Dortmund Löwenbrauerei
The Dortmunder Löwenbrauerei vorm. Peter Overbeck AG was a brewery in Dortmund .
The origins of the Löwenbrauerei lie in a beer vinegar factory owned by the Overbeck family on Ostenhellweg . After Wilhelm Overbeck , who later became an honorary citizen of Dortmund, took over the business , a brewery was founded around 1840. Around 1845, beer was first brewed in the Bavarian brewing method with bottom-fermented yeast, the Dortmunder Export , in the Löwen brewery . The result was a large brewery that was modern for the time and produced beer using industrial methods such as steam engines and cooling.
In the 1850s the Löwenbrauerei was one of the best-selling breweries in Westphalia and began exporting the beer it produced very early on.
In 1912, on behalf of the "Löwenhof" Baugesellschaft mbH (with the Löwenbrauerei as co-partner), the architects Hugo Steinbach and Paul Lutter built the Hotel Löwenhof on the corner plot of Königswall / Hansastraße , at that time one of the largest restaurants in West Germany. However, it was soon sold and from 1921 served as the administration building of Heinrich August Schulte AG, then also known as the "steel house". Today the building is the seat of the Dortmund Adult Education Center .
After slump in sales in the First World War, the Löwenbrauerei was taken over by the financially strong local competitor Dortmunder Union .