Salmenbräu
| Salmenbräu | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1799 |
| resolution | 1971 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by Sibra-Holding |
| Seat | Rheinfelden , Switzerland |
| Branch | brewery |
Salmenbräu was a brewery in Rheinfelden in Switzerland . It was founded in 1799 and was independent for almost two centuries until it was merged into Sibra-Holding (later Cardinal ) in 1971. The production facilities remained in operation until 2002, most recently from 1991 under the umbrella of the Feldschlösschen Group, also from Rheinfelden .
history
The pig dealer Franz Joseph Dietschy (1770–1842) took over the “zum Salmen” inn in Rheinfelden in 1799, along with the associated brewing rights . He not only brewed for the own needs of the affiliated inn, but soon also for other hosts in the area. Over time, the sales area extended to Aarau , Basel , Liestal and Schopfheim . His son Alois Dietschy was one of the first brewers in Switzerland to purchase a steam engine in 1854 , thereby switching from manual to industrial production. After Alois' widow Catharina had run the business for eleven years, the brewery passed into the ownership of her son-in-law Carl Habich in 1869. With the help of the Munich beer pioneer Gabriel Sedlmayr , he had extensive rock cellars built to store the beer.
In 1884, the Salmen brewery relocated its production to its permanent location on the banks of the Rhine west of the old town. The annual output at that time was 30,000 hectoliters. Also in Rheinfelden, about half a kilometer south, the Feldschlösschen brewery had been founded eight years earlier and was one of the biggest competitors for almost a century. In 1895 the Salmen brewery received a siding to the Bözbergbahn , in 1900 it was converted into a stock corporation and renamed Salmenbräu. The Habich family continued to hold the majority of the shares and also provided the director.
The First World War resulted in a drastic drop in sales to a third. The company survived the crisis and used the coal shortage of the war to convert the company completely to electric motors in 1919. In the 1920s, modern production methods such as bottling, malting tower, cold storage and refrigeration machines were introduced. The Second World War also led to a significant drop in sales, and the chronic staff shortage also forced further rationalization. In the 1950s, thanks to the beer cartel, there was again noticeable growth. In 1971 Salmenbräu joined the Sibra Holding. Two years later, part of the production of Cardinal beer was relocated here from Friborg , and in 1978 the Salmenbräu brand disappeared entirely for strategic reasons. The Salmen brewery was now called Cardinal Brauerei Rheinfelden AG.
In 1986 cardinal production was relocated back to Friborg, while the plant in Rheinfelden specialized in the production of non-alcoholic beer - especially the Moussy brand, which was only intended for export . In 1991 the Sibra-Holding, to which Salmenbräu belonged, became part of the Feldschlösschen group. Alcohol-free beers from Carlsberg , Tuborg and Hürlimann were also brewed under license in the production facility, now known as “Operation North” (as opposed to the actual Feldschlösschen brewery ) . In 2001, the bottled volume was 397,000 hectoliters, which was about a tenth of the total Swiss beer production. September 6, 2002 was the last day of production. The area then remained unused for over a decade. In August 2013 the groundbreaking took place for a housing estate with 150 apartments, an old people's home and a shopping center. A large part of the factory was preserved and given new uses.
Web links
- Salmenbräu in the industrial culture database, Association of Aargau Museums and Collections
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Walter Hochreiter, Eva Gschwind, André Salvisberg , Dominik Sieber, Claudius Sieber-Lehmann : Inside, outside, there. History of the city of Rheinfelden . Ed .: City of Rheinfelden [Switzerland]. regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2014, ISBN 978-3-89735-800-3 , p. 184 .
- ↑ a b Last bottling in the former «Salmenbräu». Feldschlösschen Getränke AG, September 6, 2002, accessed on December 18, 2014 .
- ^ Hochreiter et al .: Inside, outside, there. P. 216.
- ^ Hochreiter et al .: Inside, outside, there. P. 231.
- ^ Hochreiter et al .: Inside, outside, there. P. 275.
- ↑ 150 rental and owner-occupied apartments are being built on the Salmenbräu site. In: Aargauer Zeitung . August 29, 2013, accessed December 18, 2014 .