Lüneburg Kronen Brewery
The Lüneburger Kronen Brewery was a brewery based in Lüneburg , which gained national fame with its products "Lüneburger Pilsener " and "Moravia Pils".
history
In 1485, the brewer Thomas Lampe acquired house no. 41 in Grapengießerstraße in Lüneburg from Hans Gerling or Gerlages, thus establishing a long brewing tradition at this location.
On October 1, 1890, the banker Hermann Möllering (born August 23, 1848 in Neuenkirchen) bought the brewery, including the house and land, from his childhood friend Hermann Eckert. Möllering took on a mortgage debt of M 15,000 on the buildings, paid M 60,000 in cash and undertook to pay Eckert or his widow an annual pension of M 6,000 for the rest of their lives. He called the company the Kronen Brewery .
Möllering converted the company on October 1, 1904 - in anticipation of its imminent death - into a stock corporation with M 450,000 capital. The Lüneburger Kronen-Brauerei AG was created. He took this step so as not to leave his wife with too great a social burden. Most of the shares remained in family ownership and the supervisory board position was reserved for one family member.
In 1971 a cooperation was established with the Holsten Group : Holsten Edel was brewed in Lüneburg. In 1974 Johannes Eisenbeiss brought a significant stake in the Lüneburger Kronen-Brauerei AG into the Hamburger Holsten-Brauerei AG. The Lüneburger Kronen-Brauerei AG was incorporated into the Holsten Group in 1975. In addition, the production of Moravia Pils was relocated to Lüneburg. This beer gained a high degree of popularity thanks to the Bill brewery . After the takeover and closure by Holsten, the Moravia Pils was placed as the draft horse of the Lüneburg Kronen Brewery. There was also increasing talk of the Moravia brewery.
In 1981/82 the Kronenbrauerei moved with the flagship Moravia-Pils from Heiligengeiststraße 41 to a large new building in Gebrüder-Heyn-Straße 8 at the port of Lüneburg. This made the Lüneburger Kronen-Brauerei AG the most modern brewery in Northern Germany. The buildings still exist today, but are no longer used as a brewery. The historic brewery buildings at Heiligengeiststrasse 43 were partially demolished. The brewhouse still serves as accommodation for the Lüneburg Brewery Museum and the tradition of the Lüneburg Kronen Brewery is maintained in the "Krone" brewery restaurant. Another part of the area has since served the East Prussian State Museum .
In December 2000 it became known that the Holsten Brewery was planning to close the Lüneburg Kronen Brewery and thus the Lüneburg site. Extensive coverage of these plans followed in the “ Landeszeitung ”. Outraged Lüneburgers, who regretted the closure of the traditional brewery, also had their say in the newspaper. The future of the Lüneburg Pilsener "LüPi" and Moravia Pils was uncertain.
The Lüneburger Kronen-Brauerei AG was closed in 2001. Lüneburger Pilsener and Moravia Pils are brewed by Holsten in Hamburg. According to Holsten, the capacity of the new brewery was not nearly exhausted. Instead of a possible 600,000 hectoliters per year, only 60,000 hectoliters, i.e. a tenth, were produced. The two Lüneburg beers can also be "brewed" by Holsten. As a result, the Lüneburger Pilsener is no longer offered in bottles - it is only available on tap.
Beers (selection)
- Kronen-Pilsener
- Crowns bright
- March
- Crowns Doppelbock
- Kronen export
- Kronen special
- Sülfmeister Hell
- Strong beer
- Crown luxury
- Lüneburg Pilsener ("Lüpi")
- Moravia Pils
literature
- Gertrud Möllering, Wilhelm Reinecke and Heinrich Borstelmann: 450 years of the Kronen Brewery in Lüneburg. 1935
- Helmut C. Pleß : Salt and malt - Lüneburg beer in five centuries. 1985