Franconian Brewery Museum
The Franconian Brewery Museum in Bamberg is a museum about Franconia and its beer with a focus on the former Benedictine monastery brewery on the Michelsberg , in whose premises the museum is also housed. Over 1400 exhibits are exhibited on an area of 900 m², which vividly portray the tradition of brewers, maltsters and butters in the region.
The museum was realized through the voluntary work of the Fränkisches Brauereimuseum e. V. It is also one of four museums on the topic of beer along the Franconian Beer Route .
collection
The museum's collection focuses on historical equipment and machines that are needed for brewing beer . In terms of content, the museum is divided into different areas: brewhouse , cold store , fermentation cellar , storage cellar , filter cellar , bottling and barrel filling, ice cellar , malting and butchery department and hop cellar. The collection is supplemented by old documents, certificates, enamel signs, bottles and jugs . The integration of the exhibits into a centuries-old brewery makes the exhibition extremely authentic.
building
The museum is integrated into the production rooms of the former St. Michaelsberg monastery brewery . The Benedictine monastery was founded in 1015 by the first Bamberg bishop , Eberhard , and gradually expanded in the following centuries. In 1742, construction work began on the prelate building, which frames the monastery , based on plans by Balthasar Neumann . Just four years later, Abbot Ludwig Dietz consecrated the completed north wing, which also housed the brewery. With the secularization , the entire complex was transferred to the Citizens Hospital Foundation and has been in the hands of the city ever since.
Brewing history
It is unclear when brewing began in the Benedictine monastery on Michaelsberg. From a document of 1122 shows that the Bamberg Bishop Otto the Holy (1102-1139) the governor of Gestungshausen "dimidiam carratam cerevisiae" and thus the right to brew beer conceded. It can be assumed that beer was already being prepared in the monastery brewery at this time . This is also evidenced by the monastery's own agricultural areas, on which barley , wheat and hops were cultivated for self-sufficiency . When the monastery was dissolved in 1804, the brewery was leased to bourgeois brewers. The (half) brothers Georg and Michael Peßler were the last owners to manage the brewery before the brewery was closed in 1969.
History of the museum
After the brewing operations in the former Benedictine abbey on the Michaelsberg had ceased in 1969, they met on June 1, 1979 for the founding meeting of the non-profit association Fränkisches Brauereimuseum in Bierstadt Bamberg e. V.
The aim of the 32 founding members was to present and maintain the tradition of brewers, maltsters and Büttner . To this end, numerous documents and equipment were collected in the following years and made available to the public in order to create a kind of information center for everything to do with beer. Two years later, on May 1st, 1981, the association managed to rent the former brewery premises. In July 1984 the renovation and remodeling of the rooms began. On May 3, 1986, the museum was partially opened with the special exhibition Beer and Philately .
The association currently has around 400 members.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '36 " N , 10 ° 52' 33" E