Lueneburg Brewery Museum
 Brewhouse of the former Kronen brewery |
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| place | Luneburg |
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Technical industrial monument
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| opening | 1985 |
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The Lüneburg Brewery Museum is located in the brewhouse of the former Lüneburg Kronen Brewery on Heiligengeiststrasse. The museum, located in the middle of the historic old town, focuses on the history of beer brewing in the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg . The museum opened on May 14, 1985 and is now located on the premises of the East Prussian State Museum, from which it is administered.
Lüneburg crown brewery
The Hanseatic city of Lüneburg owes its early wealth to the salt trade, at the same time there were 80 breweries in the city that brewed beer here in the late Middle Ages. One of these breweries was Thomas Lampe's brewery on Heiligengeiststrasse. The brewery was first mentioned in a document in 1485, so Lampe is considered the ancestor of the Lüneburg Kronenbrauerei.
Many brewers followed him until Hermann Möllering took over the brewery in 1890. He was the first merchant in the long history of beer in Lüneburg. Möllering modernized both the facilities and sales and in 1904 converted the company into a stock corporation. In 1903 he built the brewhouse which is now the brewery museum.
After a long-term cooperation, the expanding Kronen Brewery was taken over by the Holsten Brewery in 1974 . The Kronen Brewery in Heiligengeiststrasse soon reached its capacity limit and expansions were no longer possible due to the limited space available. Shortly before its 500th anniversary, it moved to the industrial area of Hafen Lüneburg in 1980/81.
The production buildings were demolished and only the historic brewery building at Heiligengeiststrasse 39–41 and the brewhouse built in 1903, the "heart" of the brewery, remained as an industrial monument. It opened in 1985 as a brewery museum.
On the vacated site, u. a. a new building for the East Prussian State Museum , which was opened in 1987 and which today looks after the brewery museum.
exhibition
The heart of the brewery museum are the two copper brew kettles of the historic brewery. With numerous objects and equipment, insights into the brewing trade up to the beginnings of industrial production are offered. The brewing process from "straw to beer" is illustrated step by step. In addition, for example, the work in the brewery laboratory, in the cooperage and the bottling and barrel filling is shown.
The visitor gets an insight into the brewing technology from the late 19th century to the 1970s, the working conditions in the 20th century and, as a link to the East Prussian State Museum, the history of brewing in East Prussia.
literature
- History of the City of Lüneburg , W. Reinecke, Lüneburg 1933
- 450 years of the Kronen Brewery in Lüneburg , Gertrud Möllering, Wilhelm Reinecke, Heinrich Borstelmann, Lüneburg, October 1935
- Salt and Malt , Helmut C. Pless , Lüneburg 1985
Web links
- Website of the Lüneburg Brewery Museum
- Website of the East Prussian State Museum with Baltic German department
- Private website about the Lüneburg Kronen Brewery
Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 48.1 ″ N , 10 ° 24 ′ 25.4 ″ E