Leipzig brewery in Reudnitz
The Leipziger Brauhaus zu Reudnitz is a brewery belonging to the Radeberger Group in the Leipzig district of Reudnitz-Thonberg .
history
Foundation and expansion
The history of the brewery goes back to the year 1862, when Adolf Schröder founded the Leipzig beer brewery in Reudnitz in the suburb of Reudnitz, which was not yet incorporated into Leipzig. As early as 1871, the bankrupt company was sold to the industrialist Carl Adolf Riebeck and some Leipzig citizens.
Under the leadership of Riebeck, the brewery began to develop into the most important in Saxony and the fourth largest in the German Empire . In 1887 it was named Riebeck & Comp. trading company converted into a stock corporation. On the threshold of the 20th century, the company owned the most modern brewing facilities in Europe and the largest brewhouse in the world.
The company acquired the Altenburger Aktienbrauerei and the Gottlieb Büchner brewery in Erfurt . In addition, the company acquired the majority of shares in the Kiesel-Haberland brewery in Finsterwalde , the club brewery in Döbeln , the Heßberg brewery in Heßberg , the Pfannenberg brewery in Zerbst , the Partuschke brewery in Torgau and the Kürsten brewery in Arnstadt . Furthermore, the Riebeck & Comp. AG in Aktienbrauerei Neustadt-Magdeburg AG (62.4%), Vereinsbrauerei AG Greiz (74%), Reichsquelle Brauerei AG Mühlhausen (40%), Bürgerliches Brauhaus AG Saalfeld (66.23%), Vereinsbrauerei AG Zwickau (58.3%), the Vereinsbrauerei AG Apolda (72%), the Bergbrauerei AG Riesa (74%), the Aktienbrauerei Greußen (70%), the brewery Hack AG Meiningen (40%), the Aktienbrauerei Krostitz (74%) , Germania Brauerei AG Oschersleben , Exportbierbrauerei AG Peter Königsee , Stadtbrauerei AG Wurzen and Klosterbrauerei AG Stadtroda .
The brewery in the GDR
More than half of the brewery buildings were destroyed by air raids during World War II. In 1946 the company was nationalized, which from then on operated as VEB Riebeck-Brauerei , later as VEB Landes-Brauerei . At the same time, the gradual reconstruction of the brewery facilities began. In 1959, the brewery with other breweries, including the trading as VEB West source was former brewery CW Naumann in Plagwitz, for Kombinat VEB Sachsenbräu together. In 1968 the VEB Getränkekombinat Leipzig followed , whose parent company was the VEB Sachsenbräu.
Development since 1990
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After the political change in the GDR, the combine was dissolved. The brewery now appeared with the new “Reudnitzer” brand. In 1991 the Dortmund beverage group Brau und Brunnen AG took over the company and renamed it to Reudnitz GmbH in Leipziger Brauhaus . To modernize the production facilities, Brau und Brunnen AG invested the equivalent of approx. 50 million euros. In 1993 a fully automated brewhouse was inaugurated. The Reudnitzer Brewery, with its 170 jobs, was threatened with closure in 1997 due to economic difficulties facing the parent company. It was averted by massive public protests.
In 2005 the brewery was sold to the Radeberger Group of the Oetker Group . In the same year a new bottle filling line with a capacity of up to 60,000 bottles per hour was installed.
The Reudnitzer beer brand ended in 2012 with the discontinuation of the Reudnitzer Pilsner and Reudnitzer Ur-Bock products that were still brewed last . The Leipziger Brauhaus zu Reudnitz GmbH has been deleted from the commercial register. The production facilities are used to produce Sternburg beer .
The Leipziger Brauhaus zu Reudnitz sponsored the soccer club 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig , the Völkerschlachtdenkmals , the children's clinic of the University of Leipzig and the Leipzig Cultural Foundation.
literature
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , keyword “Breweries”.
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Leipziger Brauhaus zu Reudnitz in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.brauwesen-historisch.de/Riebeck.html
- ^ The CW Naumann brewery in: Leipzig-Lexikon, accessed on September 8, 2017
- ↑ http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~kmw/newwws/archiv_alles/98_06_19/reudnitz.htm
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 51.3 " N , 12 ° 24 ′ 4.9" E