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Former Falkenkrug brewery in Detmold

The Falkenkrug is a brewery that was closed down in 1972 , the building of which was erected on a steep slope in the Spork-Eichholz district of Detmold and where the Lippe-Detmold Waldorf School is now located.

history

Rock cellar

Count Hermann Adolf from Lippe approved his court trumpeter Johann Winter, known as Falco, to open a pitcher near the present brewery building in 1662 ( Krugrecht ). At first he was not allowed to brew his own beer, but had to buy the drink in Detmold or Horn . In 1673 he was granted the privilege of brewing beer from the succeeding Count Simon Heinrich . The Falkenkrug restaurant with an attached brewery, named after him, was until the end of the 19th century the most popular excursion restaurant for the Detmold population.

In 1808 the heavily indebted jug came into the possession of Simon Gausmann. Gausmann built a bowling alley and made the pitcher profitable again. After his death in 1828, his son Simon August took over the business. Simon August had completed an apprenticeship as a beer brewer in Bavaria and apparently got to know rock cellars for storing beer here . When he returned, he began digging a system of cellars beneath the property in the 1830s, the largest of which was 40 meters long, 8 meters wide and 5 meters high. In the cellar vaults, even in summer, the temperature did not exceed 9 °. In addition, an ice cellar was created, which was filled in the winter months. Simon August died on November 19, 1856, he did not see the construction of a new brewery that he had planned as early as 1841.

His wife married again, and with her husband Karl Schmitz she realized the deceased's plans. The building complex of the Falkenkrug brewery in Spork-Eichholz was built between 1857 and 1880. From the Werre valley you can see the mighty, square malt house and the old brewing , brewing and residential building, all overlooked by a factory chimney. A new brewhouse, a machine house and an ice house were added to the rear of the malt house facing Blomberger Straße in 1911 . On the north side of the roof of the new brewhouse, a stone falcon can be seen with a jug in its claws. The no longer used storage cellars served as a shelter from aerial bombs during the Second World War .

In the 1960s, the Herford brewery "Felsenkeller", previously a shareholder, took over the Falkenkrug brewery completely. The beer production in Detmold was stopped in 1972, the fate of the building ensemble was uncertain for a long time.

The building documents the work and production methods in brewing in the 19th and 20th centuries and is part of the local history of the city of Detmold. The Falkenkrug impresses with its special architecture, which is reminiscent of a factory castle. The city of Detmold offers guided tours through the building. The brewery property was partially renovated at the end of the 1980s and a Waldorf school was opened on the premises.

literature

Web links

Commons : Falkenkrug  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Preuß : The architectural antiquities of the Lippe country . Meyersche Hofbuchhandlung, Detmold 1873, p. 25 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Christian Kuhnke: Lippe Lexikon . Detmold 2000, ISBN 3-935454-00-7 .
  3. ^ A b Heinz Lücke: The brewing industry in Lippe . In: Heimatland Lippe . No. 7 . Detmold 1985, p. 210-212 .
  4. ↑ Falkenkrug Brewery. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 16, 2010 ; Retrieved August 30, 2010 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 55.3 "  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 51.7"  E