Kaspar Schulz brewery machine factory and apparatus construction company

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Kaspar Schulz

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founding January 11, 1677
Seat Bamberg , Bavaria
management Johannes Schulz-Hess
Number of employees 205
Branch Steel and metal processing
Website www.kaspar-schulz.de
As of July 1, 2016

Kaspar Schulz Brauereimaschinenfabrik & Apparatebauanstalt eK is an owner-managed, medium-sized German family company in the 10th generation, based in Bamberg in Upper Franconia . It specializes in the production of manufacturing systems for beer production with an annual capacity of up to 400,000 hectoliters. The company, which has existed since 1677, is the oldest still existing industrial company in Bamberg and one of the oldest metalworking companies in Germany.

history

Headquarters of Kaspar Schulz 1677–1887

The history of the company can be traced back to 1677 without interruption, when Christian Schulz, a coppersmith in Bamberg , from Greiffenberg in Silesia , married the widow of his deceased master and became self-employed. The main house of the family and the coppersmith's workshop was Unterer Kaulberg 15 , in the middle of the UNESCO World Heritage Old Town of Bamberg , for more than two centuries . The chronology of the house as a coppersmith's workshop and previously a roofer's workshop can be traced back much further into the past.

In the 18th century, the descendants of Christian Schulz emerged as coppersmiths in a formative way in the handcrafted interior and exterior design of churches in the diocese of Bamberg . The most important order was the roofing of the towers of Bamberg Cathedral according to the plans of Johann Jakob Michael Küchel 1765–1767. During the final work, master coppersmith Tobias Schulz, grandson of Christian Schulz, lost his life on December 31, 1767 when he fell from the southeast tower. He was buried in the cloister of the cathedral. In addition to church commissions, utensils made of copper for private households and vessels for brewing beer were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The oldest brewery of the Schulz'schen coppersmiths still in use is the former Schlüsselfelder Kommunbrauhaus , forged in 1844 by Andreas Schulz (1782–1865) , which is now in the Franconian Open Air Museum in Bad Windsheim .

On March 13, 1879, the 7th generation (Johann) Kaspar Schulz (1856–1915) entered the trade register of the city of Bamberg. As business books show, Kaspar Schulz retained the diverse range of services and goods of a coppersmith, but under his aegis he specialized in the production, installation and maintenance of brewery technology ( brewing pans , cooling ships, etc.). Due to the restricted space and the increased demand, Kaspar Schulz relocated the coppersmith's workshop from the Lower Kaulberg on the Fernstraße to Würzburg in the city center of Bamberg (Frauenstraße 15) in 1887. Kaspar Schulz remained as the company name and was retained by the following generations. The move from the purely handcrafted coppersmith's workshop to an industrial company went hand in hand with the move. In the 1920s, under Adalbert Schulz (8th generation), the production range was expanded to include apparatus construction , including malting machines , stills for schnapps distilleries and sterilization equipment (in the sense of disinfection) for hospitals. These were in international demand as far as China .

Typical 3-device brewhouse from Kaspar Schulz 2016

During the Second World War , the company was obliged to manufacture housings for sea mines. After 1945, the company was gradually moved to its current location on the outskirts of Bamberg (Hallstadter Strasse 174, after a street name was changed: Kaspar-Schulz-Strasse 1). Since then, the production facilities have been continuously expanded and modernized (construction phases 1956, 1968, 1979, 1989, 1994, 2014). The production of special aluminum tanks had already started in 1947, followed by the manufacture of stainless steel tanks in 1965 . The first fully automatic Schulz brewhouse control was designed in 1973 and first implemented at Würzburger Hofbräu . In 1985 the production of craft beer and adventure breweries with a plant size of 2.5 to 30 hectoliters started, which triggered a trend back to beer diversity or helped shape this trend internationally. With over 385 systems installed in 67 countries (as of June 1, 2016), Kaspar Schulz is the market leader in this area.

