Castle brewery Stein

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The Schlossbrauerei Stein Wiskott GmbH & Co. KG , in short: Schlossbrauerei Stein , is a beer brewery in the Stein an der Traun district of Traunreut in Chiemgau , Upper Bavaria , which has existed for over 500 years . In 2010 it had an output of around 60,000 hectoliters of beer and around 20,000 hectoliters of non-alcoholic beverages.

history

On May 1, 1489, an innkeeper in Stein an der Traun in what was then the Toerringschen Hofmark Stein was first mentioned, a "waiter to the stain" named Hanns Federl in a document from the Baumburg monastery on July 25, 1408. The so-called Steiner Taferne was found on the castle area. When the brewing concession was renewed, witnesses proved that Seifried IV. Von Toerring zu Stein was already brewing, who inherited the property after 1476 and died in 1521. Since the original concession document for the brewing right has been lost, the brewery's chronicle refers to May 1, 1489 as the first tangible date for the brewery's existence. In 2014 the Schlossbrauerei Stein celebrated its existence for at least 525 years.

After the Toerring family had made use of their brewing rights in Hofmark Stein for several centuries, the great-grandson Ladislaus Freiherr Toerring zu Stein (1566–1638) took over the Hofmark in 1596 and built both a new brewery and a new tavern with two towers are still preserved at today's Gasthof Zur Post . In 1662 the Hofmark Stein was sold to Carl Graf Fugger von Pfirt, who died in the same year. So the property came to his daughter Maria Johanna Countess von Thurn und Taxis and through marriage to his son-in-law Albrecht Wilhelm Freiherr von Lösch. The foreign inns in Altenham , Engelsberg , Kienberg and Schnaitsee were also awarded to them. In 1829 the Counts of Lösch sold the property to Maximilian Joseph Freiherr von Käser, who sold it to Martin Carl von Kraft in 1835. The latter carried out extensive construction work in 1840. Around this time, the Schlossbrauerei Stein was the most important Upper Bavarian brewery outside of Munich .

After the death of Krafts' son sold the property to the widow of the Emperor of Brazil , Amélie von Leuchtenberg , Duchess of Braganza, née Princess von Leuchtenberg, in 1845 . She and her nephew, the Tsar's grandson Nikolaus Duke von Leuchtenberg, Prince Romanowsky , who inherited the property in 1873, organized lavish parties and glamorous balls in Stein Castle. Stein Castle owes its current architectural appearance in the English New Tudor style to him . After his untimely death in 1891 the property passed to his two sons, Nikolaus (1868–1926) and Georg (1872–1929). Stein sold them to Josef Graf von Arco-Zinneberg on Maxlrain in 1892 . The new building of the brewery in its present form also took place at this time.

When Count Arco-Zinneberg died in 1924, he left his eldest son Maximilian, who was still a minor, a highly indebted property. In 1928 the heir commissioned the Augsburg brokerage firm Rieger & Konrad with the liquidation, whereby a minimum sales revenue of around 4.5 million Reichsmarks was agreed. The brokers sold 36 hectares of land to the municipality of Stein an der Traun , 106 hectares to the city of Traunstein and 60 hectares to the city of Trostberg as well as inns in Ruhpolding , Traunstein and Trostberg. The remaining property, including Stein Castle and Brewery, was acquired by Josef Rieger and his brother-in-law Franz Konrad without equity in the spring of 1929. Through further sales, the stock of land and real estate had shrunk to 6% by 1930.

In 1930, Rieger and Konrad founded the Schlossbrauerei Stein ad Traun AG with a share capital of RM 800,000, with multiple frauds . They sold shares worth 300,000 RM to the Jewish merchant David Cramer in Frankfurt am Main , who in 1933 sold half of his shares to a Frankfurt company. The brewery soon got into financial difficulties, as its owners Rieger and Konrad could no longer pay the bank interest, and in 1933 the foreclosure auction was ordered. On March 12, 1934, a man from Max Wiskott, whose wife Ilse, b. Wilcke, Gesch. Ziegler, and the Swiss Otto Conix consortium the package of shares at a price of 50,000 RM. In the period that followed, the consortium invested over 300,000 RM in the renovation of the neglected brewery. In December 1937, the three owners signed a limited partnership agreement , as a result of which the company was converted into the Schlossbrauerei Stein Wiskott KG company.

After the Second World War , the Stein Castle Brewery was free of debt in 1945. In the following period, its business form was converted into a GmbH & Co. KG for tax reasons , and since then it has operated under the company name Schlossbrauerei Stein Wiskott GmbH & Co. KG .

Others

Beer from the Baumburg monastery brewery, which does not have its own bottling plant, is also bottled in the brewery's bottling plant.

The brewery is a member of the Brauring , a cooperation between private breweries from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

literature

  • Michael Elsen and Jolanda Englbrecht: The history of the Schlossbrauerei Stein from 1964 with retrospectives . In: Steiner Burgbrief , published by the Friends of Stein Castle Association, No. 23, 2014, pp. 3–57.
  • Jolanda Englbrecht and Michael Elsen: Chronicle of the Stein Castle Brewery . In: Steiner Burgbrief , published by the Friends of Stein Castle eV, Traunreut 2016 (print: Hofmann, Traunreut).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.wochenblatt.de/news-stream/chiemgau-bgl/artikel/5905/schlossbrauerei-stein-unter-neuer-fuehrung
  2. ^ Jolanda Englbrecht and Michael Elsen: Chronicle of the castle brewery Stein . In: Steiner Burgbrief , published by the Friends of Stein Castle Association, Traunreut 2016 (print: Hofmann, Traunreut), p. 3.
  3. ↑ a b c Michael Elsen and Jolanda Englbrecht: The history of the Schlossbrauerei Stein from 1964 with retrospectives . In: Steiner Burgbrief , published by the Friends of Stein Castle Association, No. 23, 2014, p. 3.
  4. ^ Jolanda Englbrecht and Michael Elsen: Chronicle of the castle brewery Stein . In: Steiner Burgbrief , published by the Friends of the Castle Stein eV association, Traunreut 2016 (print: Hofmann, Traunreut), p. 112 ff.
  5. ↑ a b c Michael Elsen and Jolanda Englbrecht: The history of the Schlossbrauerei Stein from 1964 with retrospectives . In: Steiner Burgbrief , published by the Friends of Stein Castle Association, No. 23, 2014, pp. 4–5.
  6. ↑ a b Michael Elsen and Jolanda Englbrecht: The history of the Stein Castle Brewery from 1964 with retrospectives . In: Steiner Burgbrief , published by the Friends of Stein Castle Association, No. 23, 2014, p. 7.
  7. ↑ a b Michael Elsen and Jolanda Englbrecht: The history of the Stein Castle Brewery from 1964 with retrospectives . In: Steiner Burgbrief , published by the Friends of Stein Castle Association, No. 23, 2014, pp. 8–9.
  8. ↑ Member breweries . Brewing ring, accessed February 20, 2020 .