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| Kattus Vertriebsges.mbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1857 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| management | Maria Polsterer-Kattus |
| Branch | luxury |
| Website | www.Kattus.at |
Kattus is one of the most famous wineries in Vienna and a former purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court . The head office is at Billrothstrasse 51 in the 19th district of Döbling in Vienna .
history
In the 1790s Johann Kattus came to Austria. It probably originally came from near the Federsee in Swabia. His son Johann Kattus (1813 in Eggenburg -1899) first lived in Stockerau . He found his first job as a traveler for the wine merchant Alois Schwartzer and later Ignaz Römer. Kattus then went into business for himself and probably founded a specialty store at Am Hof 8 in the 1st district of Vienna's Inner City around 1857 .
At first he mainly sold wine , coffee , tea , tropical fruits , spirits , champagne and later also caviar . For the spirits he worked as a wine merchant and was able to establish contacts with Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin . He also had contacts with another purveyor to the court, Girolamo Luxardo from Zadar and Chartreuse in France.
Looking for suppliers for isinglass (then mainly for fining (clarification) of wine and for the production of Hausenblasenleim but was needed as gelling agent found resource use) because of increasing wine sales was Kattus on sturgeon from the Caspian Sea attentive. On one of his many trips abroad, Kattus founded a caviar factory in Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea. Kattus was extremely successful with caviar pickled in brine , and between 1880 and 1918 he was the most important caviar trader in the world. He was able to turn over 200,000 kilograms of it per year. He supplied the imperial courts in Vienna and Saint Petersburg, German royal courts and even American hotels.
After the death of the court fruit trader Fermer, Kattus took over this function and supplied the imperial court with apples from the 1860s. Kattus also supplied rubber hoses for watering the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace and the Prater . In 1898 he was finally awarded the title of imperial and royal purveyor to the court. He died a year later, and the title became void.
His son Johann Nepomuk Kattus (1861–1933) had been a partner in the company since 1891. His sister Therese left the company and in 1895 married the artist Franz Matsch , who was in close contact with the emperor. Matsch designed the bottle labels for Kattus, which have only changed slightly since his time.
In addition to the Am Hof store and the trading post in Astrakhan, the Kattus family owned a branch in Berlin and cellars, an open warehouse in Silbergasse in the 19th district of Vienna, cellars in Markersdorf an der Pielach , rental cellars in Weidling and Klosterneuburg and vineyards on Nussberg , am Bisamberg and in Weidling. The cellars and vineyards were vital to the production of sparkling wine. In 1890 the own sparkling wine production was started. Johann Nepomuk Kattus created the Hochriegl brand , named after his best vineyard. Hochriegl Sekt became very popular in the monarchy, and in 1898 Kattus was appointed supplier to the Imperial and Royal Court.
The First World War and the collapse of the monarchy brought hard times for the company. The need for luxury goods such as caviar fell steadily during the war, and the caviar factory in Astrakhan was also confiscated. After the First World War the brothers Johann, Josef and Franz steered the company in the third generation through the Great Depression and the Second World War , bombs damaged the Kattus plant.
In September 2009, the traditional Hochriegl brand, which was the strongest brand of the Kattus sparkling wine producer with sales of around two million bottles per year - this corresponds to a market share of around 10% - was acquired by the sparkling wine manufacturer Schlumberger, which is wholly owned by the German beverage company Underberg heard, taken over.
Products
Kattus products include Kattus Frizzante , Gianni Kattus Prosecco and Gianni Secco . In addition, beverages from other manufacturers are sold, such as. B. the champagne Laurent-Perrier or Corona Extra .
literature
- Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors. Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .
- János Kalmár, Mella Waldstein: KuK purveyors to Vienna's court. Stocker, Graz et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7020-0935-3 . Pp. 40-45.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20090917_OTS0312 Presseaussendung on ots.at
- ↑ Sales range ( Memento of the original from March 26, 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.
Remarks
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↑ 1859 noted the first year of Adolph Lehmann ’s general housing advertisement Joh (ann) Kattus as a grocer and forwarder on Tuchlauben 555, which corresponded to Tuchlauben 20 from the early 1860s. - See: Kattus Joh. . In: General address book and business manual for (…) Vienna and its surroundings . First vintage. Förster, Wien 1859, p. 371. In
1865 the business is run by Johann Kattus at Judenplatz 8 and Bauernmarkt 12. - See: Johann Kattus . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with commercial and commercial address book (...) . Fifth year. Gerold, Vienna 1865, p. 148.
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 21.3 " N , 16 ° 20 ′ 56.3" E