Hofbrauhaus Berchtesgaden

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Hofbrauhaus Berchtesgaden, brewery and administration

The Hofbrauhaus Berchtesgaden is a brewery in Berchtesgaden ( Upper Bavaria / Berchtesgadener Land district ). Mentioned for the first time in 1610, it was the Hofbräuhaus of the prince-provost of Berchtesgaden from 1645 until the secularization in 1803 and subsequently owned by monarchical reigns until 1808 . It has been a private company ever since.

history

Up until the founding of a brewery on its own grounds, the prince provost's office in Berchtesgaden sourced its beer from the Hofbräu Kaltenhausen in the prince-archbishopric of Salzburg . The Pfister brewery was first mentioned in an agreement from 1610. In 1645, Prince Provost Ferdinand von Bayern (1577–1650) took it over and expanded it into the Hofbräuhaus, which was supposed to provide the population with high-quality beer after a 1614 by the The investigation commissioned by the Prince had revealed that predominantly imported wine was consumed. The beer output was around 7000 hectoliters. The authorization for the further use of the prefix Hof in the company name is derived from the princely connections to the brewery .

Hofbrauhaus Berchtesgaden, Bräustüberl

With the end of the principality in 1803, the brewery became the property of the subsequent reigns. In the ownership of Austria since 1805, it was auctioned for privatization in 1808 . The contract was awarded to the hop trader Anton Wurm, in whose family the brewery remained until 1833. Afterwards Johann B. Haller and Severin Wannerstorfer became owners. In 1840 Wannerstorfer also took over Haller's share, and the Hofbrauhaus remained in the possession of this family until 1970, although the name changed several times due to female succession. Between 1906 and 1907, the brewery and Bräustüberl were rebuilt at the traditional location under Rudolf Kriss senior ; they have been almost completely preserved to this day. His son Rudolf Kriß junior took over the company in 1937. He sold it to Thurn und Taxis in 1970 and thus ended a more than 130-year-old family tradition - although the company was initially guaranteed to continue under the old company name "Hofbrauhaus Berchtesgaden Rudolf Kriss", today (as of April 2020) it operates under " Hofbrauhaus Berchtesgaden GmbH ".

In 1980 the Hofbrauhaus Berchtesgaden employed 66 people and had 22 own and leased restaurants. From 1989 to 2008 the brewery belonged to the Spaten-Löwenbräu group . The Spaten-Löwenbräu Group was again taken over in 2003 by the Belgian Interbrew Group. In 2004, Interbrew merged with AmBev to form InBev .

Since the end of 2008, the Hofbräuhaus no longer belongs to the brewery group, but has three new shareholders, Sedlmayr Grund und Immobilien KGaA, its personally liable partner and brewing entrepreneur Jobst Kayser-Eichberg and the Berchtesgaden brewery operations manager, Josef Stangassinger. Sedlmayr Grund und Immobilien KGaA held 49% of the capital in 2016.

Surname

As a state-owned brewery, it was given the prefix Hof , which has remained in the Hofbrauhaus Berchtesgaden to this day . Contrary to the official spelling, which is not typical for the region, it is sometimes also referred to as Hofbräuhaus in line with regional usage .

Companies

The brewery alone, which offers a complete range, including non-alcoholic beverages, currently has around 30 employees and trains them. The brewery produces around 25,000 hectoliters of beer in four standard types such as Helles and Pils as well as special brews such as B. the "anniversary beer" brewed together with the merchandise, such as non-alcoholic beverages, leave the company annually around 55,000 hectoliters of beverages (as of July 2000). The main sales area are the municipalities of Berchtesgaden, Bischofswiesen , Marktschellenberg , Ramsau and Schönau am Königssee .

The Bräustüberl attached to the brewery is operated by a tenant.

literature

  • Franz Hanser: History of the Berchtesgaden Hofbrauhaus . In: Manfred Hartmann and Albert Scharger: Berchtesgaden in old times . Berchtesgaden, 1985, pp. 104–113 (main source)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973, pp. 54, 55.
  2. ↑ Hofbrauhaus not only expanded, but "rebuilt" according to A. Helm: Berchtesgaden through the ages . P. 55.
  3. ↑ Manfred Feulner : Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 157 f.
  4. ↑ Manfred Hartmann and Albert Scharger: Berchtesgaden in old times . P. 106.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f history , online at hofbrauhaus-berchtesgaden.de
  6. ↑ a b Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Supplementary volume I, Association for Local Studies d. Berchtesgadener Landes, Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-87490-528-4 , p. 112.
  7. ↑ Imprint of the website of the Hofbrauhaus Berchtesgaden, online at hofbrauhaus-berchtesgaden.de
  8. ↑ cw / UK: InBev sells Hofbrauhaus Berchtesgaden on November 29, 2008, Berchtesgadener Anzeiger from December 8, 2008
  9. ↑ Sedlmayr KGaA Annual Report 2015/16 , p. 63 , accessed on April 1, 2017
  10. ↑ DM: Gläserklang zum Bläserklang , Berchtesgadener Anzeiger of July 18, 2000

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