Schnitter Brewery

The Schnitter Brewery was a brewery in Weißwasser / Oberlausitz .

background

The emergence of breweries in Weißwasser is closely connected with the rise of the villages of Weißwasser and Hermannsdorf to what was once the most important place for glass production in Europe. Due to the working conditions at hot glass furnaces , the glassmakers drank liters of beer every day during and after work. Not far from the many glassworks and inns, smaller breweries were created that brewed a special, lower-alcohol glassmaker's beer, which was brought to the glass workers by the beneficiaries - often children, apprentices or unskilled workers.

The later Schnitter brewery was located on Muskauer and Görlitzer Strasse and was only one of several breweries in Weißwasser. It was founded in 1887 and has changed ownership and name several times in the more than 100 years of its existence. The brewery carried the name Schnitter-Brauerei after the end of the Second World War until it was incorporated into the " VEB United Beverage Companies Cottbus ".

history

In 1886 the Gustav Linke brewery was founded in what was then Neu-Weißwasser, a settlement at the new train station between Weißwasser and Hermannsdorf. Considering that the beer for the glassmakers had previously been brought from Muskau and was seldom enough, he set up a brewery in the back of his house. For economic and private reasons, he sold his brewery to Gregor Locke in 1906. From then on, the company operated under the name of Brauerei Linke, owner Gregor Locke and sold his beer in the neighboring “Zum Kronprinzen” inn, which was also leased to the innkeeper Wilhelm Neuling . But he too sold the brewery to Hermann Vieluf in 1908, who renamed it the H. Vieluf lager brewery . In 1916, Vieluf became chairman of the cooperative brewery in Weißwasser, which was founded in 1909 as the cooperative brewery eGmbH zu Weisswasser . Several local entrepreneurs bought the brewery and founded a company. During the First World War , the Hermann Merl brewery (founded in 1890 by Ferdinand Adolphi), which was located on Berliner Strasse, was bought up because of its poor economic situation.

The supervisory board chairman of the cooperative brewery was the grocer Hermann Albrecht, who ran his business opposite the brewery. The board members were newspaper publisher Emil Hampel and master plumber Paul Cyrus, for whom master brewer Hermann Vieluf joined the cooperative the following year. Despite great financial success - the cooperative brewery paid a 15 percent dividend - the brewery was sold to the Berlin Engelhardt Brewery AG in 1921 and continued under the internal name of Department VII Weißwasser . The managing director became Otto Schnitter, a graduate brewing engineer, after whom the Weißwasseraner beer was to be named. He had already been a shareholder in the Cottbus cooperative brewery since 1918.

When Schnitter became a partner in 1935, the company was renamed Engelhardt Brewery Schnitter & Co. KG . On June 16, 1945, the brewery was the first to brew and deliver beer again after the war. In 1946 it was renamed Schnitter Brauerei KG Weißwasser . After a few years it had 54 employees. In 1961 the brewery cooperated with the Park Brewery Bad Muskau , which had started producing non-alcoholic beverages. In the following two years, extensive reconstruction measures were carried out in the Schnitter brewery. At that time, Schnitter-Hell and Pilsner beer were produced.

In the course of the reorganization of industry in the GDR, the Schnitter Brewery Weisswasser became part of VEB United Beverage Operations Cottbus as the Weisswasser Brewery . In the mid-1970s, the longer storable special beer Karat was produced. Since 1975 the company has also acted as a publisher under VEB Landskron-Brauerei Görlitz in VE Beverage Combine Dresden, VEB Beverage White Water . In the period that followed, the company was incorporated with others into the VEB Beverage Combine in Dessau . With the political change in the GDR in 1990, the planned economy structures were dissolved and the brewery was converted into the Weisswasser GmbH brewery . A men's pilsner was made according to the German purity law .

In 1991 the company was shut down. From this point on, the facilities and buildings began to deteriorate. Efforts to revitalize the area with a large-scale trading center failed due to the high investment costs. The evaluation of parts of the complex as a cultural monument to be preserved made planning changes even more difficult. The city acquired the property in order to clear it of the now ruinous buildings and to be able to redesign the area in the sense of a targeted revitalization of the inner city.

The resulting open space became part of the event space for the Day of Saxony 2005 and is still undeveloped and unused.

Products

• Karatpils special
• Reaper buck
• Reaper Hell
• Pilsen beer
• Men's Pils

Others

Schnitter-PILS Weißwasser is now a brand of Bergquell-Brauerei Löbau GmbH. On the occasion of the Saxony Day 2005 in Weißwasser, a small amount of Schnitter beer was brewed and sold in Weißwasser.

Web links

• Historic beer labels from the brewery on the beer label catalog from Harald and Dagmar Burger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lutz Stucka : Glass becomes clearer - by enjoying beer! Lausitzer Rundschau, February 1, 2003, accessed on October 5, 2011 . 
2. ^ Stefan Meyer, Hans Dieter Kliesch, Christian Friedrich: 600 years of Cottbus beer. VEB Beverage Combine Cottbus, Combine Director Naumann. In: Beer history in the cities: Cottbus. www.pilsberatung.de, 1985, accessed on October 5, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Thoralf Schirmer: Schnitterbrauerei contract receives blessing from the city council. (No longer available online.) Lausitzer Rundschau , lr-online.de, February 25, 2010, archived from the original on August 21, 2014 ; Retrieved October 5, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Revitalization of fallow land in Saxony. (PDF, 5 MB) Schnitterbrauerei: off for hops and malt. Saxon State Ministry of the Interior (SMI), March 31, 2008, p. 30 , accessed on October 5, 2011 (with photos before the demolition). 
5. ↑ Schnitter-PILS white water. tmdb - The trademark search engine, March 24, 2006, accessed October 5, 2011 . 
6. ↑ Thoralf Schirmer: On the day of the Saxons again Schnitter-Pils. Lausitzer Rundschau, lr-online.de, September 2, 2005, accessed on October 5, 2011 .