Weimar-Ehringsdorf Brewery

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Weimar-Ehringsdorf GmbH brewery
legal form GmbH
founding 1840
Seat Weimar-Ehringsdorf , Germany
management Nicolaus Wagner, managing director
Number of employees Around 10
Branch brewery
Website www.ehringsdorfer.de

Historical brewery view

The Weimar-Ehringsdorf GmbH brewery is a medium-sized beer brewery . It has been part of the Pößneck rose brewery since 2000 . The company's headquarters have been in Ehringsdorf , a current district of Weimar , in Thuringia for 170 years . Beer and mixed beer beverages are brewed with around 10 employees. The beer is sold under the protected product name “Brewery Weimar-Ehringsdorf”. The main sales areas in Thuringia are the Ilm district , the Weimarer Land district , Weimar and Jena .

Prehistory to the Heydenreich manor and the brewing industry in Ehringsdorf

A Heinrich von Iringsdorf is mentioned for the first time in 1329. One assumption is that the later Ehringsdorf manor arose from the “old noble seat”. In 1619 the state government issued brewing regulations, which were confirmed again in 1620 and 1645. From the files in the archive it can be read that on April 20, 1640 there was a manor with manorial farmers in Ehringsdorf. Another fact is that the Ehringsdorfer manor had three Fronhöfe.

In 1684 new brewing regulations were issued to improve the brewing industry. In 1806 the "beer bar justice" (later called the "Beizapfen") was leased to the innkeeper Wörnler zu Heringsdorf . In 1826 Carl Johann Christian Wilhelm Heydenreich (1795–1840) bought the manor in Oberweimar and remained Grand Duke. Saxon brewing inspector for the Kammergut breweries in Oberweimar and Lützendorf. In 1828 the parish of Ehringsdorf was given permission to have a second inn, the "Zapfenwirt". In a contemporary source, this approval is rated as follows: "This gave a welcome boost to drinking and shattered the prosperity of many families."

After the Ehringsdorf community had sent the Grand Ducal State Directorate a petition for litigation against the local manor owner Rose “for refused raffle payment”, the Weimar government authority, signed by a Mr. Schwindler, received a refusal on October 15, 1831, the “approval regarding the conduct of the lawsuit against the manor owner Rose ”.

In July 1836 Carl Heydenreich (owner of the manor in Oberweimar and brewing inspector) bought the small Ehringsdorfer manor. Later came the brick factory with 150 acres. In 1839 Carl Heydenreich bought the simple, small brewery from Herr Findeisen, which until then had been operated with the simplest means, and died at the age of 45 in December 1840.

Bernhard Richard Heydenreich, who later became the district chamber councilor, acquired the Ehringsdorf estate from the heirs on July 4, 1856. In 1860 he married Marie Vent from Weimar, the daughter of the court councilor there. His second son Paul Heinrich Karl Franz managed the estate from 1892.

The "simple beer brewery" affiliated to the manor grew bigger and bigger, especially in the 1870s. In the years 1871-1883 the brewery was rebuilt by Richard Heydenreich in a disused travertine quarry on Hainweg. Later, under the management of master brewer Pöhlmann, it achieved an impressive annual turnover of 40,000 hectoliters. Paul Heydenreich died at the age of 48 in May 1912, his father, District Chamberlain Richard Heydenreich, in May 1913. Paul Heydenreich's only son, Wilhelm, had to “go into the field” in World War I, in 1919 he returned to Ehringsdorf and resigned immediately joined the company that had been run by Elisabeth Heydenreich, née Tower that had been brought to me by Messrs Heubach and Müller. In addition to the extensive machine park for agricultural equipment, there were 60 draft horses here, some of which were also used for services at the Ehringsdorf fire brigade (medical service for pulling fire engines), as well as around 100 dairy cows. The use of the 278 hectare agricultural area was based on the so-called four-field economy. In addition, brewing barley was grown for the company's own malting and beet seeds were increased (seed cultivation).

History of the brewery

From 1879 to 1885 Mr. Limpert was a master brewer in Ehringsdorf, after which Steinle was employed until 1902. This was replaced by master brewer Pölmann, who later had an accident when the old brewhouse was demolished. In 1886–1888, construction of the new storage cellar in the brewery began. The work was carried out by the bricklayer's foremen Kkampf (stone quarries) and Lisker (Oberweimar). They each received 18,000 Reichsmarks for their work. The fermentation cellar above was completed in 1888 and put into operation immediately.

