Neunkirchen Castle Brewery

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The Neunkirchen Castle Brewery , also Neunkirchen Castle Brewery , vorm. Friedrich Schmidt was a brewery in Neunkirchen (Saar) . It was one of the larger breweries in Saarland . The brewery operated from 1838 to 1997.

history

The brewery was always located at Büchelstraße 7 (not far from the former Jägersberg Castle in Schloßstraße 20-24). The brewery was founded in 1838 by Jacob Christian Schmidt. From 1938, his grandson Otto Schmidt also ran Donnerbräu Aktiengesellschaft in Saarlouis . After his death in 1944, his wife Else Schmidt-Klett took over the management of both breweries. A brewery branch in Geislautern was closed in 1951 because the war damage would have required extensive new investments.

In 1988 the company was taken over by the Karlsberg Brewery , which closed the Neunkirchen brewery in 1997.

Schmidt-Klett era and its effects

The married couple Otto Schmidt and Else Schmidt-Klett were connected to both cities through their ownership of the castle brewery in Neunkirchen and the Donnerbräu in Saarlouis. The couple Dr. Schmidt-Klett bequeathed their private property to the cities of Neunkirchen and Saarlouis, the value of which was determined by various auctions after the death of Mrs. Schmidt-Klett in Stuttgart in 1954 at around 3.2 million DM. The condition was to invest the money long-term and primarily for use by war victims and veterans. In Neunkirchen, the Schmidt-Klett Foundation was created, in Saarlouis the old people's home, which was still in existence in 2010, was built.

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  The remains of the brewery as of 2009

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  The castle brewery's mug

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  Tankards

literature

• Fritz Kloevekorn , Oskar F. Neufang: History of the corporation Schloss-Brauerei Neunkirchen vorm. Friedrich Schmidt . Self-published, 1953.

Web links

Commons : Schlossbrauerei Neunkirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• History of the Schlossbräu in the portal of the RODENA Heimatkundeverein Roden e. V.
• Information page Reinhard Buerck
• Information page Dr. Andreas Neumann on the Aktiengesellschaft Schloss-Brauerei Neunkirchen, accessed on October 25, 2009
• The development of the Karlsberg Brewery, 1918–1992: from a simple medium-sized company to a group of companies as reflected in the regional history and compared to the development of the industry by Claus Hoffmann-Güth, SDV, 1998.

Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 21.7 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 47.2"  E