Ernst Bauer family brewery
The family brewery Ernst Bauer KG was a private brewery in Leipzig . The logo showed the tower of the New Town Hall .
history
The brewing rights were of Frederick Augustus issued, King of Saxony on 10 January 1827, the brewery was under the name of the brewery to the town of Altenburg, Traug. Heinr. Reinwarth , founded and had its seat on Peterssteinweg / corner of today's Beethovenstraße.
In 1852 they moved into the Täubchenweg location in Leipzig. Since then, traditional brewing methods have been used here in listed buildings. The company traded as the Bauer Brewery from 1881, initially as the Ernst Louis Bauer Brewery , and from 1921 as the Ernst Bauer KG Brewery . The restaurant on the brewery premises on the corner of Täubchenweg and Short Street (since 2001, Spohrstraße) has been popular since time immemorial. The first bottled beer was bottled in 1904. In the same year the first and in 1911 the second large steam engine with a coupled Linde refrigeration machine was put into operation.
In 1935 a tower-like brewhouse was built, which became characteristic of the brewery's structural appearance and was later to appear in its name.
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In the GDR the brewery was nationalized in 1972 and continued to operate under the name VEB Brauerei Turmquell and from 1974 as VEB Turmbräu Leipzig. In 1984 it was incorporated into the VEB Beverage Combine in Leipzig .
After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the brewery was re-privatized in 1992 and now operated under the name Leipziger Familienbrauerei Ernst Bauer GmbH .
Every single beer brew was still stored separately in fermentation vats for several weeks in deep, cold cellars after the main fermentation . The brewery also had its own well in the Mulde valley . Every year at the end of September it was a traditional experience when the Bauer brewery drove up to the old town hall in a historic horse and carriage loaded with wooden barrels to tap the first bock beer of the new season with a prominent Leipzig man .
In 2008, production on Täubchenweg in Leipzig was stopped by the Leipzig Health Department due to the presence of geogenic sulfur ions in the brewing water. Since then, production has been continued as a contract brewery in the Hartmannsdorfer brewery of the Mittweidaer Löwenbräu. In 2010 Löwenbräu finally acquired all rights to brand names and recipes.
The owner and managing director Hans Bauer, who died in 2009, represented the eighth generation of the beer-brewing family.
Products
In addition to various types of beer , the brewery also produced non-alcoholic beverages such as Quick-Cola and red Fassbrause . The latter was a kind of raspberry lemonade. After this product disappeared from the market after reunification , but demand was still there, the company was the first to pick up the product again and offer it on the Saxon market.
Continued use of the building
In 2011, an investor acquired the site with the intention of building apartments on it. The old buildings such as the brewhouse and cooling tower buildings should not disappear. In the four listed existing buildings of the former brewery, a total of 43 apartments with underground parking in the former beer cellar and green areas and gardens in the courtyard are to be built. The renovation started in 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Göbel: Bauer Brewery - then and now. In: Leipziger Osten, No. 2, Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-930433-00-1 , p. 56 ff.
- ↑ Historical brewery directory Germany of the federal states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia from approx. 1900 of the IBV Internationaler Brauereikultur-Verband eV , 1995, IBV-Eigenverlag, Stuttgart
- ↑ LVZ of August 31, 2011, p. 20