Ettaler monastery brewery

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The Ettaler monastery brewery is part of the Ettaler Klosterbetriebe GmbH , the commercial area of the Ettal monastery in Upper Bavaria .

history

From the 15th to the 16th century the Ettal Abbey ran a brewery in nearby Oberammergau . In 1609 Leonhard Hilpolt ( Abbot from 1590 to 1615) had the Ettalische Brewery in Oberammergau relocated to Ettal . A new brewery building was erected within the monastery complex. Bills from this period also show that, in addition to beer, the Ettal monastery liqueur was made by the monks of the abbey as early as 1609.

There is documentary evidence of a concession from Prince Maximilian Pfalzgraf bei Rhein, Duke in Upper and Lower Bavaria from April 11, 1618 , which officially grants the monastery permission to brew and sell beer. Under Benedict II Eckart (abbot from 1668 to 1675), a new brewery building was built because the old one was no longer able to accommodate. This too was soon too small and in 1708 another new building was started under Romuald (abbot from 1675 to 1697).

In the course of the secularization of 1803, the brewery was initially operated at state expense. On December 26, 1809, the company was sold to the General Postal Directorate Josef von Elbling. In 1856 the monastery property was sold to the counts of the von Pappenheim family , who undertook major renovations in the brewery.

On November 5, 1898, Reichsrat Baron Theodor von Cramer-Klett acquired the facility, which he then sold to the Scheyern Abbey , thereby enabling Ettal to be re-established as a monastery. After the re-establishment of the monastery on August 6, 1900, the brewery again became the property of the monastery under Abbot Willibald Wolfsteiner and was modernized technically and structurally. From the 1990s, the monastery began to sell its beers on a larger scale nationwide. 2011 wheat beer division of the brewery under the name was Benedictine wheat beer into a separate company with the participation of Bitburger removed brewing group and the amount of beer produced by consulting spare capacity of Licher brewery from 2000 to 20,000 hectoliters in wheat beer increased.

Ettal monastery businesses

In addition to the brewery, the monastery also maintains the areas of monastery hotel, liqueur manufacture, herbarium , monastery shops, gardening, agriculture, power generation and the museums in Ettal under the company "Ettaler Klosterbetriebe GmbH" . In addition, the monastery operations have a 41% share in the Laaber-Bergbahn Oberammergau. In the 2000s, this combination got increasingly into financial difficulties. In 2013, the monastery businesses posted a turnover of around 3.78 million euros and a loss of 433,000 euros.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Ettaler Klosterbetriebe GmbH, annual financial statements as of December 31, 2013 in the electronic Federal Gazette