Sternburg brewery

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The Sternburg brewery is a former brewery in the Leipzig district of Lützschena , which existed between 1822 and 1991. The brewery is the namesake for the Sternburg beer brand , the majority of the listed buildings on the street Zur alten Brauerei are still largely preserved.

Maximilian Speck von Sternburg
Sternburg Lützschena-Leipzig brewery, around 1877
Sternburg Lützschena-Leipzig brewery (bottom right view of the Schkeuditz branch ), around 1907

history

1822-1945

In 1822 the Leipzig merchant and wool merchants acquired Maximilian Speck the manor in Lützschena to where an agricultural model farm with livestock to build. At this point in time there was already a brewery on the site, which had been producing beer since the middle of the 18th century at the latest and in 1795 received approval to serve and sell beer. In 1823, as the new owner of the brewery, Speck received permission to sell simple and full beers in the Burgkeller bar in Leipzig, which had been in existence since 1492 (today Naschmarkt 1–3). In 1829 Speck, now Baron Speck von Sternburg, stayed in Bavaria at the invitation of King Ludwig I , where he leased the St. Veit Monastery, among other things . From Sankt Veit he brought the master brewer who had been working there to Lützschena, who converted the manor brewery into a Bavarian brewery where bottom-fermented lager beers were made. From then on, the beer was increasingly successfully sold and marketed under the name Sternburg . For reasons of capacity, a new and larger brewery was built outside the castle grounds from 1834 to 1836, which from then on was mostly known under the name Freiherrliche Speck von Sternburg'sche Bairische Bierbrauerei . In the same year, Speck von Sternburg began growing hops for its own beer production. In 1846/47, the site had to be expanded for the first time due to increased sales, and three new storage cellars were built.

After the death of his father in 1856, Alexander Maximilian, the youngest son of Speck von Sternburg, inherited the Lützschenaer estates and with it the brewery. In 1864 the beer was sold and served next to the Leipzig Burgkeller via two own localities, the Gasthof zu Lützschena and the Lützschenaer Keller in Specks Hof , further restorations in the trade fair city were acquired by 1880. Between 1876 and 1930, the brewery was comprehensively expanded and continuously modernized in several steps, which mainly affected technical facilities such as the brewhouse , malt house , steam boiler and steam engine systems as well as fermentation and storage cellars. Bottled beer shipping was introduced in 1892, and in 1911 the sidings to the Wahren freight station were put into operation. Alexander Maximilian Speck von Sternburg managed the brewery until his death in 1911, his son James Alexander (1856–1916) converted the brewery into the Brauerei Sternburg GmbH Leipzig-Lützschena in 1913 . At that time, the company was the largest source of income for the Speck von Sternburg family and was one of the largest breweries in Central Germany .

In 1913 the brewery bought the Leipziger Burgkeller , between 1915 and 1924 beer production was restricted due to the war. In 1940 the long-time operations manager of the brewery, Oswald Winde, published a large-format commemorative publication with over 650 pages on the occasion of his 50th anniversary . The Leipzig writer Paul Daehne was commissioned to write the text of the private printing , which was partially excessive in terms of content and homage to National Socialism. Between 1900 and 1940 he wrote several commemorative publications for Leipzig companies. During the last years of the Second World War , slave labor was employed in the brewery .

1945 until today

After the end of the Second World War, the Speck von Sternburg family gave up their goods in Lützschena, and from 1946 the Soviet military administration managed the brewery. In 1947 the company was nationalized and assigned to the VVB breweries based in Dresden , from 1968 the brewery was part of the VEB Beverage Combine Leipzig . The Sternburg brewery, which was extremely successful in the GDR, for example, produced around 500,000 hectoliters of beer in 1989 with around 500 employees. After the political change in 1990, the Sternburg Brauerei GmbH was founded in cooperation with the Stuttgarter Hofbräu . Due to the loss of export opportunities, the production volume fell sharply. Brewing production was stopped on May 15, 1991, and the plant was finally closed on August 31 of the same year. The Reudnitzer Brewery has been running the Sternburg brand since 1992 .

The partially listed site of the brewery has been fallow since 1991, and in May 2018 a proposal was made to convert the site into a residential complex. On May 13, 2018, a major fire broke out in the former brewery in five different places.

Pictures of the brewery (around 1907)

  • Cooling equipment in the brewery, around 1907

  • Transport barrels for the beer, around 1907

  • Vehicles in the brewery's fleet, around 1907

  • Brewery fermentation cellar, around 1907

  • Courtyard of the Sternburg brewery, around 1907

  • Pichhalle of the Sternburg brewery, around 1907

  • Above-ground bottling hall of the Sternburg brewery, around 1907

  • Transport of bottled beer by the Sternburg brewery, around 1907

literature

  • Speck-Sternburg, Maximilian: Agricultural description of the manor Lützschena near Leipzig, with its branches of industry . Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1842, pp. 150–161. ( Digitized version )
  • Speck von Sternburg, Alexander: Description and valuation of the Bavarian beer brewery in Lützschena near Leipzig . Leipzig 1864.
  • Sternburg Lützschena brewery. The story of a German brewery. [Reprint of the "Sternburg number" of the magazine "Deutsche Industrie, Deutsche Kultur" vol. 5 (1907), no. 10] . Eckstein Biographischer Verlag, Berlin 1909.
  • Paul Daehne: Lützschena through the ages . A book of honor by the Sternburg brewery for friends of beer and captivating events . Weber, Leipzig 1940.
  • Pawlitzky, Horst: Lützschena and his beer. The history of the Sternburg brewery in Lützschena , 2005. [last accessed on May 27, 2018]
  • Pawlitzky, Horst: How long has Sternburg beer been around? . In: Auen-Kurier. Local newspaper for Lützschena-Stahmeln (2013), No. 2, p. 1. ( digitized version ).
  • Wolf-Dietrich Speck von Sternburg: The origin of the "Sternburg beer" . In: Ders .: History of the Knights v. Bacon Barons v. Sternburg . Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2015, pp. 129–150.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Daehne: Lützschena in the changing world. A book of honor by the Sternburg brewery for friends of beer and captivating events . Weber, Leipzig 1940, p. 526 .
  2. ↑ Wolf-Dietrich Speck von Sternburg: Origin of the "Sternburg Beer" . In: Ders .: History of the Knights v. Bacon Barons v. Sternburg . Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2015, pp. 134–135.
  3. ↑ Steffen Held, Thomas Fickenwirth: External and forced labor in the Leipzig area 1939-1945. Special archival inventory and historical insights (=  Leipzig calendar. Special volume . Volume 2001/2 ). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-935693-25-7 , p. 226 .
  4. ↑ Alte Sternburg brewery is to become a residential area. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. May 10, 2018, accessed May 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Former brewery becomes housing estate . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung (2018), No. 108 of May 11, 2018, p. 15.
  6. ↑ Fire in the old Sternburg brewery . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung (2018), No. 110 of May 14, 2018, p. 13.

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 3.4 "  N , 12 ° 16 ′ 56.6"  E