Eptingen mineral spring
| Mineralquelle Eptingen AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation owned by the family |
| founding | 1899 |
| Seat | Eptingen (BL), Switzerland |
| management | Matthias Buchenhorner (4th generation) |
| Number of employees | 65 (2016) |
| sales | 50 million bottles (2016) |
| Branch | beverages |
| Website | www.eptinger.ch |
The mineral spring Eptingen AG is a beverage production enterprises from the canton Basel Country . The Swiss family company is managed by the fourth generation and sells the two mineral water brands Eptinger and Cristallo , as well as the grapefruit drink Pepita .
history
In 1899, Edmund Buchenhorner-Dettwiler, together with his brother-in-law Ernst Singer-Buchenhorner, acquired Bad Eptingen and the associated source rights. At that time, Eptingen was a major spa town that had been attracting visitors from the nearby city of Basel since the early 18th century . The bath was known for its rich spring water , which rose not far from the village. The Basel physician Theodor Zwinger first described its quality and advantages in 1693. He praised the spring water with its slightly smoky taste as a means that cleanses the blood and helps with liver , spleen and kidney problems.
In the first financial year, 30,000 bottles were filled with Eptinger mineral water by hand . Although foreign mineral water brands dominated the Swiss market at the end of the 19th century, Eptingen mineral water was able to establish itself shortly afterwards. Due to the increasing demand, the first filling machine started working in Eptingen in 1905 . With the machine operation, production increased many times over. In 1910, Edmund Buchenhorner and Ernst Singer founded a joint stock company Singer-Buchenhorner & Co. Later the name was changed to Mineralquelle Eptingen.
During the First World War , sales of Eptingen mineral water fell, but increased again from 1918. While the mineral water business developed steadily, the bathing business became more and more out of fashion. Like most spas in the canton of Baselland , bathing in Eptingen was discontinued after the First World War and the associated hotel was leased. The era of Swiss spring lemonades began in the 1920s. For this reason, the company acquired the Sissacher Alpbadquelle and from 1929 produced the Sissa-Citro from this water . The Sissa-Citro was followed by other lemonades: Sissa-Orange in 1936 and Sissa-Grapefruit in 1938. In addition, another spring in Lostorf in Solothurn was acquired in 1933 and the independent subsidiary Mineralquelle Lostorf AG was founded. In the same year they began to bottle the Lostorf mineral water.
During the Second World War , the sweet drinks business came under further pressure due to the rationing of sugar . The production of Sissa grapefruit was therefore given up. In 1949, the Eptingen mineral spring again launched a grapefruit lemonade called Pepita. The “Ara label”, which the Basel graphic artist Herbert Leupin designed in 1949, made the drink particularly recognizable .
On July 27, 1969, part of the Edelweiss slope near Eptingen slipped and destroyed most of the production facility there. An appraisal by a geological group of experts later concluded that work during the construction of the new N2 motorway had triggered the landslide . The slide on the Edelweisshang also damaged the Eptingen cemetery. Since the bottling hall and the cemetery were affected, a rumor subsequently spread that the Eptingen mineral water runs under the cemetery and is therefore so rich in minerals . This contradicts the fact that the spring and the spring pipe were not damaged in contrast to the buildings of the mineral spring Eptingen. For this reason, the company was able to temporarily resume bottling the mineral water shortly after the landslide. At the same time, the construction of a new warehouse and bottling building began on the opposite side of the valley. In 1973, regular operations could be resumed.
Around ten years later, the company filled its drinks in PET bottles for the first time . In 1989, the production of sweet drinks in Sissach was discontinued and relocated to Eptingen. In 2005 Mineralquelle Lostorf AG, which had previously been run as an independent company, was integrated into Mineralquelle Eptingen AG. Its managing director has been Matthias Buchenhorner since 2014, who is the fourth generation to run the family business .
swell
The Eptingen mineral spring has a filling and production site each in Eptingen and Lostorf . The Birch spring in Eptingen in the canton of Baselland is 417 meters deep and extends into the water-bearing shell limestone layer . It is located around three kilometers above the village and the bottling plant and is fed into production via an underground pipe via an intermediate reservoir. The Lostorf spring in the canton of Solothurn , which is 514 meters deep, also comes from the shell limestone .
