Pivovar Holba
The Pivovar Holba, as (German Brewery Holba ) is a brewery in the Czech Republic . Together with the Zubr and Litovel breweries, it belongs to the PMS group . The brewery is located in the Holba district of the same name ( half-way ) in the city of Hanušovice .
history
The plans to found a brewery in Halbseit were made in 1871 by the brewer Josef Philipp Adolf Müllschitzky from Geppersdorf , the director of the Hannsdorfer weaving mill, Karl Flandorffer and the weaving mill owners , brothers Karl and Eduard Oberleithner from Mährisch Schönberg . In the spring of 1873 the foundation stone was laid for a brewery with a production capacity of 40,000 Moravian buckets (22,636 hectoliters). The project came from the Viennese master builder Karl Völkner, the execution was carried out by the Mährisch Schönberg master mason Josef Baier. The brewery and malting facilities were built by the Ringhoffer works .
Steam beer brewery from Müllschitzky & Comp.
On August 25, 1874, the steam beer brewery of Müllschitzky & Comp. founded in Hannsdorf-Halbseit as an open trading company. The shareholders were the manufacturer Anton Breuer from Deutsch Liebau , Karl Flandorffer, the former brewer Josef Frey from Vienna, the Olomouc businessman Kupka, the brewer Josef Müllschitzky, the manufacturers Eduard Oberleithner sen. and Karl Oberleithner senior, the Imperial and Royal Captain Adalbert Ritter von Eisenstein from Mährisch Schönberg and Pauline Zephyrsky from Vienna. The company's starting capital was 200,000 guilders. On December 28, 1874, Müllschitzky brewed the first batch of beer.
In its first year, the company produced 15,900 hectoliters of beer. After a decline in production from the mid-1870s onwards, Julius Thausing was commissioned by the Vienna Brewery School to carry out a technological inspection of the brewery in 1879. In the same year the founder of the brewery Josef Müllschitzky died. Then the industrial family Oberleithner took over the majority share. With the entry of the Mährisch Schönberger landowner and factory owner Karl Freiherr von Chiari as another main shareholder, the company had become a purely family business in 1881; all the owners (the Oberleithner brothers, von Chiari, von Eisenstein and Zephyrsky) were related to one another or by marriage, and there were also family ties to the industrialists Ringhoffer and Klein .
Chiari & Cie. Brewery
Since April 25, 1882, the company has been operating under the new name Brauerei Chiari & Cie. to Hannsdorf-Halbseit . During this time, the malt house was equipped with a new vertical air kiln. From the mid-1880s, beer output rose steadily; In 1885 it exceeded 20,000 hectoliters for the first time, a year later in 1886 the brewery produced 23,006 hectoliters of beer. This made an expansion of the fermentation, storage and ice cellars necessary. Due to this development, the competing breweries in Groß Ullersdorf and Mährisch Aussee were also forced to give up. In the period that followed, the brewery also got a siding to the Sternberg – Lichtenau railway line . In 1893 the company was able to force another competitor, the Wiesenberg brewery, to give up. In the following year, the Johannesberg bishop's brewery in Jauernig was bought , with its malthouse being redesigned and a bottling station for Hannsdorfer beer set up in the brewery cellars. At the end of the 19th century, annual production exceeded 50,000 hectoliters.
North Moravian Brewery and Malt Factory
In 1906 the company took over the majority of the Anton Wlach & Cie. from Mährisch-Schönberg and Dr. Ulrich & Co. from Johrnsdorf and merged on March 1st to form the North Moravian Brewery and Malzfabriks Aktiengesellschaft in Mährisch Schönberg . The total capital, fixed at 2 million kroner, was divided into 10,000 shares with a nominal value of 200 kroner. Of these, 4,500 shares were held by the owners of the Chiari & Comp. Brewery, the value of which was estimated at 900,000 kroner; The owners of the Johrnsdorf beer brewery Dr. Ulrich & Co (estimated value: 500,000 crowns), to the owners of Anton Wlach & Comp. in Mährisch Schönberg (estimated value: 370,000 kroner) 1,800 share certificates were issued. The administrative seat of the AG was Mährisch Schönberg. The brewing operation was increasingly concentrated in half; Between 1907 and 1910, the Halbseiter Brewery was reconstructed, with a new machine house, various operating and administrative buildings and the factory chimney built by the Vienna branch of HR Heinicke, factory chimney construction and steam boiler walling. During the 1907/08 financial year, beer sales in all three of the company's breweries exceeded 100,000 hectoliters for the first time at 100,978 hectoliters. Beer production in Mährisch Schönberg was stopped in 1907, and in 1916 this was also done in Johrnsdorf; maltings continued to operate at all three locations. In addition to the traditional light and dark single beer , light and dark draft beer and lager beer , the special beers Pils , Kaiser , Märzen , dark 14 ° Spezial , Sudetenbräu , Porter and Johrnsdorfer Bock were also produced. In the business year 1910/11 the company had beer sales of 110,580 hectoliters.
