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The Braugold Vertriebs GmbH & Co. KG was a brewery in Erfurt . It was one of the largest breweries in the state and was for a time the market leader in Thuringia.
history
The history of the Braugold brewery goes back to two breweries that were founded in the 19th century. On the one hand, Volkmar Döppleb bought two beer courtyards on the Große Arche street in the city center in 1822 and 1827. These were town houses that had brewing rights , the beers , on the basis of agricultural property . The resulting brewery later passed to a Baumann family, who also bought the Schedel brewery in 1848 . The second line was founded by Christian Büchner in 1823 through the purchase of the Zur Lauenburg brewery . Under his management, the brewery moved to its new location in the Löbervorstadt near the Erfurt city park in 1888.
In 1920 the Baumann brewery bought the Büchner AG brewery, thereby merging the two lines. At the same time, it merged with the Leipziger Riebeck Brauerei AG founded by Carl Adolf Riebeck . In 1921, 100,000 hectoliters of beer were produced in what was now the large brewery.
After the end of the Second World War , the brewery was transferred to public ownership in 1948 . With the entry of the Braugold trademark in 1956, the brewery received its current name. In 1967 the production of today's best-selling beer, Braugold Pilsner Spezial, began . In 1969, through the merger of nine breweries in the Erfurt district, the VEB Getränkekombinat Erfurt was formed. The Braugold brewery became the parent company and headquarters of the combine management .
After the turnaround and the associated end of the beverage combine, the Braugold brewery was initially taken over by the Licher private brewery in 1990 . In 1996 it was finally taken over by the successor to the previous owner, the Riebeck Group, which at that time also included the brewery in Eisenach and the Wernesgrüner brewery . In 2005, 160,000 hectoliters of beer were produced here. At the beginning of 2007, the Eschweger monastery brewery and the Waldhoff beverage group took over the Braugold brewery.
In autumn 2010, production in the Erfurt plant was stopped because the run-down brewery building no longer allows cost-covering production. The actual brewing process and bottling now takes place in other breweries.
Age-appropriate apartments are to be found on the former brewery site, as well as accommodation for students and a restaurant brewery . In 2013 the facilities and buildings not listed were dismantled.
In 2018, the managing director of the Einsiedler Brauhaus from Chemnitz bought the trademark rights from Braugold.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Report of the Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung from April 2000 ( Memento from April 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ HNA online from January 2, 2007
- ^ Message on the OTZ homepage from November 22, 2010
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 8 ″ N , 11 ° 2 ′ 4 ″ E