Storm brewery
The Sturmbrauerei was a brewery at Frankenstrasse 82 in the district town of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
It is known through tradition that the brewery was founded in 1767, but it is only documented that it was founded in 1852.
Arnold Sturm sold his pub "Zur Eule" in Dürener Kämergasse in 1858 . In October 1852 he bought the building on Weierstrasse 1–3 , the Ratskeller. There he ran a restaurant and brewed beer in the back building. Wilhelm Sturm and his wife Anna Cäcilia Herriger took over the business from their father Arnold Sturm. Until December 31, 2001 there was a restaurant in the former Ratskeller.
After the Franco-German War
In January 1875 Wilhelm built a steam beer brewery on the Grüneberg in the southeast of the city. To the west, the site bordered the Prym siblings' brickworks. The "Grüneberg", actually a terrace of the Rur , later also became a brand name for various drinks. The first drink brewed on the premises between Eberhard-Hoesch-Straße and Frankenstraße (formerly part of Bonner Straße) was the “Grünberger Pils ”.
In 1885 the first ice and cooling machine of this type was built for the brewery in Düren. Before that, ice had to be fetched from the surrounding ponds in winter, brought to the brewery in horse-drawn vehicles and stored there in ice cellars . Since the beer could not be stored at an outside temperature of more than +10 ° C, the electrically operated ice and cooling machine was an enormous technical advance.
Wilhelm Sturm died in 1897. The 21-year-old son Carl took over the brewery business. In 1903 Wilhelm's widow divided the shares of the brewery among her eight children. A major blow for the company was a major fire on October 10, 1911, which destroyed large parts of the factory. After the reconstruction, the brewery was expanded to include a distillery around 1920 . The company was transformed into the Sturm Brewery and Distillery GmbH , malt factory, liqueur factory and winery. In addition to grain brandy , brandy and liqueurs were also produced. Additional premises were required to produce this wide variety of beverages. A malt house , a distillery, a distillery and a winery were built .
In addition to the aforementioned drinks, clear fresh spirit lemonade , naturally cloudy fresh spirit lemonade and Grünberger table water were produced. The farmers in the area collected the spent grains from the brewery and the stillage from the distillery, both waste products, as high-quality cattle feed.
As the former manager said in her native Cologne language, “everything was produced, wat mer suffe konnt” (everything that you could drink) was produced.
At the beginning of the Second World War , an air raid shelter was set up in the basement of the main building for the population of Düren-Süd . At the time, the Sturm brewery employed 32 people. During the air raid on Düren on November 16, 1944, the brewery was completely destroyed and the distillery partially destroyed. Due to the destruction, Carl Sturm moved to his youngest brother Josef Sturm in Cologne-Gremberghoven .
The Fritz and Wilhelm Sturm families died in the air raid. Carl Werner Sturm, who had been brought to Düren by his uncle, buried the dead in the family grave in the old Catholic cemetery between Kölnstrasse and Bergstrasse. The tomb was designed in 1890 by the Cologne cathedral builder Vincenz Statz .
After the Second World War
Immediately after the end of the Second World War (May 8, 1945), five former employees began clearing and rebuilding. During the reconstruction, the entire brewing system was stolen in one night, because it was made of copper and certainly brought in a good scrap price. The senior boss decided not to put the brewery back into operation.
In 1947/48 the black wooden house was built on the company premises on Eberhard-Hoesch-Straße, which still exists today. In 1948 Carl Sturm moved into one half of the house. After the war he found an apartment at Paradiesstrasse 6b. In 1949 the Sturm-Brauerei und Brennerei GmbH started selling spirits again on a smaller scale. In 1949/1950 Carl Sturm built two company apartments on the company premises. His nephew Carl Werner Sturm, who married Dorit Liesegang from Cologne in 1950, moved into one. A distiller from the company moved into the other apartment .
Carl Sturm died on May 9, 1952. His nephew Carl Werner Sturm continued the business. He continued to expand the company. In 1953 he started again with the production of lemonade and table water. Several buildings were added to the property in Düren. Since they no longer brewed their own beer, the beer from the Rhenania brewery from Krefeld and Felsquell beer from Monschau were sold .
On May 20, 1983 the last grain brandy was distilled . This stopped the Sturm distillery from operating. Carl Werner Sturm died on July 26, 1996. The business of the GmbH, such as B. the administration of the property, led his wife Dorit Sturm until March 31, 2005.
The brewery premises with all buildings were razed at the beginning of the 21st century . The Sturm brewery and distillery ceased to exist on February 1, 2001. Only a flour mill was preserved. Today it stands in the park of the Sturm family's private house. Some memorabilia are also kept there. Modern residential buildings have been built on the former premises. The Sturmsberg access road has been named in memory of the Sturmbrauerei . The rising section of Frankenstraße is still popularly called Sturmsberg today.
The beer from the Sturm company was sold, among other things, in a 0.33 l green glass relief bottle, which had a screw cap that is no longer in production. After the brewery closed, lemonades and table water were also filled in these bottles.
The demolition of the brewery began in January 2000.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dürener Nachrichten of December 19, 2001
swell
- Company archive of the Sturmbrauerei, viewed on April 23, 2012
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 45.9 " N , 6 ° 29 ′ 45.6" E