Glückauf Brewery AG
The Glückauf Brewery was a brewery in Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf that produced from 1887 to 1980.
On May 16, 1895, the "Glückauf" Brauerei Aktiengesellschaft emerged from the limited partnership brewery "Glückauf", Fritz Schulte im Hofe, Pokorny & Co. founded around 1886 . The brewery's production facilities were located on today's Leithestrasse (house numbers 63–75 and 72–84). The older part of the business east of the street (with administration and director's villa) belonged to the municipality of Ückendorf, which was incorporated in Gelsenkirchen in 1903, the younger part to the west of the street was on a parcel that belonged to the municipality of Leithe until 1926 . The original building was built in 1886/1887; Between 1907 and 1915, the well-known Gelsenkirchen architect Josef Franke carried out various extensions and conversions, including the spent grain and drying plant (1907), loading hall and main gate (1910), administration building (1911) and the conversion of the director's villa (1914–1915).
In 1928 the Glückauf-Brauerei AG entered into an interest group with the Dortmund Ritter-Brauerei AG , which remained the main shareholder for decades. The dividends guaranteed in this contract for the Glückauf shares and the generally declining sales brought financial problems with them in the course of the global economic crisis ; in order to reduce costs, part of the Glückauf beer was produced for the first time in a wage brewery at Ritter in Dortmund in the 1930/1931 financial year at the latest .
A domination agreement was concluded with the Schultheiss brewery in 1971. In 1980 the Glückauf brewery was incorporated into the Brau & Brunnen AG group and operations in Gelsenkirchen were shut down on March 27, 1980.
With a maximum annual production of 180,000 hectoliters, it was at times one of the largest breweries in the Ruhr area .
All production buildings were demolished after 1980, and part of the site was built on with a large residential complex. Only the neighboring former restaurant of the brewery, the so-called Glückaufkeller on the ground floor of a stately apartment building on the corner of Leithestrasse and Halfmannsweg, built around 1909, also based on a design by Josef Franke.
Literature / sources
- Ingrid Bauert-Keetman: The History of the Glückauf Brewery. (unpublished typescript?)
- Architecture Colloquium Bochum (Ed.): Josef Franke (1876–1944). 163 designs for the 20th century. Klartext, Essen 1999, ISBN 3-88474-776-2 . ( passim )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handbook of German Stock Companies , 34th edition 1932, p. 1025.
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 31.8 " N , 7 ° 6 ′ 26.1" E