YES Gilka
| YES Gilka | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Limited partnership |
| founding | 1836 |
| Seat | Berlin, Kettwig |
| Branch | spirits |
JA Gilka is a traditional Berlin company that is known for its caraway brandy " Kaiser-Kümmel ". The company's origins go back to the 19th century.
history
The company was founded by Carl Joseph Aloys Gilka (1812–1873) at Schützenstrasse 9 in Berlin-Mitte . Gilka came from Moravia . He had entered into an advantageous marriage in 1836; the dowry of his wife, Auguste Henriette geb. Schmidt, at an amount of 15,000 thalers, served as the basis for founding the distillation, rum and fuel factory . He produced the alcohol for beverage production in a distillery in Düppel . His company bore the initials of his second and third first name with family name.
Gilka's best-known product was “Kaiser-Kümmel”, a lightly sweetened caraway brandy made from caraway seed oil, sugar and alcohol, which contains 38% alcohol and has been produced since 1836. According to some sources it was drunk at the court in Berlin, but certainly at the Viennese court.
Well-known members of the Gilka family were later the Kommerzienrat Theodor Gilka (1841-1907). He lived in Berlin at Tiergartenstrasse 34a and owned several country estates, including the Dessow manor , on which there was a brewery and a distillery. Theodor and Hermann Gilka was for their products to due to the high quality kuk purveyor appointed.
Theodor Gilka's son, Arthur Gilka (1875–1937), was a councilor. Albert and Hermann Gilka were also rich and respected. Arthur Gilka acquired a manor with a distillery in Kartzow in 1898 and produced alcohol from beets and potatoes for liqueur production there. Arthur Gilka also built the new manor house in Kartzow based on plans by Eugen Schmohl from 1912 onwards. The Gilka family's property was mainly in the Mark Brandenburg and Lausitz , which turned out to be fatal after the Second World War : the family was expropriated in 1954 and lost all of their production facilities.
The business was continued by a family member in Hamburg until 1972 , when it was sold to Underberg . "Kaiser-Kümmel" is produced today in Essen - Kettwig under the name JA Gilka KG .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Family stories - meeting of the Gilka, Bötzow and Gilka-Bötzow families. Pankow district office of Berlin, April 9, 2008, accessed on September 11, 2011 (press release).
- ↑ However, one source mentions Lokstedt near Altona as the place of origin : Rudolf Köster: Proper names in German vocabulary . de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 3-11-017702-1 , p. 57.
- ↑ Distillery in Düppel, before 1988. (No longer available online.) Freie Universität Berlin , February 11, 2011, archived from the original on December 13, 2013 ; Retrieved September 11, 2011 (press release). 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.
- ↑ bottlestore.de ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2009 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.
- ↑ Handbook of the Supreme Court and the Court of His K. and K. Apostolic Majesty . Kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei , Vienna 1899, p. 361 .
- ↑ maerkische-landsitze.de
- ↑ potsdam.de ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2011 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. (PDF)
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Marin Majica: Rich with schnapps and beer. A meeting of the Berlin bourgeois families Bötzow, Gilka and Gilka-Bötzow . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 14, 2008
- ↑ ecocktail.de ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2009 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.
