Eichener brewery

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Eichener Brewery Gebr. Schweisfurth GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding December 5, 1888
resolution October 1, 2009
Reason for dissolution Merger with Krombacher Brauerei Bernhard Schadeberg GmbH & Co. KG
Seat Oak trees
management Managing Directors: Bernhard Schadeberg, Helmut Schaller (2009)
Number of employees 5
Branch brewery
Website www.eichener.de

The main building of the brewery
Entrance to the Struthborn spring

The Eichener Brewery was a brewery in the Kreuztal district of Eichen . The water came from the Struthborn spring.

The brewery, which last belonged to the Krombacher Brewery , was closed at the beginning of June 2014, because according to the Krombacher Brewery, extensive investments would be necessary to continue operating the brewery. Since then, the Eichener Pils and Eichener Gold brands have been produced exclusively by the Rolinck Brewery in Steinfurt , which is also part of Krombacher , until the brand was completely abandoned at the end of 2017.

history

The brewery was founded on December 5, 1888 by Gustav Schweisfurth as Eichener Hammerbräu in Eichen. The name goes back to the former hammer mill (today Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe) located in the immediate vicinity of the brewery. Schweisfurth's ancestors were steel and hammer smiths, who settled in oak in the 19th century. Originally a beer with an original wort of 8 ° P was brewed, which - like the brewery - was called Eichener Hammerbräu .

The brewing operation was severely restricted during the First World War and had to be temporarily shut down at the end of the war due to a lack of raw materials. All five employees of the brewery were drafted into military service. In 1924 the company was expanded. In 1938 the annual output exceeded 7000 hectoliters for the first time. In 1953 the supply of brewing water was ensured through a direct line to the Struthborn tunnel. At an international brewery exhibition in Ghent , the beer was awarded the "Premier Prix 1958" for its good quality. The brewery received a similar award in Brussels in 1962.

After investing in a fully automatic bottle cellar system with a capacity of 24,000 bottles per day in the mid-1950s, the fermentation and storage cellar capacity was expanded to 100,000 hectoliters in 1959/60. In 1962 a new brewing plant was built. In 1967 the packaging was redesigned. Instead of wood were EUR box introduced and the swing top was the bottle caps replaced. In 1987 the barrels were converted to the keg system. The crate and bottle were changed again in 1989. Since then, the beer has been bottled in NRW bottles. In addition to its home area in Siegerland - 80% of the output was sold in the districts of Siegen-Wittgenstein and Olpe - the brand was represented in northeast Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from 1990 onwards .

From March 2002, in addition to its own brands, the Rhenania Alt brand was brewed in the wage brewery for the Krombacher brewery (47,000 hl., 2002) after the original brewery in Krefeld was closed and Krombacher had acquired the rights to the brand in 2001.

At the end of 2002, the Eichener Brewery was sold to the Krombacher Brewery by the owners Karl Wilhelm and Wieland Schweisfurth , as the economic basis was seriously endangered. At that time the brewery had 35 employees and an annual output of 120,000 hectoliters of beer . In the same year, the purchase of the brewing water from the Struthborn spring also ended for economic reasons. In 2003 the brewery had an output of approx. 60,000 hl, of which 40,000 hl were Eichener Pils and 15,000 hl were Eichener Gold. The production of the foreign brand Rhenania Alt amounted to 40,000 hl. 23 people were employed at the beginning of 2004. In 2007 the output was 42,000 hectoliters, the output of the Rhenania Alt brand, which is manufactured in the wage brewery, fell to 18,000 hectoliters. Eichener beer has been bottled in longneck bottles since 2008. With the bottle changeover, there was also a crate changeover. The filling system in oak was not compatible with the new technical parameters of the crate due to the shape of the bottle, so that the filling has since taken place in the neighboring Krombacher brewery. Starting in 2008, the brewery gradually handed over the contract brewing of the Rhenania Alt brand to the Rolinck brewery in Steinfurt, which also belongs to Krombacher . The Eichener Pils was now partly brewed in Steinfurt.

Effective October 1, 2009, the Eichener Brewery Gebr. Schweisfurth GmbH was merged with the Krombacher Brauerei Bernhard Schadeberg GmbH & Co. KG . Due to a major technical defect, production had to be stopped in the second quarter of 2014. At the beginning of June 2014, the Krombacher brewery announced that the Eichener brewery would be closed. According to the Krombacher Brewery, the repair costs and necessary investments in the more than 45 year old brewery would amount to almost one million euros. At the end of the day, only 3–4 employees were employed in the Eichener brewery's premises, as the administration and, since 2008, the bottling have been taken over by the Krombacher brewery. The output was 30,000 hectoliters.

