Küpper brewery

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The Küpper Brewery is an ensemble of buildings from a former brewery in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße .

history

Share of 1000 RM in Wicküler-Küpper-Brauerei AG from July 1943

The Küpper company

The brewery, originally located on Ronsdorfer Strasse , was founded by the baker Johann Christoph Küpper and had existed since at least 1828. In the course of the company's history, it was one of the largest breweries in the area of ​​the towns of Elberfeld and Barmen alongside the competing Wicküler brewery . In 1886 the company was converted into a stock corporation under the name Bergische Brauereigesellschaft .

In the following years the company ran into economic difficulties due to its high dependency on exports. At the beginning of 1896, the Wicküler brewery made a lucrative takeover offer to the company and the Küpper family and the merger to form “Wicküler-Küpper-Brauerei AG” took place. In 1900 the location on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße was given up and the building complex was sold to the wine wholesaler Peter Himmelmann-Pothmann.

The Peter Himmelmann-Pothmann company

The Peter Wilhelm Richard Himmelmann-Pothmann wine wholesaler was the largest and most modern outside of the wine-growing regions of the German Empire at the time .

The Weinkontor was severely damaged during the Second World War . The corner towers and the entire top floor were destroyed, as were the small octagonal twin towers and the hoods on the side risalite . They were not rebuilt after the war or only in a different form.

After the war, Bayer's patents were temporarily brought into the building and stored.

Todays use

The use of the building complex is different today. There is an architecture office , a designer gallery , an atelier and a wine shop in the buildings. In house no. 191 there is a nationally known music club, the U-Club . Over the decades, the building has been transformed into a labyrinth due to the small-scale use and various conversions and installations.

The house at Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 180 was renovated, so that in the second half of 2009 the male emergency sleeping area could move from Markomannenstraße to here.

Concept for the future

A concept by the architects' office provides for a reconstruction of the tower hoods for the building at Friedrich-Ebert Straße 191. These are to be created from an open construction made of metal, which are to serve as light objects during the night. The top floor is also to be expanded and additional light is to be brought into the building through skylights and windows on the side walls.

The buildings

Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 180

Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 180

The warehouse, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 180, was built for the brewery owner Gustav Küpper between 1847 and 1868. On the first floor of the four-story house were the horse stables and the carriage shed . The coachman's apartment was on the upper floor, the other floors were used as storage rooms. Tunnels were driven from the storeys into the slope of the neighboring Nützenberg to cool the beer . The building, which was built in a classical style, has a structured and slurry stone facade. The three lower floors have arched windows, the third floor has circular windows, as can also be found at the corners of the house. The arched windows are equipped with wrought iron balustrade grilles. The building is connected to the Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 182 building by a single-storey intermediate wing.

On September 18, 1987, the building was placed under monument protection.

Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 182

Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 182
The location of the brewery and malt house, which has since been abandoned
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 191
Back of Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 191
Courtyard side from Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 191

The three-story building at Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 182, which is equipped with an additional mezzanine floor , was built for Gustav Küpper between 1847 and 1868. The structured natural stone facade consists of a three-axis central projection with arched windows on the ground floor and first floor and also has classicist styles. The building with a hipped roof , which was used as a residential and commercial building, is connected to the Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 180 house by an intermediate wing on the eastern plastered gable facade. The single-storey intermediate wing, built in quarry stone, has a round arched door. On the western gable facade there was a forge's mess with jointed brickwork and was required for hoisting the brewery horses and setting the beer barrels with tires. Originally there was still a brewery and malting building to the west, which was also connected via an intermediate wing. This brewery building, which has since been demolished, was in turn connected to the beer cellar at Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 191 by a tunnel under Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse for the purpose of expansion . A restaurant is operated in this house today .

On September 18, 1987, the building was placed under monument protection.

Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 191

The one to two-story larger building, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 191, was used as an office and warehouse building. It consists of two older buildings, one built before 1868 on the eastern side and the two-story building used as a beer cellar warehouse, which was built in 1872. In 1900, when the owner changed, the buildings were connected by a single-storey building.

The side of the street facing Friedrich-Ebert-Straße and the courtyard entrance consists of an ashlar facade in the Gothic style with decor. The two-storey building on the courtyard side is equipped with a brick facade in the neo-renaissance style and has a flat roof with skylight. This building is provided with a four-axis central projection, flat stepped gables and indicated corner guards . The storage building on the western side, which was originally built to store bottom-fermented beer, has outer walls up to two meters thick and thus kept a constant low temperature and was one of the first artificial cooling cellars.

The structured plaster facade is provided with historicist style forms in ashlar plaster and ashlar plastering. In the middle of the roof ridge are small octagonal twin towers. The corners facing the street were originally provided with ball knob points, each of which still had a flagpole - they were not restored after the Second World War. The warehouse building, which evokes associations with a Moorish palace, was connected to the malthouse and brewery on the other side of the street with a tunnel, which has since been demolished.

With the new owner Peter Himmelmann-Pothmann, numerous modifications were made to the building. A single-storey connection to the office space on the street side and a two-storey extension on the courtyard side were built. The facade was decorated with bacchanalian motifs. The interior of the Weinkontor is determined by the 4000 m² model cellar with vaulted cellars, some of which went over five floors. With their wood paneling, plastering in a marble structure and corduroy covering of the walls, the offices are still in their original state in the style of the early 20th century. A gallery with a wrought iron railing is located in the former shipping hall.

On April 20, 1989, the building was placed under monument protection.

Others

The television comedy Schwer verknallt (2003) by Josh Broecker with Matthias Koeberlin and Katrin Filzen in the lead roles was filmed for the most part on the Küpper brewery and in the building.

Further film work in the building:

Web links

Commons : Küpper-Brauerei  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the Wuppertal monument list (Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 180)
  • Entry in the Wuppertal monument list (Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 182)
  • Entry in the Wuppertal monument list (Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 191)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wicküler-Küpper-Brauerei Limited partnership on shares, accessed March 2008.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
  3. Weinkontor-Wuppertal website of the dealer with historical photos of the building
  4. U-Club website of the location with photos from inside the building
  5. New address for the Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) male emergency shelter from March 20, 2009.
  6. weinkontor-wuppertal.de , Weinkontor Wuppertal, project study
  7. a b 'The Invisibles' in the Weinkontor. In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Wuppertaler Rundschau, accessed on October 12, 2017 .