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State Fachingen Classic and Medium

State Fachingen is a medicinal and mineral water from Fachingen Heil- und Mineralbrunnen GmbH based in Fachingen in Rhineland-Palatinate . From 1990 to mid-2011 the GmbH was part of the Mineralbrunnen Überkingen-Teinach AG group. It has been owned by Duisburg-based Sinalco GmbH since June 2011 .

State Fachingen is sold throughout Germany and, according to its own information, has a level of awareness in Germany of 80 percent.

Products

The company is by the brand Staatl. Fachingen Still (formerly Staatl. Fachingen Classic ) claims to be the market leader in the field of medicinal water and sells with Staatl. Fachingen Medium a mineral water. The water rises about 400 meters underground in the Lahn valley from a tectonic fault on the western edge of the Limburg basin . The mineral water has a content of more than 1,800 mg / l hydrogen carbonate .

In 2007 the range was briefly expanded with the two near-water products Staatl. Fachingen Minalance Strawberry-Aloe Vera and Staatl. Fachingen Minalance Orange-Ginger expanded.

history

After the Fachinger spring was discovered near Diez an der Lahn in 1740 , water was dispatched in specially made jugs in 1746. In order to boost this, the first advertisements were published the following year.

1791 took over the Diezer Kaufmann August Theodor Pilgrim under the company Fachinger wells. Admodiation to Dietz the well operation. He had a new magazine built and used jugs bearing the Nassau lion and the inscription Orange-Nassau . Fachingen P. wore.

In 1811 the lease from Pilgrim expired and the Fachingen wells were placed under state administration with those from Niederselters and operated by the ducal-Nassau wells office.

After over 400,000 jugs were sold per year in 1834 and 1835, drastic losses had to be recorded in the following years, which reached their lowest point in 1848. Around 1855, 500,000 jugs worth 24,000 guilders were exported annually, which corresponded to a third of the export of the competing water Selters at the time . Thick-walled, weakly glazed, Westerwald earthenware jugs remained the preferred vessels for shipping until the end of the 19th century. After that of the Duchy of Nassau was sealed with the end of the German War in July 1866 , the Nassau fountains became the property of the Kingdom of Prussia .

In 1870 the glass bottle was introduced and offered together with the previous clay jugs. After the Fachinger Brunnen was leased to the inventor and manufacturer Friedrich Siemens in 1894, bottling exceeded the one million liter mark for the first time in 1895. Royal Siemens operated as Mineralbrunnen Siemens & Co.

From 1901/1902, the bottle cork bore the fire label "Table and health water". With the emergence of the Free State of Prussia in 1918, the product was Royal Fachingen to State Fachingen renamed. After Friedrich Siemens died in 1904, his heirs continued the lease and acted as Staatlich Mineralbrunnen Siemens Erben oHG .

In 1913, before the First World War , 6,329,480 liters of Fachinger were sold, due to trade barriers caused by the war and falling incomes, it was only two million liters by 1918/1919. However, the record mark of ten million bottles was reached as early as 1929.

When the lease for the heirs of Friedrich Siemens was extended in 1943, the source in Niederselters went to Sudetenquell GmbH, which was owned by the SS administrative and economic main office . Even if the Fachingen company did not suffer any damage to buildings or systems during World War II , many machines and devices were still defective by the end of the war in 1945. After the Second World War, the well was transferred to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, but the lease contract continued. The heirs managed to transfer the Niederselters well, which also had a large empties warehouse. Because of the flood of the century in 1946, the well had to be shut down for three months.

Plastic crates have been used as a means of transport for the bottles since 1971, and since 1989 the bottles have been closed with screw caps instead of crown corks . In 1974, seven further deposits of the Fachingen type were developed.

In 1990 Mineralbrunnen Überkingen-Teinach AG acquired the Fachinger Brunnen from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, but the lease agreement with Siemens Erben OHG was not dissolved until 1995. All uses and rights were thereby transferred to Mineralbrunnen Überkingen-Teinach AG.

In 2003 a new bottling plant was built and inaugurated. Since September 2003 Staatl. Fachingen is bottled in a facetted bottle that has been available for the catering trade since 1993.

In March 2004, Staatl. Fachingen Gourmet Medium introduced exclusively for the catering sector.

In June 2011, Sinalco GmbH acquired the Fachinger Brunnen after Mineralbrunnen Überkingen-Teinach AG had already sold the spring in Bad Überkingen to an investor at the end of 2010 as a result of massive losses.

Trivia

A bottle of “Staatl. Fachingen "occasionally served as a prop in film and television productions, for example in:

literature

  • Königlich Fachingen in: Historisch Biographische Blätter. Wiesbaden administrative district , vol. 2, Berlin 1913.
  • Ulrich Eisenbach: The medicinal water Fachingen. History of a special natural occurrence , Mainz 1994.

Web links

Commons : State. Fachingen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dörte Fleischhauer: Sinalco: Takes over state. Fachingen . In: Lebensmittelpraxis , June 17, 2011; Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  2. ↑ Company updates. fachingen.de; accessed on February 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ Trademark register , last accessed on April 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ instead Fachingen STILL analysis . fachingen.de; Retrieved May 19, 2012.
  5. ↑ Kaiserliches Reichs-Post-Amt: Der Anzeiger , February 2, 1791, full text in the Google book search.
  6. ^ Newspaper of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , March 3, 1811, full text in the Google book search.
  7. ↑ a b St .: From the "Krugbäckerlande" . In: The Gazebo . Issue 11, 1855, pp. 148 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  8. ↑ a b c d Mineralbrunnen Fachingen . Hessian Economic Archive; Retrieved May 20, 2012.
  9. ↑ Julius Jauernig: The development and organization of the German mineral water industry , Soika, 1931, p. 9, preview in the Google book search.
  10. ↑ Takeover: Sinalco buys mineral water brand . handelsblatt.com, June 17, 2011; Retrieved May 19, 2012.

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 38.9 ″  N , 7 ° 59 ′ 27 ″  E