Schlegel-Scharpenseel Brewery

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The Schlegel-Scharpenseel Brewery was a brewery in Bochum that was created in 1918 from the merger of the Schlegel and Scharpenseel breweries.

history

Foundation of the Scharpenseel brewery

The Scharpenseel brewery was created in the 1870s by merging the breweries of the two brothers Moritz (1829–1888) and Heinrich Scharpenseel (1836–1903). Both come from an old Bochum family whose farm in Bochum - Dahlhausen was already registered in 1486 in the treasury of the county of Mark . Moritz Scharpenseel founded a brewery at Trankgasse 3 in downtown Bochum in the 1850s and opened the "Bavarian Beer Hall Moritz Scharpenseel" on May 6, 1854. His brother Heinrich founded his brewery at Hellweg 1 at the beginning of January 1853. In both breweries, the traditional top-fermented beer was not brewed, but Bavarian brewing technology was used. After the two breweries were merged, the newly built premises at Trankgasse 3 were used together and the opening of the steam brewery was celebrated there on January 15, 1870. Heinrich Scharpenseel became director of the brewery. In 1900 the Scharpenseel brewery was the third largest brewery in Bochum with a beer production of 75,000 hl; three years later the Scharpenseel brewery was converted into a stock corporation.

Foundation of the Schlegel brewery

Memory of the first brewery

The Schlegel brewery was founded on May 1st, 1854 by the Franconian master brewer Johann Joachim Schlegel on Alleestraße. The brewery founder previously worked as a master brewer at Overdyck . In 1899 the company was converted into a stock corporation under the leadership of the brothers Wilhelm and Hermann Schlegel. Wilhelm Schlegel took over the management board, and Gustav Frielinghaus general director took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board . In 1900 the Schlegel Brewery was the second largest Bochum brewery after the Viktoria Brewery (101,647 hl) with a beer production of 78,540 hl. After the death of Wilhelm Schlegel on July 31, 1903, board member Hans Harrer and the master brewer and later technical director Karl Jung took over sole management from August 1, 1908.

Since March 2014 the brewery has been listed in the Route of Industrial Culture , themed route Bochum .

fusion

Share of the Schlegel-Scharpenseel-Brauerei AG for more than 200 RM from January 1938

The general meetings of Schlegel-Brauerei AG and Scharpenseel-Brauerei AG decided in 1918 to merge the breweries to form Schlegel-Scharpenseel-Brauerei AG with share capital of 3.6 million marks. This was entered in the commercial register on September 5, 1918 . The common beer brand of the merged breweries became “Schlegel” and the Schlegel company logo - the three butting coopers' hammers - was continued as a common trademark. Moritz Scharpenseel's sons, Ludwig and Adolf Scharpenseel, joined the supervisory board of the company that was enlarged by the merger.

Takeovers and increasing production

Malt silo of the brewery in Bochum

In the following decade, Schlegel-Scharpenseel-Brauerei AG took over the Recklinghauser Aktien-Brauerei, formerly Pott & Göbel in Recklinghausen , as well as the brewing rights of the Ruhrtal-Brauerei Brinkmann in Herbede , the Hohenstein-Brauerei GmbH in Werden and a malt factory in Giersleben (in today's Saxony Stop). In 1927 and 1928, first the United Bürgerliche Brauhaus in Herne and in 1928 the Victoria Brewery AG in Bochum were taken over by merging . Finally, the Bochum brewery Arnold Fiege was added. The largest brewery of Schlegel-Scharpenseel-Brauerei AG was still in Bochum at the beginning of the 1930s, where more than 2,000 hectoliters of beer were shipped in barrels every day. a. the beer laboratory and a modern yeast cultivation were located. In 1926 the "Deutsch Schlegel Pilsner" was awarded a large gold medal at the GeSoLei in Düsseldorf . From 1933, Schlör apple juice was produced in the former Viktoria brewery between Castroper Straße and Blumenstraße .

In 1927 the brewery's malt silo with a height of 58 meters, the so-called “Schlegel Tower”, was built by the Bochum architect Heinrich Schmiedeknecht . The brewery's logo was attached to the tower head for over 60 years, after which it was replaced by the coat of arms of the city of Bochum.

The beer production of Schlegel-Scharpenseel-Brauerei AG increased steadily:

  • 1928: 325,000 hl
  • 1956: 429,000 hl
  • 1958: 500,000 hl

World War II and post-war period

Outdoor advertising in Wattenscheid

The Second World War caused great damage, but as early as 1956 Schlegel-Scharpenseel-Brauerei AG, with an output of 429,000 hl, was one of the eight largest German brewery companies with international agencies. In 1966 the brewery had over 700 employees. In the same year Moritz Scharpenseel's grandson, Adolf Scharpenseel (1910–1968), who had been a member of the brewery's board of directors since 1952, was appointed chairman of the board. He ran the brewery until his death in August 1968.

In the course of the economic concentration of the German brewery industry, the Dortmund Union-Schultheiss-Brauerei AG took over the business in 1971 . On December 11, 1979, the supervisory board of the Dortmund Union-Schultheiss-Brauerei AG decided to shut down the Bochum operations. Production was discontinued in July 1980.

The brewery site was sold in 1983 to the state development company NRW , which had most of the buildings demolished and built residential buildings on the site. But the “Schlegel tower”, the brewhouse and the administration building with the restaurant on Alleestraße have been preserved. The administration building, also designed by the architect Heinrich Schmiedeknecht, was sold to the Logos Group in 1998 and renovated while largely maintaining the historical appearance. Today it is used by companies in the creative industries under the name “Schlegel-Haus” . An increase to the previous height of five floors is planned.

In 2002, two business people acquired the trademark rights for Schlegel, which has since been sold in trendy bars in Bochum and in local beverage stores. The beer was initially produced under this brand by the Schwelm brewery until it ceased brewing on September 30, 2011. After some searching, another brewery was found, which was initially contractually agreed and not named for reasons of brand policy. As a result, the company announced that Schlegel Urtyp was brewed at the Iserlohn private brewery. Since the Iserlohn private brewery went bankrupt in 2014, Schlegel “Urtyp” beer has been produced at the Giessen private brewery. The examination of re-filling in swing-top bottles will be continued, as will that of the reintroduction of the 0.33-liter bottle.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 51 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 42 ″  E