During the First World War the business result sank drastically, this led to the closure of the Johrnsdorfer brewery; In 1917 only 22,157 hectoliters were sold. In 1916 the brewery in Grulich was taken over , and two years later the brewery in Jauernig . After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the establishment of Czechoslovakia, the company was given a Czech name in 1918, Severomoravský pivovar a sladovna, akciová společnost v Šumperku .
In the inter-war period, production rose steadily again. After 1920, the construction company Ernst Zeckert from the old town of Moravia built reinforced concrete tanks in the old ice cellars of the brewery. At the brewery pond next to the entrance, large new ice cellars with an ornamental tower and an elevator were built in 1923. In the course of the merger of Halbseit and Hannsdorf in the same year, the brewery operated as the Hannsdorf Brewery . In the 1925/26 financial year, 104,703 hectoliters of beer were brewed for the first time since the end of the war, more than 100,000 hectoliters. In 1929/30 the brewery achieved an output record of 148,416 hectoliters, of which 315 hectoliters were exported.
With 108,775 hectoliters of beer, the Hannsdorf brewery was the third largest Moravian brewery after the large breweries in Brno and Prerau in the 1930s, and came 11th nationwide . Almost exclusively draft beer (97.5%) was produced, along with small amounts of lager (2%) and specialty beer (0.5%); the special range mainly comprised typical Sudeten beers such as Pfingstbock and Maibock (20%), the Christmassy Stephanus special (18%) and Easter special (18%). In 1930 the North Moravian Brewery and Malzfabriks AG took over the breweries in Freiwaldau and Friedeberg . Between 1930 and 1931 a new boiler house and new water supply systems were built in the Hannsdorf brewery . The global economic crisis caused beer sales to drop sharply. A procedure initiated at this time to sell stronger beer made the brewery known nationwide. The company was fined for exceeding its salary on the label; The numerous press reports about the criminal proceedings, however, were the best advertisement for the company. In 1937 the Sternberger brewery was taken over. During this time, the Standfasswerke Rostock & Baerlocher, Klosterneuburg near Vienna, set up a department of storage tanks made of reinforced concrete, which was used until 1961, as well as new fermentation tanks made of reinforced concrete. In the mid-1930s, the North Moravian Brewery and Malzfabriks AG, including the accounting department in Mährisch Schönberg and its own beer warehouses, had almost 450 employees, the Hannsdorf brewery had 180 workers. In addition to the brewery and malt house in Hannsdorf-Halbseit, the company ran a malt house in Johrnsdorf, a beer warehouse and a malt house in Mährisch Schönberg and its own beer warehouses in Freudenthal , Müglitz , Römerstadt and Friedeberg . The company owned further, leased beer storage facilities in Jauernig , Grulich , Sternberg and Hohenstadt . The beer warehouses in Brno, Olbersdorf , Liebau , Mährisch Trübau , Olmütz and Mährisch Neustadt were leased . Further defeats existed in Partschendorf , Hombok , Jägerndorf , Wiesenberg , Neu Titschein , Hotzenplotz , Rokitnitz , Wachtel and Zuckmantel and in Chrzanów, Poland . In addition, the North Moravian Brewery and Malzfabriks AG owned ice cellars in Hof , Bautsch , Mährisch Rothwasser , Dittersdorf , Deutsch home , Bärn and Groß Waltersdorf , which also supplied the Hannsdorfer inns with ice. The property holdings included their own inns, residential buildings, land and forests. The North Moravian Brewery and Malzfabriks AG was the brewery with the most bottlers and defeats in all of Czechoslovakia. All the breweries that were taken over ceased brewing operations after they were taken over, and brewing was carried out exclusively in the Hannsdorf brewery .
After the annexation to the German Empire, the production increased to 170,064 hectoliters annually. On June 28, 1939, the general meeting of the North Moravian Brewery and Malzfabrik AG decided to revise the statutes in accordance with the German Stock Corporation Act. In 1940 new shares were issued. To eliminate the shortage of staff during the Second World War - 74 employees were called up for military service - Czech forced laborers, including the later director Emil Opluštil, and English prisoners of war were used in the brewery. During the war, regulations had to be observed to reduce the maximum original wort content as well as to brew strong beers and to dilute them into low-grade beers. On July 1, 1942, the defeats in Olbersdorf and the town of Liebau were handed over to the brewery in Opava , the defeat in Jägerndorf to the brewery in Jägerndorf and the defeat in Zuckmantel to the brewery in Hennersdorf ; the beer camps in Freudenthal, Mährisch Trübau, Neu Titschein and Wachtel were temporarily closed. In 1944, the unused defeats in Wiesenberg, Wachtel, Freudenthal, Mährisch Trübau and Neu Titschein were given up. Most recently, the North Moravian Brewery and Malzfabriks AG had around 300 employees. The last entry in the shareholders' register was made on March 17, 1945.
