College brewery

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University brewery, Berlin
legal form society
founding 1891
resolution 1981
Reason for dissolution market economy reasons
Seat Berlin-Wedding , Seestrasse 14-15
Branch Beer brewery ( food )

The institute for fermentation trade with experimental and teaching brewery around 1910
Motor car of the experimental and teaching brewery (1900) .jpg
The brewery bar on Amrumer Strasse before 1920
The hall of the brewery bar

The university brewery , originally the experimental and teaching brewery of the Institute for Fermentation Industry , was a brewery in the Berlin district of Wedding . It existed from 1891 to 1981. However, attached to the Research and Training Institute for Brewery (VLB), the brewery was an independent institution. The land and the building of the brewery belonged to the Prussian state and later to the state of Berlin, while the institute for fermentation trades took care of the maintenance, but also received the brewery's income. In addition to the production of many different types of beer, the brewery's brewery tavern was also known, in whose hall and later ballroom events from the ADAC ball to SEW meetings took place.

history

Shortly after the establishment of the Experimental and Educational Institute for Brewery (VLB) in Berlin, plans arose to open a separate experimental and educational brewery for the institution. The costs were shared by the brewing industry and the Prussian state, with the latter also making the property available: Seestrasse / Amrumer Strasse in what was then the Plötzensee estate .

The foundation stone for the first building was laid on September 22nd, 1889. The construction time was 16 months. Brewing began in January 1891. The first Bundesbräu brew was tapped on May 20, 1891. After completion, the building and its furnishings fell to the state, and the Royal Agricultural University of Berlin is named as the owner of the VLB . The brewery initially employed at least five people who resided in one of the buildings: an engineer, a brewmaster, an economist, a laboratory servant, a chemist; she received the free right to use the buildings. Originally a bottom-fermenting and a top-fermenting section were planned, but the top-fermenting section in the original building was not completed.

The brewery on the aforementioned corner property in Berlin-Wedding started operations in 1891. At the end of the 19th century, the property was still in the sparsely populated outskirts of Berlin. Only a few years later, the entire experimental and training institute for brewing was located there. The term university brewery , later university brewery , came up around 1896/1897 and was also used in the external presentation of the brewery itself in the following decades.

The first expansion and extension took place by 1908; Above all, the facilities for top-fermented beer, a new brewhouse and a new boiler house , and for the first time an own malt house and a ballroom for larger events were built. The university brewery increased its capacity by 1928 and in 1928 reached the maximum in its history with 48,000 hectoliters produced.

A bombing raid in 1943 at the end of the Second World War destroyed a large part of the buildings. The existing technical systems were outsourced to various Berlin breweries that were members of the VLB. In 1946 the brewery resumed operations on an improvised basis, and by 1947 it had produced 10,000 hectoliters of thin beer . The buyers were the French armed forces in Berlin.

Between 1954 and 1958 the brewery was rebuilt, including the reconstruction of the cellar, malt house and ballroom. In 1958, the much smaller study brewery on the top floor of the university brewery also started producing beer. This facility was available to students for their own trials and experiments. It then moved several times, but survived the closure of the university brewery and still exists today (as of autumn 2015).

At the beginning of the 1970s, the operators found modernization too costly, so in 1972 the malt house was initially shut down and the malt was bought in. In the 1970s, sales of college beer fell, while at the same time, due to the oil crisis , among other things , costs rose. Several modernization commissions did not come to a conclusion, so that even a loan from the city of Berlin for the modernization of the site, which was promised in 1978, was no longer used. In March 1981 the university brewery was finally closed completely.

The last relic of the Hchschulbrauerei at the guild house of the Berlin brewers

beer

Special glass for Berliner Weisse

In keeping with the character of a research institution, the university brewery produced many different types of beer that were only regionally widespread (such as Grätzer , Porter ) or were entirely experimental. It advertised with its own brand, the Hochschul-Bräu , and the slogan "Hochgenuss!"

building

the former brewhouse

The brewhouse is a Gothic brick building. Erected at the beginning of the 20th century, it was badly destroyed in World War II and then rebuilt in a simplified manner. Laboratories of the German Heart Center have been located in the former brewhouse since 2000 .

