Winger Brewery

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Winger Brewery
legal form
founding 1642
resolution 1931
Seat St. Polten
Branch brewery

The Winger Brewery was an Austrian brewery in St. Pölten . The predecessor brewery at the same location existed from the 16th century until a major city fire in 1621. Soon afterwards, the building was rebuilt in 1642, and the brewery was now in operation until 1931.

prehistory

A private brewery was first mentioned in the Franziskanergasse 3, i.e. at the location of the later Winger brewery , in 1589. Four years later, this brewery became the property of the city of St. Pölten and was destroyed in a major city fire in 1621.

history

In 1642 a new building was erected on the same site and the new brewery was leased from the municipality. In 1699, the city finally sold the brewery, which from then until its end was privately owned.

The company premises were considerably enlarged through acquisitions, so in 1714 Bräuhausgasse 5 and in 1717 Bräuhausgasse 4 were added; Another expansion took place in 1774. In the 19th century, the company was called the Fichtl Brewery until Franz Fichtl sold his company to Rudolf Winger in 1879. He had previously managed the St. Pauli brewery in Hamburg . After his death in 1886, his son Rudolf Winger took over the company and equipped the Winger brewery , which until then had been a manual operation, with machines for the first time.

After the completion of a new boiler house , the brewery had two steam boiler systems in 1896. Produced lager , March beer after Pilsner kind and St. Stephansbräu by Bavarian style. Besides beer produced in the operation of an ice cream factory ice and in other affiliated manufacturing soda water ( Ruwin ) and soft drinks ( Ruwinkracherl ) ago.

In 1931 operations had to be stopped as a result of the economic crisis, the brewery was taken over by Österreichische Brau AG and converted into a distribution warehouse for Brau AG .

Since the end of operations

During the Second World War, the brewhouse was badly damaged by bombs in 1945 and was finally dismantled around 1955. To date, only the facilities adjacent to the Franciscan monastery between Franziskanergasse and Bräuhausgasse have been preserved. These buildings have two to three storeys and were home to the kiln , soda water production and administration. The factory owner's apartment was - next to the brewery inn - at Franziskanergasse 3.

literature

  • Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial heritage of Lower Austria. History-technology-architecture. Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77460-0 , pp. 595-596

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '23.9 "  N , 15 ° 37' 23.2"  E