Bussard champagne producer
The former “Bussard” sparkling wine cellar in Radebeul was the first Saxon and for a long time the second oldest sparkling wine cellar in Germany (after Kessler ). The sparkling wine cellar was founded in Lößnitz in 1836 as an association for the production of sparkling wines . The fine sparkling wines, which are handcrafted in traditional bottle fermentation in the champagne style , also had a good reputation outside of Saxony. In 1979 the traditional production of sparkling wine was discontinued in favor of the tank fermentation method practiced in the nearby Wackerbarth Castle. The sparkling wine tradition of the name "Bussard" is used today as a sparkling wine brand by the Saxon State Winery there at Schloss Wackerbarth .
The buildings in Radebeul are now a listed building and have been converted into a residential complex. The property was already a listed building during the GDR era .
description
The main building is a two-storey three-wing structure over a 115 m long, two-storey vaulted cellar, which was only successfully built the second time. It is located between the (former) Moritzburger Strasse 44 in the west and Oberen Bergstrasse 65/67 in the east on a large, south-facing plot of land. The central section of the former production building with flat hipped roofs faces south and overlooks a laid out vineyard area. In the middle on that side there is a balcony on six pillars. Above this there is a wide dormer in the roof, above which there is a baroque style , square roof turret with a double curved hood . The two wings of the complex face north and form a large inner courtyard with the central building.
On the mountain side to the east there is a residential building with a convex hipped roof, connected by a two-storey intermediate building with a flat roof.
Today the building houses a residential complex with a total of 26 two- to five-room apartments, the basements of which are in the upper vaulted cellar. The total living space is almost 2500 m².
history
Sparkling wines and a champagne factory
In 1832, 75 winegrowers who had settled on the Kötzschenbroda corridor north of Meißner Strasse, but were not considered to be their residents by the Kötzschenbroda community, founded the Niederlößnitzer Weinbergverein .
In 1836 the vineyard owners Ludwig Pilgrim (from Mohrenhaus ), Georg Schwarz (from Altfriedstein ) and Franz Carl Friedrich Sickmann (from Neufriedstein ) founded the Actienverein for the production of sparkling wines on the Kidney Mountain on the east side of Moritzburger Straße (No. 44) .
Due to the changes in the Saxon rural community order of 1838 , the municipality of Nieder-Lössnitz with 400 inhabitants at that time was formed in 1839 through the formal separation of Kötzschenbroda in the south and Kötzschenbroda Oberort in the north , on whose territory the sparkling wine cellar was thus located.
The first cellar master of this factory for sparkling wines was Johann Joseph Mouzon from Reims until 1848 , who built up the production with bottle fermentation in the Champagne style. After an initial 37,700 bottles, a maximum output of 150,000 bottles was achieved in 1846. When it was renamed the Niederlößnitz champagne factory , the sparkling wine producer gained a good reputation under this name in the decades that followed.
While the available amount of wines from the Elbe Valley was sufficient in the first decades, competition from three other champagne factories in the Lößnitz from 1860 and the phylloxera disaster after 1880 ensured that base wines from the Rhine and Moselle were increasingly used.
In 1886, the company acquired Uhlitzsch, Richter & Co. , the champagne factory Niederlößnitz , set up the early 1890s for the first time guest rooms and put the that are on the center wing baroque-roof skylights on the roof.
Bussard champagne producer
In 1897, the Sectkellerei Bussard Actien-Gesellschaft, previously located in Meißen, acquired the company. In 1899 the company H. Schönrock's successor wine wholesaler acquired the Sektkellerei Bussard , dissolved the stock corporation and continued the company as a GmbH. Modernization of the buildings, expansion of the catering capacities as well as intensive advertising of the brand "Bussard" made the sparkling wine as well as its restaurant Weinhaus and the tasting room so popular that not only gourmets but also members of the Saxon royal family were regular guests.
