Landskron Brewery

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Entrance to the brewery

The Landskron Brau-Manufaktur Görlitz Dr. Lohbeck GmbH & Co. KG is a brewery in Görlitz that was founded in 1869 and employs 70 people. It is one of the oldest manufacturing industrial monuments in Germany. The beer matures in cellars 12 meters deep for 40 days, longer than usual. These fermentation rooms from 1869 are under monument protection.

Görlitz is the easternmost city in Germany, which is why the Landskron Brewery advertised for a long time with the slogan "The easternmost brewery in Germany". Since a house brewery was founded only a few meters further east on the Neisse, this title was lost from 2006.

location

The brewery is located on the vineyard site, a slope of the western cut of the Lusatian Neisse valley . The rocky slopes to the Neisse were originally almost bare, but have been reforested over the years. This created a varied deciduous forest. The name of the brewery is derived from the Görlitz landmark, the state crown . This is the highest point in the city.

history

Old Landskron beer lid
open fermentation tanks of the Landskron brewery

In 1869 the Görlitzer Aktien brewery had an output of 27,000  hectoliters . In 1882 the name Landskron beer was protected by patent . Three years later, in 1885, the beer received a gold medal at the trade and industrial exhibition. In 1908 100,000 hectoliters were produced for the first time. Walther Scheller headed the company from 1928 to 1946, and the stylized L on the label also dates from this period . A state participation took place in 1959 when Landskronbrauerei Scheller & Co. KG .

In 1972 the brewery was completely nationalized and run as a state-owned company . In 1988 the brewery achieved the highest output since it was founded, at 541,000 hectoliters. From 1991 onwards, brewing was again based on the German purity law . In 1992 the Scheller family took over the company again.

Since the beginning of 2003 the company has belonged to the Holsten Group . In July 2006 the company was sold to the Rolf Lohbeck Family Foundation. Manfred ten Bosch was the managing director from 2015 until his death in January 2017. The current managing directors are Uwe Köhler (Marketing / Sales) and Matthias Grall (1st master brewer). The annual production is 150,000 hectoliters.

range

Landskron Premium Pilsner

The main product is the beer . It is available all year round. The pilsner contains 4.8% alcohol and an original wort content of 11.6%. According to the manufacturer, its ideal temperature to enjoy is 8 ° C.

Pupen-Schultze's black

This Schwarzbräu, originally from Cottbus , received the German Agricultural Society Prize (DLG) in silver in 2003 . The name comes from the beginning of the 20th century, when Gustav Schultze brewed his black beer in Cottbus and sent it to Berlin, Saxony and Northern Europe as Schultzes Schwarzes . The addition of pups was added by the people, as the beer often became stale on the transport. The alcohol content is 3.8% and the original wort content is 9.8%. Pupen-Schultzes Black from the Landskron Brewery contains the chemical sweeteners aspartame , acesulfame and saccharin . The manufacturer therefore calls it " draft beer with sweetener" in Germany .

Landskron wheat

In its first year of 2006, Landskron wheat was awarded the gold medal by the German Agricultural Society. It is the only wheat beer from Saxony and Brandenburg that has undergone the test. The beer has an alcohol content of 5.5% and an original wort content of 12.8%. It can also be purchased all year round.

Further products

  • Landskron Hell , 4.5% vol. And 10.9% original wort
  • Landskron Edel-Bitter, 4.8% vol. And 11.9% original wort
  • Landskron Maibock / Goldbock , 6.3% vol. And 16.5% original wort
  • Landskron winter hops, 5.3% vol. And 13.5% original wort
  • Landskron cellar beer , naturally cloudy, 5.2% vol. And 12.0% original wort.
  • Landskron Active
  • Landskron warehouse
  • Landskron amber
  • Landskron Fassbrause

  • Beer mat with picture of the brewery

Since the beginning of April 2018, the Landskron Pilsner, Bernstein and Pupen-Schultzes Schwarzes varieties have also been sold in 0.33 liter bottles.

Brewery Festival

Fireworks and laser show at the 2012 Brewery Festival

Since 2003, the brewery festival has usually been held on a weekend every year under the name Landskron Brewing Festival for the Senses . It usually starts on Friday evening and ends on Sunday evening. Various music and dance groups form the cultural framework program. On Saturday night there will be fireworks and a laser show on the main stage in the large courtyard of the brewery. In addition to the premises of the Kulturbrauerei, the Kulturschmiede and the beer cellar under the director's villa are often open for the brewery festival. In 2012 the ninth Brewery Festival counted around 10,000 visitors.

Others

  • Landskron is the official sponsor of the football club FSV Budissa Bautzen .
  • The alley in front of the brewhouse served as the backdrop for the film Around the World in 80 Days and represented the New York harbor.
  • The brewery is a member of the Brauring , a cooperation between private breweries from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

literature

  • Edda Gutsche: Gose, Schwarzes, Kombinate. The beers of the east. (Ed. By the German Brewers Association e.V.) L&H Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-928119-84-2 .
  • Annett Gernhardt: 140 years of the Landskron Brewery in Görlitz (1869–2009). (Ed. Landskron Brewery Görlitz), Stadtbild-Verlag, Görlitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-939655-70-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sächsische Zeitung of November 5, 2015
  2. ↑ Ralph Schermann: Brewery celebrates atmospheric party . In: Saxon newspaper . June 11, 2012 ( online [accessed June 10, 2012]).
  3. ↑ Member breweries . Brewing ring, accessed February 20, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 25 ″  N , 14 ° 59 ′ 18 ″  E