Hannen brewery
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1725 |
| resolution | 2005 |
| Reason for dissolution | renaming |
| Seat | Mönchengladbach , Germany |
| management | Carlsberg Germany Markengesellschaft mbH
Board of Directors: Sebastian Holtz (Chairman) |
| Branch | brewery |
The Hannen Brewery was a former brewery based in Mönchengladbach specializing in Altbier , which was taken over by the Danish Carlsberg Group in 1988 . In the mid-1980s, the largest Altbier brewery in Germany with around 1 million hectoliters of Altbier production no longer has its own brewery and has its "Hannen Alt" and "Gatzweiler Alt" products brewed by another brewery. The annual production in 2004 was around 60,000 hectoliters Hannen Alt and 90,000 hectoliters Gatzweiler Alt and is now even lower.
history
In 1725 a Hausmann brewery was mentioned in Willich . It was the oldest of the Willich breweries Hausmann, Schmitz and Dicker, which merged in 1917 to form the United Willicher Breweries GmbH . In 1920 they took over the Hannen brewery in Korschenbroich . The company, based in Willich, renamed itself from United Willicher Breweries and Hannen Korschenbroich GmbH Willich to Hannen Brewery and in the following decades achieved a dominant position in the Altbier market.
In the early 1960s, both the areas in the middle of Korschenbroich and Willich became too small for the breweries. The management decided in 1964 to move the breweries from Korschenbroich and Willich to Mönchengladbach in the Neuwerk district . In 1968 the construction of the new brewery in Neuwerk began. In 1975 production in Korschenbroich and Willich was shut down, and administration was relocated to Neuwerk a short time later. In 1986 large parts of the former brewery were demolished.
Since the late 1970s, the Hannen brewery has been losing market share and the company's economic situation has deteriorated. In 1988 the Hannen brewery was one of the first German breweries to be taken over by a foreign company, the Danish Carlsberg Group. In 1999 the Hannen Brauerei GmbH bought the trademark rights to the former Düsseldorf "Gatzweilers Alt". On July 6, 2003, the Neuwerker brewery was sold to the Oettinger Brewery and traded under the name of “Brauerei Mönchengladbach, ZN der Brauerei Oettinger GmbH”. Since then, Oettinger has continued to brew and fill Hannen Alt in the former brewery for a few years.
The former administration building of the brewery in Korschenbroich is now used by the city's cultural office. In the former buildings of the brewery in Willich there is a supermarket, a shopping mall and the municipal utility.
Trivia
- Heinrich Hausmann , the co-owner of the brewery, built up an important collection of German and European art from the 19th and 20th centuries in the 1960s and 1970s. This was auctioned at Van Ham in 2008 .
- In 1968, the then owner of the brewery, Günther Dicker, began to pay some of his workforce with “replacement bills”. The reason for this should have been that the wives of the employees should not have full insight into their earnings. This action was ended after the Bundesbank threatened to punish it.
Web links
- Hannen Alt . Carlsberg Germany Markengesellschaft mbH. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
- Spiegel article from June 10, 1968 / Hannen Brewery
- Internet link to Hannen Brewery
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.carlsbergdeutschland.de/service/pages/impressum.aspx
- ↑ a b c In: Welt am Sonntag from 08/28/05, Hannen Brewery
- ^ In: Internet link to Hannen Brewery .
- ↑ Internet pages of the city of Korschenbroich.
- ↑ In: Spiegel, June 10, 1968 . In: Article Hannen Brewery / replacement money .