The cellar building with a study brewery was built at the beginning of the 20th century and was a steel frame construction . Originally the fermentation and storage cellar of the university brewery, the bottling plants and other storage rooms were located here. Since the end of the university brewery, the study brewery has been using one floor. A special feature was the boxing ring on the ground floor. In the 2000s, the Berlin Senate decided to extensively rebuild and renovate the VLB Berlin, but the winery was to be demolished.

The malt house was built before 1906, renovated between 1957 and 1960 and the experimental liquor factory was added. The round stair tower is characteristic of the partially clinkered building. At the beginning of the 21st century, the building was mainly used by the Prussian Spirits Manufactory and until 2017 by the VLB's packaging testing facility. The VLB canteen is on the side of the building facing away from Seestrasse.

The ballroom was rebuilt in 1956. Later, the Joe dance club in Wedding and finally the Krahl disco moved there . The event building has also been approved for demolition, which was completed by the end of 2015. Numerous events had taken place here in the decades of its existence. Organizations such as the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin and the German Peace Society , the Jehovah's Witnesses , carnival associations were among the users, even an ADAC Ball Berlin took place here.

After the end of operation

Cellar building

After the university brewery had ceased operations in 1981, the brand name lived on for a few years. In 1980 the Hochschul-Brauerei GmbH was founded , which in 1982 was completely sold to the Engelhardt brewery in Berlin . However, the Hochschul-Brauerei GmbH dissolved this in 1984. So the name finally disappeared from the Berlin brewing industry.

The buildings of the university brewery were still partially used by the VLB. The brewhouse building was leased in 1999 to the German Heart Center , which now houses laboratories there.

In September 2019 the demolition of the cellar building of the university brewery began.

literature

  • Norbert Klostermann, Hans-J. Manger , Manfred Staruss: The history of the university brewery. Series of publications by the Association for Brewery History Berlin e. V. CD dedicated to the anniversary celebration of 125 years of VLB
  • VLB Berlin: The University Brewery (1891-1981)

Web links

Commons : Hochschulbrauerei Berlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Horst Schmitt to Herbert Häber, December 9, 1976 , accessed on November 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ 100 years of experimental and training institute for breweries in Berlin (VLB). Editor Hans Günter Schulze-Berndt , VLB: Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-921690-25-0 , p. 16
  3. ↑ Seestrasse> Trial and Teaching Brewery . In: Berlin address book , 1893.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j VLB Berlin: Die Hochschul-Brauerei (1891-1981) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vlb-berlin.org
  5. ^ Suburbs> Plötzensee> Seestrasse . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1901, V, p. 153 (The brewery is on Seestrasse [still without a house number] at the corner of Amrumstrasse ).
  6. ↑ Markus Reitzig: III Berlin-Wedding in the time of high industrialization (1885-1914) - a contemporary district analysis , accessed November 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ Sectors> Breweries . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1940, Part II, p. 63.
  8. ↑ Senate Department for Urban Development: Call for tenders: New building of the training center for the experimental and teaching institute for brewery , July 2009 p. 30
  9. ↑ a b Senate Department for Urban Development: Call for tenders: New building of the training center of the experimental and teaching institute for brewery , July 2009 p. 31
  10. ↑ https://taz.de/!289159/
  11. ^ German Peace Society meets ; New Germany March 14, 1956.
  12. ↑ Chronicle of Jehovah's Witnesses Berlin , accessed on November 23, 2015.
  13. ↑ Hans Schubert: Carnival customs in Brandenburg and Berlin - from the beginning to the present BWV Verlag, 2012 ISBN 3-8305-2752-7 , p. 143
  14. ↑ Berlin ADAC Ball is after more than 100 years of history , Berliner Morgenpost July 9, 2012
  15. ↑ https://www.vlb-berlin.org/news/AbrissHochschulbrauerei

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 43.4 "  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 35.1"  E