In contrast to most other Czech breweries, the Hannsdorf brewery survived the war completely undamaged and was not plundered by the liberators, so that production could be continued under the management of the brewer Jaromír Franzl immediately after the end of the war. The company North Moravian Brewery and Malzfabriks Aktien-Gesellschaft in Mährisch Schönberg was confiscated after the end of the war and placed under the administration of the Šumperk District Administrative Commission, which changed personnel in some positions. In August 1945 an attempt was made to merge the Hanušovice brewery and establish a company Severozdroj, družstevní pivovar a sladovna, spol. sro v Hanušovicích, centrála Šumperk . In 1946 the brewery produced 85,367 hectoliters of beer; of which 9715 hl in Holba itself, 23,131 hl in Šumperk , 18,150 hl in Šternberk , 10,924 hl in Jeseník , 7953 hl in Králíky , 5848 hl in Uničov , 3039 hl in Javorník , 2438 hl in Žulová , 1985 hl in Zábřeh , 1390 hl stored in Mohelnice and 794 hl in Rokytnice . 21% of the total production was than in the beer storage bottles of beer bottled.
State enterprise Hanušovický pivovar
The state enterprise Hanušovický pivovar, národní podnik, v Hanušovicích was established by the Ministry of Food on October 30, 1947, retroactively to January 1, 1947, which was also the only operation in the de facto non-existent Severomoravský pivovar until further breweries were incorporated in 1948 np was. Since the Hanušovice brewery was not owned by the state at that time, but was merely confiscated, the Minister of Food, Ludmila Jankovcová , issued a decree on 30 June 1948 to nationalize the brewery. In a further decree of July 28, 1948, Minister Jankovcová ordered the union of the nationalized brewery with the Litovel and Svitavy breweries to form the state-owned Severomoravské pivovary, národní podnik based in Litovel. The numerous defeats were gradually abandoned in the following period.
The Severomoravské pivovary were dissolved again on January 1, 1949 and the Hanušovice brewery assigned to the Hanácké pivovary, národní podnik based in Přerov . The breweries in Holešov , Kroměříž , Litovel, Olomouc , Prostějov , Přerov, Těšetice and Vyškov were merged with the Hanušovice brewery . With a beer output of 102,027 hl, the brewery exceeded the 100,000 hectolitre mark for the first time since the war in 1951.
At the beginning of 1953 the Moravian breweries were restructured again; while the breweries Hanušovice and Litovel were reunited under the old name Severomoravské pivovary, národní podnik and seat in Litovel. This structure only lasted a short time; the Severomoravské pivovary and the Olomoucké pivovary were reunited on September 1, 1955 with the Hanácké pivovary . The proportion of bottled beer rose steadily from 1955, while the volume of draft beer declined. In 1957, a total of 114,758 hl were brewed in the Hanušovice brewery. The proportion of bottled beer was 55,504 hl, with predominantly 7 ° beer (53.8%) and 10 ° beer (42.4%) as well as small quantities of 12 ° and 14 ° beer being bottled. The sales area extended over the north Moravian districts Jeseník, Bruntál, Rýmařov, Šumperk, Zábřeh and Králíky; At times, beer was also delivered by rail to the Třinec steelworks and to Humenné in eastern Slovakia .
With the establishment of Severomoravské pivovary a sodovkárny, národní podnik based in Přerov on June 1, 1960, another reorganization of the Moravian beverage industry took place. The Hanušovice brewery formed Plant 6 of the company, which also included the breweries in Přerov, Olomouc, Litovel, Opava , Ostrava , Vsetín , Hukvaldy , Vítkov , Jindřichov , Těšetice and Loučka and, from 1971, the Radegast brewery in Nošovice . At the beginning of the 1960s, the brewery was modernized, and in 1967 the malt house was reconstructed. The beer was now transported to the bottling plants in Jeseník and Šumperk by tanker . In 1970 the brewery had almost 200 employees; the annual production was 305,015 hl beer. At the beginning of the 1970s, the conversion from wooden transport barrels to aluminum barrels was completed. A long-prepared investment measure - the construction of a bottle filling plant in Hanušovice - was still pending.
In 1973 the defeat and bottling plant in Jeseník was shut down, so that the brewery only had one bottling plant in Šumperk. The malt house in Hanušovice ceased operations in 1979. The brewing malt was then obtained first from the Nošovice malt house and later from the Zábřeh malt house; the brewer's yeast came from Ostrava.
