Haldengut
Haldengut is a Swiss beer brand and a former company from Winterthur. Originally produced in the beer brewery of the same name in Winterthur , the beer is now brewed in Chur and distributed by Heineken Switzerland. Haldengut is still strongly anchored in the Winterthur region today. The range includes Haldengut Lager, a Swiss lager and Haldenkrone, a Swiss special beer.
Haldengut is one of the last Swiss breweries to have a brewery team with six Shire horses. In the city of Winterthur, beer is delivered with a couple every other week .
history
The brewery was founded in 1843 as the Haldenberg Brewery by Ferdinand Ernst , the owner of the "Haldengut" farm on the southern slope of the Lindberg in Winterthur. The brewery building was built by the architect Leonhard Zeugheer in the previous two years . In 1851 the brewery took on its current name. When the founder of the brewery died in 1875, his son Hans Ernst and Johann Georg Schoellhorn formed the general partnership "Ernst & Schoellhorn". In 1888, the brewery took over the Bavaria brewery in St. Gallen and the Tivoli brewery in Geneva and united them under the newly founded joint stock company "United Swiss Breweries". In 1890 Johann Georg Schoellhorn died and his son Fritz Schoellhorn took over the business in his place. He sold the Tivoli brewery again and closed the Bavaria brewery and from then on needed it as a depot.
From 1933 the company was run by Fritz Schoellhorn's sons Georg and Kurt in the third generation and in the fourth generation by Jürg Schoellhorn, Georg's son. Haldenburg's signet, the “Rössli”, a stylized brewery horse , was designed in 1950 by a Swiss graphic artist. Since then, it has been inextricably linked with Haldengut and the brewery. In the 1960s, Haldengut wrote advertising history with the slogan "End well - Haldengut". This slogan was implemented in a humorous way on numerous beer coasters with stories.
In 1971 the brewery took over the Elm mineral springs , but these were sold in full to Feldschlösschen in 1983. In 1979 the Falken brewery from Baden was taken over. In 1989 the Haldengut brewery merged with Calanda Bräu , and in 1994 both breweries were taken over by Heineken . In 1999 Heineken stopped brewing in Winterthur and relocated it to Chur , ending the brewing history of Haldengut in Winterthur.
Web links
- Website
- Haldengut Brewery in Winterthur Glossary.