Rheingold brewery
The Rheingold Brewery was a brewery in what is now the Duisburg district of Friemersheim .
history
In 1827 Jakob Großterlinden founded a village restaurant with an attached brewery in the historic center of the village of Friemersheim in what was then Krefeld .
Due to the constant risk of flooding , his grandson Jacob Großterlinden had a new brewery building built on today's Rheingoldstrasse in 1888. In addition to the top-fermented Altbier , the brewery also produced the bottom-fermented beer types Pils and Export . With ten employees, initially around 15,000 hectoliters were brewed per year.
In 1890 the name was changed to the Jacob Großterlinden brewery and the “Rheingold” brand was introduced , which was not legally protected until 1928.
In the mayoralty Friemersheim that in 1857 the county Moers was sold, was created in 1895, the Friedrich-Alfred-Hütte of the Krupp group , which led to a steady increase of the population. The brewery's beer output and the need for employees increased steadily, and between 1910 and 1913 the production facility was expanded.
After losses from the First World War , there was a further increase in beer output and a renewed expansion of production capacities in the 1920s. The mayor's office of Friemersheim was merged with the mayor's office of Hochemmerich in 1927 to form the mayor's office of Rheinhausen , which was promoted to town in 1934.
The Großterlinden family withdrew from the brewery in the 1930s. The Schrooten family held the largest share of the capital in the company, which has now been converted into a stock corporation.
During the war years between 1939 and 1945, the brewery was partially destroyed by Allied bombs . After the reconstruction, the brewery continued the pre-war era. The boom of the post-war period increased beer output again.
In 1977, two years after the city of Rheinhausen was incorporated into the city of Duisburg, the company's 150th anniversary was celebrated. However, declining sales and competition forced the company to switch to the sole production of Altbier in 1982. In 1984 the brewery became the property of the Jacob Stauder brewery in Essen . However, the economic circumstances lead to the complete closure of the brewery in 1986. The historic buildings were demolished in 1987 to make way for residential houses.