Mainzer Aktien-Bierbrauerei
The Mainzer Aktien-Bierbrauerei was a brewery in Mainz . It fell victim to the great brewery death of the 1980s.
history
As one of the first major German breweries on shares , this brewery was founded on October 22nd, 1859 by a consortium of major merchants from Mainz . 1872 from the original Brey rule ' the Mainzer Actien- brewery . By this time the company had grown into the largest brewery in West Germany. In 1982 the Binding Group, which had held the majority of the shares since the late 1960s, shut down production and ended the delivery operations that were still in operation there 10 years later.
investment
The buildings of the brewery were on the Kästrich , that old, high-lying part of the city on which the castrum, fortified camp of the Romans , was. The brewery buildings covered an area of 30,600 m² and were mostly made of natural rubble . The architect of the first high-quality building, which was badly damaged in World War II, was Ignaz Opfermann . The administration building facing the city was released for demolition in the 1980s as an allegedly insignificant industrial building (malt house) by the preservation authorities under pressure from the government. It was the house where the composer and poet Peter Cornelius died , whose wife Bertha Jung came from the director's family.
Between 1986 and 1990, the Kästrich residential complex with 454 apartments and 15 shops was built on the former premises of the brewery and the brewery tavern "Zum Rad" (a popular excursion restaurant, after the Second World War the venue for operetta performances and the first night sessions). Today only one of the main cellar doors at the upper end of Emmerich-Josef-Straße is preserved. Two stairs running in opposite directions move from the gate to the Kupferbergterrasse , until around 1960 "Mathildenterrasse" in honor of Mathilde Karoline of Bavaria , Grand Duchess of Hesse and the Rhine.
Technical equipment - progress leads to a large brewery
The brewery was the second German brewery to introduce the generation of artificial cold. The cooling demand has been temporarily by seven Linde 'sche ammonia - compressors covered by the corresponding evaporators, generators and sprinkling capacitors. These produced an equivalent of 400 tons of ice a day in the form of cooling capacity, which could hardly have been obtained. And this despite the fact that the wort cooling still took place in refrigerated ships with an area of 700 m², of course , before the wort was transported to the fermentation cellar with a capacity of 10,000 hectoliters. The storage cellars were arranged four times one above the other and comprised 28 compartments for a maturation of 102,000 hl beer.
The share had its own malt house , which covered the brewery's entire needs (8,000 t per year). The hallmark of the brewery is the since Roman times as a symbol of the old Mogontiacum common Mithras wheel as word and design mark: wheel, double wheel, double wheel gold and Mainzer Rad-Pils ( see also: Mainzer Rad ).
History within the city
An economic analysis by Georg Wilhelm von Wedekind in the Fatherland Reports in 1835 gave the following picture:
"Beer breweries: Although better beers are brewed in Schlitz, Lauterbach, Biedenkopf, Gießen, Friedberg, Lich, Oberstadt, Großbieberau, Erbach, Beerfelden, Mossau and some places in the province of Rheinhessen , this production still needs to be perfected."
Nevertheless, the beer tax in the Grand Duchy was increased in 1842 and then again in 1858, a year before the MAB was founded; In 1858 by 50%.
The founding of the share beer brewery was preceded by a first attempt in the summer of 1856 to set up a large brewery based on shares in Mainz. The task of the brewing establishment should be, on the one hand, to make the import of this article superfluous by means of a beer brewed in the Bavarian style, and on the other hand to give our city the advantages of an available export .
The second attempt to found a company was successful at the beginning of 1859. The founders were the grocer Johann Strigler, the banker Abraham Mayer jun. and the merchant Wilhelm Boos. Within the city's fortress walls , part of the early city expansion could be used for new investments ( see also: History of the City of Mainz ). At the time it was founded, there were more than 30 breweries , mostly home breweries, with a population of 36,000 in the narrow old town of Mainz .
Infrastructure
Another investment incentive was the construction of some new railway lines around Mainz ( Hessische Ludwigsbahn , Mainbahn , Linke Rheinlinie ) and the construction of the Mainz main station , which provided cheap transport options.
The Mainz family was closely connected to this development. Again and again it was family members who directed the fortunes of the brewery for three generations, starting with Dr. Otto Jung.
literature
- Karl Schramm : Mainz Gold in a Glass: The story of the Mainz Aktien-Bierbrauerei tells in the year of its 100th anniversary. 1859-1959 . Mainz Aktien-Bierbrauerei, Mainz 1959.
Web links
History and locations of the former Mainz breweries and the Mainz Aktien Bierbrauerei at www.bier-in-mainz.de
Remarks
- ^ As early as 1810, Napoleon introduced a license requirement for selected trades.
Individual evidence
- ^ History and locations of the former Mainz breweries and the Mainz Aktien Bierbrauerei September 24, 2015.
- ^ Schramm, page 6
- ↑ see population development of Mainz
- ^ Schramm, page 7