Lindener Aktien-Brauerei
The Lindener shares Brewery (LAB) was a brewery in today Hannover belonging Linden . The brewery, with its location on Blumenauer Strasse , merged with the Hanover Brewery in 1968 to later become the Gilde Brewery . The main product was the export beer Lindener Spezial , which the Gilde Brewery still produces today .
history
From 1852: Brande & Meyer
In the early days of industrialization in the Kingdom of Hanover , the doctor August Brande and his brother-in-law, the businessman Eduard Meyer, founded a "great Bavarian beer brewery" advertised in Linden near Hanover in 1852 , in which bottom-fermented Bavarian lager was initially brewed .
Since bottom-fermented beer had to be produced at temperatures around 8 degrees lower than with top-fermented beer, Brande & Meyer first had to ensure cooling. As there was still no cooling system , the company had three rock cellars that have been preserved to this day built on Lindener Berg , in which the blocks of ice that were sawed out and transported from the frozen Maschwiesen in winter were stored. The first ice machine was not installed until 1857 - according to another source, an ice cooling machine was bought at the Paris World Exhibition in 1864 . But it was only with the refrigeration machine invented by Carl Linde in 1871 that bottom-fermented beer could finally be brewed in every season.
In the meantime, in 1859, the partnership between the two brewing entrepreneurs received an award for its production on the occasion of the trade exhibition of the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover .
Brande & Meyer had litigated several times with the Hanoverian brewing guild, as it had a monopoly on taxes on beers imported into the city.
With the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover after the Battle of Langensalza by Prussia in 1866, the freedom of trade introduced two years later was connected with which the privileges of the guilds and thus those of the Hanoverian guild were abolished. Now the LAB was able to deliver its beer to the neighboring city of Hanover, for example.
From 1871: Lindener Actien brewery
Of the five larger breweries in Hanover and Linden at the time, the Brande & Meyer brewery had developed into the second largest when it was converted into a stock corporation under the name Lindener Actien-Brauerei in 1871, the year the German Empire was founded . Brande & Meyer was renamed. Eduard Meyer had previously given up his shares in the company, at the same time the previous company was liquidated, but Meyer kept the management of the continuously growing brewery until his death in 1899 as director of the new company. Initially, however, Eduard Meyer, together with the "Oekonom Carl Meyer", was appointed as a member of the board of the new company registered on June 24, 1871 in the commercial register at the Hanover District Court "on Folio 1484".
The brewery produced 130,000 hectoliters in 1891 with 80 employees. There was a siding via the kitchen garden freight yard .
In 1909, the entrepreneur from Linden took over the majority of the brewery H. Langkopf & Malzfabrik GmbH , which was producing in Peine , and was then converted into a malt house.
In the middle of the First World War in 1917, the Lindener Aktien Brauerei formed a consortium together with the breweries Vereinsbrauerei Herrenhausen and Städtische Lager-Brauerei, which are also based in Hanover , through which a - successful - takeover offer was submitted to the shareholders of the Germania brewery . As a result, two Hanover breweries were shut down in the same year.
1926: Takeover by the Gilde Brewery
In 1926, the Hanover Brewery Guild increased its stake in Lindener Aktien-Brauerei from 30% to a majority stake of 76.85%.
During the Second World War , during one of the air raids on Hanover in 1943, most of the LAB's premises were destroyed.
In the post-war period , the brewery facilities in Linden had to be rebuilt. But as early as the 1950s, the various beers such as the Lindener Spezial could be distributed from numerous defeats .
In 1968 the parent company brought its own brewery into the Lindener Aktienbrauerei as a contribution in kind; after the merger , this then traded as Lindener Gilde Bräu AG , by far the largest brewery in Lower Saxony. In 1988 the name was changed to Gilde Brauerei AG . A comprehensive modernization of the brewery on Blumenauer Strasse was then combined with a simultaneous reduction in jobs in Linden.
1997: End of brewing in Linden
As a result of the decline in beer consumption at the time and increasing concentration both in the brewing industry and in trade, the brewing operations in Linden-Mitte were discontinued in 1997 . Instead, the Gilde Brauerei AG relocated the production of the Lindener Spezial to its headquarters on Hildesheimer Straße .
After the brew kettle and the remains of the brewery had been sold, the buildings on the premises of the Lindener Aktien-Brauerei were demolished in August 2000 . Terraced houses have stood on the triangular former company site, known as Gilde-Carré , since 2004 .
From 2002
The Gilde Brewery, founded in the 16th century on Altenbekener Damm in Hanover's Südstadt, was in turn bought up in 2002 by the Belgian company Interbrew - which has since been renamed AB-Inbev NV and is now the world's largest brewery group. Inbev also gave priority to the production and advertising of national beer brands in Hanover and neglected traditional Hanover brands in marketing. In February 2008, the sale of Lindener Spezial as draft beer was stopped. On January 1, 2016, the Gilde Brewery was sold to TCB Beteiligungsgesellschaft .
literature
- Gerhard Nienaber : The brewing and ban rights of the brewery guild Hannover in the 19th century Brauergilde Hannover AG 1993
- Walter Buschmann : Linden trees. History of an industrial city in the 19th century August Lax Verlag Hildesheim 1981
- Gerhard Nienaber: Hanover Brewery Guild 1322-1450-1609-1841, 150 years based on private law 1841 - 1991
- A. Fahl: From Broyhan to Pils. In: From tobacco growers and drunkards. On the history of beer, brandy and tobacco in Northern Germany , booklet accompanying the exhibition, exhibition network: Sielhafenmuseum Carolinensiel and Kreismuseum Syke, ed. from the district museum Syke, with contributions by Geerd Dahms u. a., Syke: District Museum, 2000
- Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Lindener shares brewery. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 408f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Lindener Aktien Brauerei (LAB) , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 408f.
- ↑ a b c d Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Brande, August , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 67; Digitized via Google books
- ↑ a b c Thorsten Bachmann: Linden. New forays through history , Erfurt: Sutton, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-608-3 and ISBN 3-95400-608-1 , p. 49; limited preview in Google Book search
- ^ Director Eduard Meyer † , in Eugen Prior (Ed.): Bayerisches Brauer-Journal , IX. Volume 38, September 23, 1899, p. 457; Digitized via the Bavarian State Library
- ↑ Albert Lefèvre: Fritz Hurtzig 1825-1897. A contribution to the development of Hanoverian industry and economic self-government in the second half of the 19th century , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 28 (1974), pp. 121-274; here: p. 232; limited preview in Google Book search
- ^ Heuweg-Werke, Hanover. Hannoversche Eishaus- und Waren -kaufgesellschaft mbH In: Paul Siedentopf (main editor), Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the picture material): The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , Anniversary-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 91
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 12.3 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 54.8" E