On the occasion of the exhibition of the Loessnitz villages in 1909, the garden house, the so-called Sektklause , was built, which fell into disrepair for a long time and was cleared in the 2010s.
After the Second World War , production was only resumed in 1955 as the Sektkellerei Bussard Voigt & Co. KG , from 1958 the VEB Rotkäppchen Sektkellerei Freyburg was involved. In 1972 it was expropriated and in 1974 it was integrated into the Radebeul Volksweingut VEG (Z) Weinbau Radebeul . In 1978/1979 the traditional bottle fermentation was stopped on site and the last remaining Bussard employees were converted into mass sparkling wine production on the grounds of Schloss Wackerbarth . The tank fermentation process practiced there for the mass production of cheap sparkling wine had priority over the classic bottle fermentation practiced in Bussard with a lot of manual labor, which delivered higher quality sparkling wine, but was more cost-intensive. This ended the tradition of producing high quality, handcrafted quality sparkling wines using the classic bottle fermentation method in the Bussard sparkling wine cellar .
Reuse
The buildings were already declared a technical monument during the GDR era, but they could not be used as a museum. Parts were used as storage, other parts as the youth clubhouse “X. World Festival "and used as a disco" Sect ". A daycare center and later a daycare center were also set up there. From 1990 to 1997 the restaurant was operated under the name "Weinstein". After vacancy, a renovation to the residential complex began in 2003, but it failed in the middle. In 2008, the building complex was redesigned into a residential complex with numerous apartments while respecting the preservation of historical monuments.
In September 2011, the Sektklause located on the north-western part of the property, built in 1909 as a champagne tasting room and also listed, was demolished due to its dilapidation.
The name Bussard today
The Saxon State Winery at Schloss Wackerbarth holds the naming rights to the Bussard brand and produces a sparkling wine of the same name.
The Kidney Mountain is now called Bussardberg and is one of the steep-slope vineyards in the Radebeuler Steinrück vineyard .
Remarkable
The politician Hermann Müller (1876–1931) was the son of the head of the Sektkellerei Bussard, who died in 1892. Müller was Chancellor of the Weimar Republic from 1928 to 1930 .
The painter and etcher Moritz Retzsch , himself also a winemaker in Oberlößnitz, created a detailed representation of sparkling wine production in Niederlößnitz in 1836. In 1840 an exhibit from the sparkling wine shop rode on a wagon of the winegrowers' train , which Retzsch also recorded.
Lößnitz sparkling wines
Even before the factory for sparkling wines , the chief forester Henning August von Bredow , at that time owner of the vineyard estate , later called Minckwitzscher Weinberg , which was also located in Radebeuler Steinrück and later called Minckwitzscher Weinberg , was successfully producing sparkling wines from loessnitz grapes from 1827 .
literature
- Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
- Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .
- Theodor Mögling : The latest in the field of agriculture and forestry, as well as their technical minor subjects; or a compact, systematically ordered excerpt from the minutes of the meetings of German farmers and foresters from 1837–1844. Carl Mäcken's Verlag, Reutlingen 1846, pp. 701-704.
Web links
- Pictures and scans of the Bussard Sektkellerei at the Deutsche Fotothek
- History of sparkling wine production on the website of the Saxon State Winery Schloss Wackerbarth
- Postcard of the broken off Sektklause.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sektkellerei Bussard
- ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 29 f . (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been located in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Radebeul. In: City regulations to maintain order and cleanliness in the city of Radebeul. Revised form, adopted on February 1, 1973. Appendix 2, pp. 34–36.
- ↑ Bussard-Bau has blossomed ( memento of the original from June 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.2 MB; accessed August 2011)
- ↑ Obere Bergstrasse 65. ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Neufriedstein
- ↑ Sektkellerei Bussard Voigt & Co. KG, Radebeul in the main state archive in Dresden ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bussard - Sektklause ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 53.5 " N , 13 ° 37 ′ 56.7" E