behn joined the company just two years later .

Behnstrasse street sign with a separate legend for the brewery director Albert Behn

During the Weimar Republic , the brewery buildings were extensively rebuilt by the architects Karl Fuhrmann and Karl Börgemann . The later listed buildings and the entrance area at Hildesheimer Straße 420 were created.

In 1959, the successor to Albert Behn, who had been brewing director until then, was arranged.

As recently as 1976, the Wülfeler comrades saw themselves as the largest cooperative brewery in Europe with an annual production of 350,000 hectoliters of beer, which was mainly sold in-house with the brands Kanzlei and Wilkenburger .

In 1978 the “Genossenschaftsbrauerei”, which previously operated as the Brauerei Wülfel eG , was converted into a stock corporation (AG) under the new name Brauerei Wülfel AG . All shares in the cooperative were converted into corresponding shares. But within only 3 years the AG got into difficulties due to falling sales , significantly weakening earnings and investments in ailing beverage markets. From 1980 the Gilde Brewery took on a support that has grown since then, but neither the market situation nor the profitability of the Wülfeler beers could be improved. As a result, the Wülfeler brewery was closed in 1994 and the company that had been converted into a stock corporation was also liquidated . Eventually the property was sold to an investor and most of the buildings were demolished.

Of the brewery's ensemble of buildings, in addition to an administration building, only the portal and part of the wall have been preserved and are now a listed building. The Wülfeler Brewery specialist market center was built on the site .

Personalities

• Albert Behn (1884–1969), long-time brewery director

Fonts

• Ralf Horn: 25 years of Wülfeler beer. Lager beer brewery, Hanover-Wülfel 1931, DNB 580968642 .

literature

• Wolfgang Neß : Wülfel. In: Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany , Architectural Monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), Part 2, Volume 10.2, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 112ff., Here: p. 112; as well as Wülfel in the addendum : List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation, p. 21.
• Andreas Fahl: From Broyhan to Pils. In: From tobacco growers and drunkards. On the history of beer, brandy and tobacco in Northern Germany, booklet accompanying the exhibition, exhibition network Sielhafenmuseum Carolinensiel ... Ed .: Kreismuseum Syke. District Museum, Syke 2000, p. 64ff.
• Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Brauhaus Wülfel AG. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 80.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Döhren-Wülfel

Web links

• Jens Schade: Back then in Wülfel: When beer was still brewed in the city district. With photos on the myheimat.de website from October 7, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Brauhaus Wülfel AG. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 80.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Wolfgang Neß: Wülfel. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany ... p. 112, as well as Addendum, p. 21.
3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Georg III., Elector, since 1814 King of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 128.
4. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Personal union. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 498.
5. ^ NN : Behn, Albert in the list of street names to be retained (of the state capital Hanover), ed. by the Urban Remembrance Culture team under the working title Scientific analysis of eponymous personalities , downloadable from the hannover.de website in the version dated September 29, 2015.
6. ↑ Compare the official legend on the road sign for Behnstraße
7. ↑ address.gelbeseiten.de
8. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Behnstrasse. In: Helmut Zimmermann: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 36.

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 28.2 "  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 56.6"  E