On January 1, 1981, the Severomoravské pivovary, koncernový podnik company was established with its headquarters in Přerov, to which the breweries Hanušovice, Litovel, Ostrava, Nošovice, Olomouc, Opava, Přerov and Vsetín belonged. The oak fermentation vats were exchanged for stainless steel tanks in 1982 and the desolate mash filter from 1923 was replaced by a new sedimentation vat. After the completion in 1983 it became apparent that the beer sludge had actually increased contrary to expectations; the cause was the continued use of the old malt mill. In November 1983 the production of the 11 ° lager beer Šerák started , which was named after the mountain of the same name in the Jeseníky Mountains . The first Šerák went on sale in early 1984. Since the beer was originally supposed to be brewed in the Nošovice brewery, the Radegaster logo was initially on the crown corks. The Šerák was the first 11 ° beer in Czechoslovakia and sold very well. The wooden storage barrels in storage cellars 1 - 3 were replaced by coated steel storage tanks in the mid-1980s, and reinforced concrete tanks have been in storage cellars 4 - 6 since the 1920s. The Šerák received in 1987 as a result of a customer survey a new design and logo on the label the name of the brewery appeared henceforth Hanušovice as a producer. With this, Šerák was developed into a brewery brand during the times of the ČSSR . At the end of 1988, the Severomoravské pivovary company was dissolved by a resolution of the Minister of Agriculture and the eight associated breweries were merged into the state-owned company Pivovary Přerov, státní podnik at the beginning of 1989 .
After the Velvet Revolution , between 1990 and 1993 over 250,000,000 crowns were invested in modernizing the brewery's technological equipment. Inside the historic malt house, 12 malt silos for 100 tons of malt each, with automatic transport and a grinder, were installed. In addition, new water sources were developed and new cylindro-conical fermentation tanks were built, which meant that the use of the partially patched ferro-concrete tanks could be restricted. Horizontal kieselguhr filtration was set up by Anton Steinecker Maschinenfabrik .
On March 25, 1991, the breweries Hanušovice, Litovel, Olomouc, Opava, Přerov and Vsetín were privatized as a joint stock company Moravskoslezské pivovary, as with its headquarters in Přerov. In 1996 a filling system for stainless steel barrels was built. The last defeat in Šumperk was given up in 1999 and the bottling plant moved to Litovel.
Pivovar Holba, as
The company Moravskoslezské pivovary, as was deleted from the commercial register on July 25, 2000 and re-registered under the name PMS Přerov as on the same day . At the same time were under the umbrella of PMS Prerov with the Pivovar Holba, as the, Pivovar Zubr, as and Pivovar Litovel, as established three independent companies with their own legal capacity.
The new name Holba was developed by the long-time director of the brewery, Zdeněk Konečný, who had a designer use it to create a new logo for the brewery. Holba with the modified O eventually also replaced Šerák as the brewery's brand name. At the beginning of the 2000s, the brewhouse was modernized, and the brewery ponds were also revitalized. The beer was exported to Sweden , Israel and Greece . With 469,567 hectoliters, the Holba brewery achieved the highest beer sales in its history in 2003. In 2014 the brewery celebrated its 140th anniversary; In preparation for the anniversary it was calculated that from 1875 to the end of 2013 a total of 23,414,945 hl of beer had been brewed in Holba.
production
The beer brands are produced in the Holba brewery
- Horská 10 (light 10 ° draft beer)
- Šerák (11 ° light lager)
- Premium (light 12 ° lager)
- Polotmavá 11 (semi-dark 11 ° lager)
- Speciál 13% (light 13 ° lager)
- Kvasničák (unfiltered light beer)
brewed.
Other products are:
- Free (light non-alcoholic beer)
- Brusinka s mátou ( mixed beer drink cranberry with mint )
- Horské byliny ( mixed beer drink mountain herbs )
- Horské byliny nealko (non-alcoholic mixed beer drink mountain herbs )
The bright Šerák is the most popular ; In 2007 more than 180,000 hectoliters were sold, which corresponded to almost half of the total production of the brewery.
The brewing malt is obtained from the Zábřeh malt house, the special malt from the Litovel malt house and the hops from the Tršice and Žatec areas . The brewing water comes from our own well.
Holba Brewery Museum
The museum was opened on September 30, 2010 in the former school on the forecourt of the brewery as the first brewery museum in Moravia. It shows historical utensils and equipment used in beer production, brewing law certificates, journeyman's letters and provides information about the time when beer was transported by horse and cart. In addition, the raw materials for beer production are presented.
Web links
- Website of the Holba Brewery
- Website of the Hanušovice Brewery Museum (Czech)
- Milan Starec: Pivovar Holba - 140 let. In: Kvasny Prum. 60/2014 (11-12), pp. 307-314 (Czech)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 13.5 ″ N , 16 ° 55 ′ 40.2 ″ E