1890-1891 the new brewery was built in Ehringsdorf, the brewhouse, the machine house, the boiler house and the 40 meter high forge were renewed. Cooking began on October 1, 1891, and the first beer was delivered from Department IV on December 1. During this time, the new living quarters for the brewery staff were moved into. In 1895 the Ehringsdorfer brewery received a MAN steam engine.

In 1900 Richard Heydenreich had an ice cellar building built on the pond site for his brewery. The Heydenreich family owned five restaurants and three hotels of their own in Weimar - among them the "Hohenzollern" on Brennerstrasse. In 1912 a machine shed was built in the Ehringsdorf manor

In 1933 the new brewery of the Ehringsdorfer brewery was put into operation. Shortly after the Second World War, in 1946, the Ehringsdorf manor was expropriated as part of the land reform because it owned 278 hectares of land and thus more than the 100 hectare limit . The Thuringian consumer cooperative took over the brewery in Ehringsdorf in 1947.

In 1955 the former Richard Heydenreich brewery became the Weimar-Ehringsdorf consumer brewery . In 1990 it became the Weimar brewery . In 1998, after the Weimar private brewery had de facto ceased to be operated in 1995, the Pößneck rose brewery bought the premises of the bankrupt Weimar private brewery at auction . On November 29, 2000, the brewery's farm buildings were foreclosed by auction, and the rose brewery from Pößneck was also awarded the contract. After investments of 1.3 million euros, beer has been brewed again at the Ehringsdorf location since 2003.

Varia

  • In the spring of 2019, the Weimar-Ehringsdorf brewery took the 100th anniversary of Bauhaus as an occasion for five short-term, completely Bauhaus-compliant labels for its Ehringsdorfer Urbräu beer brand : Based on the Bauhaus - Brauhaus play on words , the Goldwiege advertising agency created five texts for the front labels and a uniform label on the back with the motto 100 years of brewery (= original spelling ). Only one bottle per crate of beer had one of the special labels with a red crown cap . The five label texts are (in the original spelling): 100 years of Bauhaus - 179 years of brauhaus. / the brewery comes from weimar. / unity of craft and art - the brewery. / Masters, journeymen, apprentices - the brewery. / our game, our party, our work - celebrate with the brewery .

Web links

literature

  • Helmut Geiger: Weimar and his beer , 216 pages, Guttenberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050320-7
  • Gunter Rentzsch, Gerd Schacke: 750 years Ehringsdorf. Chronicle . Published by Heimatverein Ehringsdorf 01 eV, Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-00-009372-9 .
  • Hans-Joachim Sehrbundt, Horst Heydenreich: The Sehrbundts. The Heydenreichs. Volume II of the genealogy "The Sehrbundts". 2004, pp. 391-415, ISBN 978-3-8334-1560-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Since 1999 weimar -Ehringsdorf brewery www.ehringsdorfer.de , accessed on January 17, 2016
  2. Photo + source: https://goldwiege.de/blog/br-auhaus-weimar/ - accessed on May 24, 2019. The text on the back label (in the original spelling): In 2019 we will celebrate the 100th anniversary together of the bauhaus in weimar. partying was part of the school's program. let's toast: to experiment, diversity and the modern zeitgeist. Source: template, i.e. beer bottle with special label.
  3. Thüringer Allgemeine : Agency Goldwiege gives Urbräu a Bauhaus dress. One of the five special labels is hidden in every normal Ehringsdorfer Urbräu box. , Online edition, March 9, 2019, accessed May 24, 2019
  4. About the author Helmut Geiger , accessed on February 5, 2020
  5. † 2018 - Source: Beer was his life: Helmut Geiger in memory - The book author and employee of the Bayerische Rundschau died after a brief serious illness , accessed on February 5, 2020
  6. There were a surprising number of breweries in Weimar - the former managing director of the Ehringsdorf company, Helmut Geiger, wrote a book about the history of “liquid bread” in Weimar. , accessed on February 5, 2020

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 32 "  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 57"  E