Gref-Völsing

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Gref-Völsing

logo
legal form GmbH
founding 1894
Seat Frankfurt am Main
management Franziska Scarpello
Number of employees approx. 20
Branch Butchery
Website gref-voelsings.de

The company headquarters in Hanauer Landstrasse
Beef sausage from Gref-Völsing

Gref-Völsing is a fifth generation family-run butcher in Frankfurt am Main . It was founded in 1894 and is now part of the city's popular culture .

Company history

The company was founded on January 18, 1894 by master butcher Karl Gref and his wife Wilhelmine Völsing, on the day of their wedding.

The company has offered boiled sausages made from pure beef since it was founded . These were also intended for Jewish customers who were not allowed to eat pork due to Jewish dietary laws . The butcher's shop was initially located in the Schnurgasse in Frankfurt's old town in the "Haus zum Goldenen Kalb". Karl Gref was able to win gold medals for the product at culinary art exhibitions in 1905, 1906, 1908 and 1911.

The company name was changed in 1911 to "beef sausage factory with electrical operation". In 1913 the company moved to what was then the new industrial area of Frankfurt's Osthafen in Ostend . In the new building at Hanauer Landstrasse 132, the residential building and the business premises were combined. The butcher's shop is still located there today. The products were initially delivered by horse and cart , and in 1928 the company acquired the first automobile .

Fritz and Hermann Gref continued the business from 1937, after Fritz Gref's death in 1951, Hermann Gref's wife took his place. The couple's eldest daughter, Gertrud Berner, took over the management of the company in 1973 before handing it over to her two daughters, Friederike Satvary and Dorothea Wohlberg in 1991. Meanwhile, Franziska Scarpello and Mauro Scarpello are the fifth generation in the company. The family is considered to be one of the “most prominent butcher dynasties” in the city.

Main product

The butcher's shop produces around 7,000 Frankfurt beef sausages every day, and according to the trade press, the product has now become a symbol of Frankfurt's food culture. Around 1000 of these are sold in the in-house snack bar, the rest of the production is sold in restaurants and other sales channels, including in the Kleinmarkthalle in Frankfurt .

Media attention

Due to the nationwide fame of the company, in the past, for example, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation reported on the company on the occasion of the 200th birthday of the " Wiener Würstel ". In September 2010 the Hessischer Rundfunk reported on the operation in its television program in the series “ Hessian family businesses with tradition ”.

literature

  • Gref GmbH (Ed.): 100 years Gref-Völsing: 1894–1994; an anniversary publication, a contemporary document ; Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • Julia Söhngen, Harald Schröder: Conserved time. Traditional Frankfurt shops. Hanau 2009.

Web links

Commons : Gref-Völsing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Fleischer-Zeitung ; 9/2009, p. 10.
  2. ^ On January 18, 1894, Karl Gref and Wilhelmine Völsing married.
  3. ↑ The restaurateur; Edition 4/2005, p. 56.
  4. ↑ Michal Friedlander and Cilly Kugelmann (eds.): Kosher & Co. About food and religion . Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89479-539-9 , pp. 8 ( online [PDF; 48 kB ; accessed on October 20, 2018]).
  5. ↑ AFZ-Journal 1 / 2-2007, p. 3.
  6. ↑ Food Service; Edition 3/2001, p. 114.
  7. ↑ AFZ-Journal 1 / 2-2007, p. 3.
  8. ↑ Allgemeine Fleischer Zeitung; 9/2009, p. 10
  9. ↑ Food Service; Edition 3/2001, p. 114
  10. ↑ Allgemeine Fleischer Zeitung; 5/2005, p. 7
  11. ↑ Allgemeine Fleischer Zeitung, 12/2005, p. 13
  12. ↑ Allgemeine Fleischer Zeitung, 36/2010, p. 13

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 44.3 ″  E