Brewery of the City of Vienna

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Last traces of the Wiener Stadtbräu

The Brauhaus der Stadt Wien or Wiener Stadtbräu was a beer brewery owned by the City of Vienna and located in Rannersdorf in the Schwechat municipality . In the inter-war period , the brewery was one of the largest breweries in Austria .

history

A majority of the Vienna-based hosts existing and 1899 constituted cooperative acquired as Vienna Brauhaus Gen.mbH on 22 September 1900, located in Rannersdorf Landgrave Good Wallhof including arable and meadows, where he built a brewery with an annual capacity of about 100,000 hectoliters of beer a . With this campaign they wanted to free themselves from the dependence on private breweries.

The plan threatened to fail, however, as it turned out that the profitability limit was around 200,000 hectoliters per year and the necessary capacity expansion could not be achieved with our own financial resources. Negotiations with the municipality of Vienna resulted in the city taking over Gut Wallhof with an area of ​​around 154 hectares and, in return, expanding the brewery for an annual production of at least 250,000 hectoliters, which the Vienna City Council approved on June 27, 1905.

The necessary measures were carried out between 1906 and 1911. Despite tough competition, it was possible to increase sales from around 70,000 hectoliters in 1906 to around 242,000 hectoliters in 1914. From 1911 onwards, the City of Vienna's brewery only made profits.

In the interwar period , the brewery was modernized, and 14 workers 'and four civil servants' houses as well as a welfare building with a works canteen, changing rooms and washing and bathing facilities were built. The annual beer output, which fell to 40,000 hectoliters during the First World War , was increased to 184,756 hectoliters in 1922 and subsequently to 425,845 hectoliters. In contrast to the private breweries, the beer price could be kept at the same level. In 1927 the brewery was connected to the Vienna water supply.

On December 3, 1956, the press in the Vienna Rathauskeller was informed about the plan to initially offer three additional types of beer in so-called small beer bottles. A good acceptance of the new bottle size was expected above all because in the last 10 years the sale of beer in 0.5 liter bottles in Vienna had increased from 25 to 60 percent. In addition to tourists who were already used to the small beer bottles, the aim was to win over those local consumers who had had enough with a Seidel . The purchase of 300,000 of the new 0.3-liter bottles, which were to come onto the market with a so-called champagne foil coating , was approved by the municipal council in June 1956 at the request of the city councilor for urban enterprises, Richard Nathschläger .

After the Second World War, the brewery was modernized, but the economic successes of the interwar period could not be continued.

On July 14, 1959, city councilor Josef Afritsch submitted a motion to the Vienna city ​​council to sell the brewery of the city of Vienna, including the brewery's shares in the Gabeg and Steffl companies, to a specially founded Austrian limited partnership, despite good offers from abroad . The limited partnership consisted of the following breweries:

The Arbeiter-Zeitung commented on the same day the planned sale of the unloved brewery in agreement. According to the article on the front page, the socialist ruled Vienna had used the income from the brewery for social purposes. Among other things, it was used to finance the radium for the Lainz Hospital in the interwar period .

In the purchase agreement, the city undertook, among other things, to

  • not to build a brewery in the next ten years, not to participate in one, not to deal with the wholesale, sale or bottling of beer and
  • to regulate the liabilities existing on the takeover day, including existing pension costs for former brewery employees.
  • Gut Wallhof as well as the cash holdings and cash balances should remain with the City of Vienna.

Of around 300 employees, 177 were taken over by the new owners. The rest, including 48 tenants, were taken over by the City of Vienna.

The application to sell the brewery of the city of Vienna was accepted on July 17th against the votes of the voting community of the Austrian People's Opposition VO .

The workshop wing and the malt house, which was in operation until 1979, went to the Schwechat brewery. In 1983 the malt house was sold and then used as a grain silo. The rest of the brewery site was acquired by a company that trades in steel pipes.

Beers and sales

The Stadtbräu-Lager , a light lager beer, was the house brand of the brewery of the City of Vienna .

  • In 1930 , a new type of fine beer was launched on the market with Wiener Stadtbräu - Spezial Märzen , or Stadtbräu-Märzen for short .
  • In 1932, a Munich-style dark double malt beer was produced under the registered trademark Stefflbräu .

The beers of the brewery of the city of Vienna were sold over 28 beer defeats. 10 of them were in Vienna, the others in Aspang-Markt , Baden Bruck an der Leitha , Dobermannsdorf , Ebenfurth , Gänserndorf , Groß-Siegharts , Klosterneuburg , Maria-Lanzendorf , Mödling , Neulengbach , Oberlaa , Schwadorf , Sankt Andrä-Wierter , Steyr , Waidhofen an der Ybbs , Weissenbach an der Triesting , Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel and Wiener Neustadt .

In addition, there were special dispensing points in Linz and Berlin where Wiener Stadtbräu was served.

Stadtgut Laxenburg / Wallhof

The Wallhof in Rannersdorf

The land belonging to Gut Wallhof and remaining the property of the City of Vienna will be shared with the

  • Bio-Zentrum Lobau , the
  • Stadtgut Lindenhof in Eggenburg and the
  • Winery Vienna Cobenzl as
  • Stadtgut Laxenburg / Wallhof is managed as an agricultural enterprise of the City of Vienna by the Municipal Department (MA) 49 - Forestry Office and Agricultural Enterprise of the City of Vienna .

literature

  • Festschrift, published on the occasion of the centenary of the Vienna City Building Office , Deutscher Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna, 1935
  • Das neue Wien , Städtewerk, published with the official cooperation of the Municipality of Vienna, Volume IV, Vienna, 1928
  • Brewery of the City of Vienna (without further details)
  • Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial heritage of Lower Austria. History-Technology-Architecture Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77460-0
  • Christian M. Springer, Alfred Paleczny, Wolfgang Ladenbauer: Wiener Bier-Geschichte, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-20437-4 , pp. 218-227

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadler: The industrial legacy ...
  2. ↑ Festschrift, ...
  3. ↑ Brauhaus der Stadt Wien (call number 82067B in the Vienna Library in the City Hall)
  4. ↑ Town hall correspondence of December 3, 1956, sheet 2413
  5. ^ Vienna 1956: reports from June 1956
  6. ↑ Arbeiterzeitung July 14, 1959, page 01
  7. ↑ Town hall correspondence of July 14, 1959, sheet 1454
  8. ^ City hall correspondence of July 17, 1959, sheet 1503
  9. ↑ Stadler: The industrial legacy ...
  10. ↑ Agricultural enterprise of the City of Vienna ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 42.4 ″  N , 16 ° 27 ′ 47.9 ″  E