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Teusser Mineralbrunnen Karl Rössle GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
Seat Löwenstein , Germany
management Rainer Rössle, Matthias R. Kircher
Number of employees 56
Branch Beverage manufacturing
Website www.teusser.de
As of December 31, 2017

Teusser Mineralbrunnen is a bottler of mineral water based in Teusserbad near Löwenstein in the Heilbronn district in Baden-Württemberg . The history of the company is closely linked to the former spa operation at the source in Teusserbad. The bottling of mineral water in Teusserbad began in the 1890s. The company currently fills around 100 million bottles of beverages each year.

history

A spa at the source in Teusserbad developed after 1504 and was first documented in 1525. The healing effect of drinking or bathing cures with the water of the spring has been attested in numerous writings since that time. The oldest evidence is to be found in Johann Gvintherius 1565. Tabernaemontanus also mentioned the bath in his New Water Treasure from 1593. A detailed description of the bath and a first attempt at a water analysis comes from the Heilbronn doctor Dietrich Christoph Scharff and appeared in 1733. The spa, which by In the course of its early history it was run by tenants of the Counts of Löwenstein, and it was praised in numerous publications in the 19th century, but due to its small size, it was soon no longer able to compete with up-and-coming health resorts such as Baden-Baden or Wildbad . The princes of Löwenstein therefore sold the spring, the bathing facilities and the Lautereck moated castle, which was temporarily part of the spa, to private individuals.

After a few brief owners, the source and the bathing facilities came into the possession of A. Deyringer from Stuttgart in 1892, who started shipping Teusser-Sprudel in the 1890s. Shortly before 1900 he sold 74,000 half-liter bottles within two months, to Stuttgart he delivered 200,000 bottles a year and to more distant cities like Strasbourg or Neustadt an der Weinstrasse at least 20,000 bottles a year. The water was awarded gold medals at international exhibitions in Brussels , Paris , Antwerp and London in 1906 and 1908, and a Grand Prix in Paris . Water from Teusserbad soon competed with established manufacturers such as Apollinaris , Staatl. Fachingen , Gerolsteiner Brunnen and Selters .

In 1908 the company was converted into a stock corporation with a share capital of 500,000 marks, of which Deyinger owned 40% of the shares. The AG had plans to increase sales to over 1 million liters within a year and to build a four-kilometer cable car to transport the soda bottles to the train station in Willsbach , from where the shipment by train started. Despite an advertising campaign at all Wuerttemberg train stations for which the logo - a man drinking at a spring - which is still used today - was invented, the hoped-for great success did not materialize, so the company returned to more realistic sales planning. At that time, the spa hotel, which dates back to the historical bathing operation in Teusserbad, was connected to the bottling plant, which was well attended in the years before the First World War and was also well connected to long-distance transport via the Kraftpost bus .

The AG did not survive the crisis years after the First World War . In 1921, the Öhringen inn owner Karl Kühnle acquired the spring, the bathing building and the bottling plants. Kühnle survived the high inflation mainly by running the well-established hotel restaurant, while the mineral water could hardly be sold. After the end of the inflation, when demand increased again, he expanded the bottling plant considerably. The hotel changed from a spa hotel to a holiday hotel. After Karl Kühnle's early accidental death on the way to Cannstatt in 1928, his widow Emma Kühnle continued the business with the help of a manager. The hotel was leased from 1933. During the Second World War , vehicles and workers in the filling plants were claimed by the Wehrmacht , and most of the soda produced went to the Wehrmacht. The hotel business ended and only the restaurant was continued.

After the war ended in 1945, many families from the destroyed Löwenstein found temporary homes in Teusserbad. The restaurant in Teusserbad was taken over by the bombed out innkeeper Paula Wengerts from Heilbronn, who ran it until she retired in 1984, after which the restaurant was closed.

In 1949 Emma Kühnle's brother-in-law Kurt Rößle, who had left his hometown Dessau for political reasons, joined the company. With his experience in large-scale industry, he modernized the factory in Teusserbad. In the absence of a vehicle fleet that could not be quickly retrieved, sales were initially carried out via a collection system in which various Löwenstein hauliers were also involved. In 1964 Emma Kühnle handed over the management to her nephew Karl Rössle. In 1967 six million bottles were sold. Rössle enlarged the factory premises by acquiring land, modernized the bottling plants, acquired a modern vehicle fleet and increased sales to 35 million bottles by 1986. In order to cover the water demand, new sources were developed by drilling up to 180 meters deep.

Around 100 million bottles of beverages are currently filled in Teusserbad every year. The products have already been awarded numerous DLG Golden Awards .

Product range

Teusser Mineralbrunnen fills mineral water, lemonades, soft drinks and fruit juice drinks.

The mineral water is offered in the four types sparkling , medium , still and natural in PET bottles of 0.5 l or 1.0 l and in glass bottles of 0.5 l or 0.7 l; there is also the mineral water gourmet product line for gastronomy in the types Classic and Still in glass bottles of 0.25, 0.5 or 0.75 l.

The lemonades, soft drinks and fruit juice drinks offered are apple juice spritzer, the isotonic soft drink ISO-Sport , an ACE drink, orange, lemon and cola mix lemonade, various low-calorie lemonades and two fruit juice drinks.

literature

  • Lothar Dudeck and Edmund Schrein: The Teusserbad - "This wonderful, strong and water-rich source ..." , in: Karl-Heinz Dähn (Red.): 700 Years of the City of Löwenstein 1287–1987 , Löwenstein 1987, pp. 389–412.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Dr. Johann Gvintherius: Commentarius de balneis et quais medicatis , Strasbourg 1565, p. 95.
  3. ↑ Dietrich Christoph Scharff: New description of the old and long ago famous Gesundbrunnen , which abundantly flowed out near and under the high-counts residence , Heilbronn 1733, p. 37ff.
  4. ↑ Including by JFM Heyfelder: The healing springs and whey spa facilities of the Kingdom of Württemberg , Stuttgart 1840, p. 35, and in early editions of Baedeker's travel guide.
  5. ↑ http://www.teusser.de/index.php?id=46

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Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 38.5 "  N , 9 ° 22 ′ 31.7"  E