Hofbrauhaus Coburg
The Hofbrauhaus Coburg had been a brewery in Coburg since 1858 , which was closed in 1982. After a major fire in 1999, the listed, renovated main building is used by the Coburg University , among others .
Beginnings
In 1856 there was the first initiative to build another brewery in Coburg, by then there were already six. The Actien-Bierbrauerei Coburg was founded in 1857, Duke Ernst II (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) was one of the shareholders. The first beer output followed a year later. In 1886 the company was renamed Coburger Bierbrauerei AG, from January 31, 1912 the brewery had permission from Duke Carl Eduard (Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha) to use the name Hofbrauhaus Coburg AG. During this time, beer production under the name Coburger Hofbräu was in full swing, around 100,000 hectoliters were brewed annually. Around ten percent of this was exported to the USA as Coburg Bavarian Beer . It is believed that this is where the name of the beer type "American" comes from. Some of the smaller breweries in the city and in the district were taken over by the Hofbrauhaus, such as the Heinrich Grasser brewery on Neuer Weg in 1917 and the club brewery on Hahnweg in 1918. In addition, the brewery maintained a larger beer hall in Mohrenstrasse from 1891, which later became an important venue in Coburg as Hofbräugaststätten with two halls and a total of 1638 approved places until it was demolished in 1971.
The big Coburg clubs celebrated carnival in the great hall. Various artists such as Max Greger and Udo Jürgens appeared there. But political events also took place. On October 14, 1922, Adolf Hitler was the main speaker in the great hall on the occasion of German Day . On December 5, 1929, Duke Carl Eduard and his wife attended an NSDAP election campaign event in the Hofbräu restaurants, also with Hitler as a speaker. The next event with Hitler followed on January 18, 1931.
In 1921 the Hofbrauhaus Coburg AG was taken over by Paulaner AG in Munich. The largest brewery in Coburg had a maximum of 120 employees and 150,000 hectoliters of beer.
Change and major fire
After the Second World War, economic factors and the inner-German border led to a drastic reduction in beer sales. Production figures fell, and in November 1981 production ceased after 123 years. Paulaner brewed Coburger Hofbräu beers until 1990. In 1982 Hofbrau AG was transformed from a production company into a real estate and sales company of Paulaner AG. There were efforts to renovate the property and use it as a district office, but the demolition of all buildings was also discussed. On February 13, 1999, there was a major fire caused by welding work; in the night the roof of the main building was on fire. The fire brigade needed over 35 hours to bring the fire under control; The fire caused property damage of more than a million marks. However, the massive stone building was not too badly damaged. The owner at the time, Bayerische Immobilien AG , in which the real estate assets of Hacker-Pschorr Bräu AG are combined, decided to rebuild and equip the Coburg service and design center. The building was gutted and restructured inside.
Todays use
After the completion of the main building with around 5900 m² of usable space, the Coburg University of Applied Sciences moved in as a tenant in October 1999 and uses the building with the design department, courses such as interior design and integrated product design are offered. About 450 students and professionals work in the building and the smaller outbuildings. Smaller companies and design workshops are located on other floors. The upper floors of the main building and the former brewhouse with a data center are used by the company Crealogix BaaS GmbH & Co KG. The software company with around 100 employees moved into the office space with its metal structures when it first moved in in 1999. The Coburg Design Days took place in the building for many years and attracted thousands of visitors from all over the world. At the end of September 2012, a new building was inaugurated on the site for the Coburg University of Applied Sciences, next to the Alte Darre, which mostly stands on the vaulted cellars. The investor Peter Klappan acquired the property in 2010; In 2012, the university buildings were sold on to the issuing house Paribus Capital.
architecture
The brewery, which was built in 1858, was continuously expanded to a total of 22 buildings until 1937. The main building was built according to plans by Georg Rothbart and was enlarged in 1868 and 1895. Behind the fourteen- axis main building with the malt kiln built in 1895 and divided by a central projectile and two external projections, the old brewhouse and the malt barn from 1868 as well as parts of the brewhouse from 1937 have been preserved. The warehouses with ice and fermentation cellars from 1882 as well as the vaulted cellars of the warehouse from 1872 and the barrel hall still stand on the former brewery site. At the former entrance is the master brewer's house of the Hofbrauhaus, built in 1885 and extended by an attic in 1907. The quadruple, three-axis, cuboid building has a side projection with a strongly accentuated triangular gable on each side of the house.
literature
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: Monuments in Bavaria. City of Coburg . Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X .
- Wolfgang Vatke: Coburg breweries city and country . Veste-Verlag Roßteutscher, Coburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-925431-03-6 .
- Christian Boseckert: The Coburger Hofbrauhaus - The oldest industrial building in the Vestestadt was 150 years old . In: Coburger Geschichtsblätter , 17th volume, issue 1–2, 2009, ISSN 0947-0336 .
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Hofbrauhaus Coburg in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Information about the building
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Vatke: Coburg breweries city and country. Veste-Verlag Roßteutscher, Coburg 2008, p. 33
- ^ Government Gazette for the Duchy of Coburg, January 31, 1912
- ↑ Jürgen Erdmann: Coburg, Bavaria and the Reich 1918–1923 , p. 105.
- ↑ Chronicle of the Paulaner Brewery
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 12.7 ″ N , 10 ° 57 ′ 27.4 ″ E