Products
The products from Mineralquelle Eptingen AG are sold under the following brand names:
Mineral water:
Soft drinks:
- Pepita
- Cristallo soft drinks
Awards
In May 2016, the K-Tipp published the results of the chemical analysis of the 20 best-selling mineral waters. The analysis in a specialized laboratory focused on potential contamination in mineral water caused by pharmaceuticals , pesticides and artificial sweeteners . The analysis also showed how high the content of the poisonous uranium and the desired minerals calcium and magnesium is. All mineral waters from the company Mineralquelle Eptingen with the five springs in Lostorf and Eptingen were free of the substances examined. Even in analyzes of the uranium content or other pollutants that the K-Tipp carried out in previous years, the mineral water brands of the Eptingen mineral spring were without results.
Web links
- Website of Eptinger Mineralwasser
- Cristallo website
- Website by Pepita
- Isabel Strassheim: Suddenly the Swiss water is selling. In: Tages-Anzeiger , July 13, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Edmund Buchenhorner. In: Baselland Personal Lexicon. Retrieved November 10, 2016 .
- ^ A b Peter Stöcklin: Eptingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 27, 2004 , accessed November 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Urs Fueglistaller and Peter May: Swiss standards - from the best family. 2010. p. 270. ISBN 978-3-03823-606-1
- ^ A b c Hans Tschopp: Local history of Eptingen. 1967. p. 30 PDF. Retrieved November 10, 2016 .
- ^ The mineral spring from July / August 1982: Quellenportrait (II) Mineralquelle Eptingen AG
- ^ Georg Siegrist-Frey: Local history Sissach. 1998. p. 283. ISBN 3-85673-529-1
- ^ A b c Paul Imhof: The culinary heritage of Switzerland. Volume 2. 2013. P. 170. ISBN 978-3-905800-61-6
- ↑ a b c Basler Zeitung : History is tangible in Eptingen from August 25, 2015. Accessed November 10, 2016 (archive)
- ↑ Pepita. Swiss Culinary Heritage, accessed on November 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Landslide on the Edelweisshang, Eptingen from July 27, 1969. Report of the expert group. District Court of Waldenburg. March 15, 1972. Baselland State Archives.
- ↑ Basellandschaftliche Zeitung of July 30, 1969: The Eptingen cemetery must be relocated.
- ↑ Basellandschaftliche Zeitung of August 4, 1969: Despite the rain, the Edelweisshang remained stationary.
- ↑ Basellandschaftliche Zeitung of November 29, 1988: Mineralquelle Eptingen makes Sissach known.
- ↑ The source. Website of Eptinger Mineralwasser, accessed on November 10, 2016 .
- ↑ The source. Cristallo website, accessed November 10, 2016 .
- ↑ mineral water. Eptinger Mineralwasser website, accessed on November 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Our mineral water. (No longer available online.) Cristallo website, archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on November 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Our soft drinks. (No longer available online.) Cristallo website, archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on November 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Your Choice - The World of Pepita. (No longer available online.) Pepita's website, archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on November 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ K-Tip : Mineral water: PET residues, pesticides and uranium including from May 18, 2016. Accessed November 10, 2016
- ↑ K-Tip : Mineral water test: Many types with pollutants from September 17, 2014. Accessed November 10, 2016
- ↑ K-Tip : Mineral water: source of great confusion from May 16, 2012. Accessed November 10, 2016 (PDF, archive)
- ↑ K-Tip : Toxic uranium in mineral water from June 7, 2006. Accessed November 10, 2016