Innovations and development since 2000

Schulz has its own research and development department. The market launch of the wort boiling system “SchoKo” in 2001, a re-evaporation process that enables savings of up to 70 percent in primary energy compared to conventional boiling processes, was awarded the Bavarian Energy Prize in 2003 . In 2005 the Optimaischer, a system for even and dust-free mash introduction, was presented. Since 2010, small malting systems have been produced again using tried and tested methods. This is to encourage craft beer brewers to produce the malt they need themselves.

Kaspar Schulz's production hall

In August 2015, the company, which had increased its production area by 2,000 m² with the commissioning of a new production hall at the end of 2014, was given the " Bavaria's best 50 " prize from the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology in special recognition for its innovative strength excellent. With the takeover of the company Hinke-Tankbau, founded in 1946 and based in Vöcklamarkt in Upper Austria, on January 1, 2016, which specializes in the manufacture of containers for the brewery and beverage industry as well as the pharmaceutical and chemical industry, large tanks up to 12 m in diameter can now be used , 40 m height and 1,500,000 l capacity are manufactured standing up and thus the demand of more powerful breweries in this area can be met. With the takeover of Hinke, the number of employees increases to 205. In June 2016, when it was voted one of the TOP 100 of German medium- sized companies, further recognition took place on the basis of a scientific selection process.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kestel, Christian: From the coppersmith's workshop to a modern industrial company. 333 years of brewery machine factory and apparatus construction company Kaspar Schulz. In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research 70 (2010), pp. 125–149, here pp. 125f.
  2. ^ Dengler-Schreiber, Karin : Chronicle of the Schulz family and the Kaspar Schulz company. From the coppersmith to the brewery machine factory and apparatus construction company. Bamberg 2002, p. 3.
  3. ^ By Tilmann Breuer and Reinhard Gutbier: Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern. The city of Bamberg. Volume 3: Immunities of the mountain town. Part 2: Kaulberg, Matern and Sutte. Munich 1997, p. 631.
  4. ^ The bishopric of Bamberg in the past and present. Part 5: Bamberg Cathedral. Cathedral and mother church. Strasbourg 1997, p. 60.
  5. ↑ 333 years of Schulz. Tradition and innovation from Bamberg since 1677. Bamberg 2010, p. 76, p. 103-105 and p. 140.
  6. ↑ Bamberg City Archives, inventory C 34/42 No. 10, Commercial Registration Register of the City of Bamberg, p. 124.
  7. ^ Kestel, Christian: From the coppersmith's workshop to a modern industrial company. 333 years of brewery machine factory and apparatus construction company Kaspar Schulz. In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research 70 (2010), pp. 136–141.
  8. ^ Kestel, Christian: From the coppersmith's workshop to a modern industrial company. 333 years of brewery machine factory and apparatus construction company Kaspar Schulz. In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research 70 (2010), p. 142.
  9. ↑ 333 years of Schulz. Tradition and innovation from Bamberg since 1677. Bamberg 2010, pp. 243, 275, 277, 292f.
  10. ↑ BRAUINDUSTRIE 03/2002, pp. 34–35.
  11. ↑ BRAUINDUSTRIE drinktec2009, p. 46. Press release "Kaspar Schulz is one of Germany's innovation elite" from June 24, 2016
  12. ↑ BRAUINDUSTRIE 10/2003, pp. 10-13.
  13. ↑ 333 years of Schulz. Tradition and innovation from Bamberg since 1677. Bamberg 2010, p. 296.
  14. ↑ Brochure "SCHULZ MÄLZUNGSSYSTEM", Bamberg 2016. See also homepage www.kaspar-schulz.de
  15. ↑ Franconian Day, Bamberg edition, August 11, 2015, p. 14
  16. ^ Fränkischer Tag, Bamberg edition, March 18, 2016, p. 9
  17. ↑ Yogeshwar, Ranga (ed.): TOP 100 2016 - Trailblazer: The most innovative medium-sized companies. Munich 2016, p. 312f.