Since the brewery was closed, the Rolinck Brewery in Steinfurt has also taken over the production of the Eichener Gold brand.

Because sales were too low, the Krombacher brewery also stopped producing Eichener beer at the Steinfurt site in December 2017.

Former, no longer manufactured products

  • Eichener Pils : The brewery's main product, a pilsner .
  • Eichener Gold : This beer is milder than the Pils, has a higher original gravity and therefore a higher alcohol content.
  • Eichener Landbier : The Landbier has been brewed since 2003 and should represent the original Siegerland beer.
  • Eichener Schwarzbier : Schwarzbier has been available from the Eichener Brewery since 2004. The recipe dates from the 18th century, but has been changed occasionally.
  • Eichener Zwickelbier : Zwickelbier (or the brewer's beer ) was an unfiltered beer, the yeast particles are retained. Hence the characteristic color and turbidity. It contains many vitamins and minerals . The Eichener Zwickelbier was not sold in bottles, but only in barrels and was therefore only available in restaurants. This product was discontinued in 2007.
  • Dark Lager : A dark lager that should appeal to younger customers in particular.
  • La Cola : A mixed beer drink made from Dark Lager and Cola .
  • Eichener Radler : Also a mixed beer drink from the Eichener Pils and lemonade.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b IHK Siegen: Commercial register announcements October 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 30, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / alt.ihk-siegen.de  
  2. ↑ a b c derwesten.de: Krombacher relocates beer production from the Eichener brewery. Report from June 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c Christiane Hildebrand Stubbe: Rolinck balance sheet 2013: stable location. ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2017 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. . Article dated April 25, 2014, accessed August 21, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dorstenerzeitung.de
  4. ↑ Hardly any demand: Krombacher Brewery provides Eichener Pils with a report in the daily newspaper Westfalenpost from December 13, 2017, accessed on March 18, 2019
  5. ^ "Scrolled back ...", Siegener Zeitung of December 31, 2010, p. 34.
  6. ↑ Franz-J. Weihrauch: Good things from Siegerland: The Eichener Brewery. In: Christian W. Thomsen (ed.): Brewing in Siegerland. Siegen 2005, ISBN 3-923483-46-5 , pp. 74-77, p. 74.
  7. ↑ a b c Franz-J. Weihrauch: Good things from Siegerland: The Eichener Brewery. In: Christian W. Thomsen (ed.): Brewing in Siegerland. Siegen 2005, ISBN 3-923483-46-5 , pp. 74-77, p. 75.
  8. ↑ a b Franz-J. Weihrauch: Good things from Siegerland: The Eichener Brewery. In: Christian W. Thomsen (ed.): Brewing in Siegerland. Siegen 2005, ISBN 3-923483-46-5 , pp. 74-77, p. 76.
  9. ↑ a b Annual Report 2003 . Retrieved June 30, 2014.
  10. ↑ Inge Brühl: Trend reversal through mix ?: Altbier specialty, but not from yesterday. In: Beverage specialist wholesale 8/2003, pp. 20–22, p. 21.
  11. ^ Heinrich Voß: Old, but not from yesterday: The Altbiermarkt: The beer from the Lower Rhine. In: Beverage specialist wholesale 8/2002, pp. 22–26, p. 26.
  12. ↑ Kreuztal monument register: No. 156 Struthbornquelle water extraction system, Eichen district, corridor 5, parcel 150. Retrieved on December 25, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Siegerland-Kurier: 40,000 new boxes in the production cycle. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
  14. ↑ Heinrich Voß: Altbier enriches everyday life: dark top-fermented beer paired with a happy lifestyle. In: Beverage specialist wholesale 11/2007, pp. 23–27, p. 24.
  15. ^ A b Westfälische Rundschau of December 11, 2007: Eichener will be from Krombach from 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
  16. ^ Christiane Hildebrand-Stubbe: Rolinck plans expansion. ( Memento from June 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Article from February 7, 2008.
  17. ↑ Christian Bödding: Rolinck-Brauerei reports 2011: The wage brewer does it. ( Memento from June 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Article from March 27, 2012.
  18. ↑ Eichener Pils is history. December 13, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 32 "  N , 7 ° 58 ′ 30"  E