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Tucher Bräu GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1672
Seat Nuremberg and Fürth , Germany
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management Gunther Butz, Heinz Christ
Branch Brewing
Website www.tucher.de

The Tucher Braeu GmbH & Co. KG is a brewery with seat in Nuremberg and Fuerth . Today it belongs to the Radeberger Group in the Oetker Group .

history

Municipal wheat brewery

Since around 1643, the city ​​council , appointed by the patricians , had wheat beer brewed on its own in the Heilig-Geist-Spital . Around 1672, the “Städtische Weizenbräuhaus”, a sandstone building with three-storey volute gables , was built in the former Waizenstrasse - today Karl-Grillenberger- Strasse 3 - and brewing operations started. 1672 is also the official founding date of the brewery.

Initially, two imperial city officials ran the wheat brewery under the supervision of the deputation of the "Inner Council". The deputation, which was also responsible for the financial administration, was dissolved in 1800 and the powers of the Rentkammer and the magistrate were handed over.

Royal brewery

With the mediatization of Nuremberg by the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806, the brewery was continued as the "Royal Brewery". As wheat beer consumption fell, production was switched to brown beer and beer dispatch was accelerated.

Baron von Tucher'sche Brewery

The Kingdom of Bavaria sold the Royal Brewery to the Dr. Lorenz Tucher Foundation in 1855. The Tucher von Simmelsdorf renamed the brewery “Freiherrlich von Tucher'sche Brewery” and from then on shaped the trademark through the Mohrenkopf, which was taken from the Tucher family coat of arms.

The brewery became one of the largest export breweries beyond the borders of Nuremberg. After the switch to steam operation in 1855, a rapid upswing began, which was soon also evident in exports to areas outside of Bavaria. In 1875, around two thirds of beer sales went all over the world.

Baron von Tucher'sche Brewery AG

Share of more than 1,000 marks in the Baron von Tucher'schen Brewery AG on May 18, 1906

Around 1890 a new brewery building was built on the Tucher'schen garden property (Lange Gasse 20). 1898, the company was transferred to a public limited company under the Company Freiherrlich of Tucher'sche Brauerei AG converted. For participation in the Paris World Exhibition of 1900 the following awards are mentioned in the exhibition catalog:

In 1906, the company merged with the Nürnberger Aktienbrauerei , previously Heinrich Henninger on Bayreuther Strasse. The building of the Städtisches Weizenbräuhaus was sold to the city of Nuremberg in 1913, which used it as an administration building until it was destroyed in World War II.

Brau AG

Towels Siechen Tafel

In 1966, the "Freiherrlich von Tucher'sche Brauerei AG" merged with the "Brauhaus Nürnberg JG Reif AG" to form "Brau AG" and relocated the entire brewery to the building of the former Nuremberg brewery on Schillerplatz. The Henninger- Reemtsma group held the majority of the shares .

After the merger with the "Brauerei JG Reif, Nürnberg" (manufacturer of the famous " Siechen beer "), which had existed since 1520 , it became Tucher-Siechen .

The property and the buildings at Langen Gasse 20 were sold. A new building for the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg was built there in 1972 . Parts of the Tucherkeller were converted into a bunker during the Cold War .

In 1980 or 1982 the Brauhaus Hirschberg JB Prinstner from Beilngries was taken over by Brau AG.

Tucher Bräu AG

In 1985, the Rosenheim March group took over the majority of the shares and renamed Brau AG into "Tucher Bräu AG".

Tucher Bräu GmbH & Co. KG

Bardentreffen at Nuremberg's main market, 2008

The Munich brewing entrepreneur Hans Inselkammer acquired the majority of the shares in Tucher Bräu AG from the insolvent March Group in 1994, merged with Patrizier Bräu AG (formerly part of the Schickedanz Group ) and transformed the company into a private brewery by separating the operational beer business from the stock corporation around. In 1997, Hasen-Bräu ceded its operating rights to Tucher Bräu and has been part of the company ever since. As a result of the merger, all five traditional Fürth breweries (Humbser, Grüner, Geismann , Bergbräu and Evora & Meyer) have merged into Tucher via various detours .

Since then, the beers have been produced in the following breweries: Fürth, Schwabacher Straße (formerly the Joh.Humbser brewery, later Humbser- Geismann ) - Nuremberg, Bärenschanzstraße (Lederer brewery) - Zirndorf (Zirndorf brewery) - Nuremberg, Schillerstraße (formerly Brau AG) . Sales have been carried out from the logistics center on the Main-Danube Canal in Fürth-Süd since 1998.

Jannik Inselkammer has been managing director since 1997 , and Fred Höfler and Martin Leibhard from 2003.

In 2001, a beer pipeline was put into operation from the brewery in Schwabacher Strasse to the logistics center in Fürth's industrial park south. Since then, the beer has flowed directly from the brewery to the bottling plant in the logistics center.

Tucher Bräu at Oetker

The new "2-city brewhouse" is located exactly on the city limits of Fürth / Nuremberg
The former brewhouse (right) and the malt floors have been preserved and are now home to various businesses

With retroactive effect to January 1, 2003, Jannik Inselkammer sold the Tucher Bräu to the beverage company " Brau und Brunnen ", contrary to other announcements . The Brau - & - Brunnen group and with it the Tucher Bräu was taken over in 2004 by the " Oetker Group ", while the real estate of the Tucher Bräu remained in the possession of the Inselkammer family.

In June 2007, the foundation stone for the construction of the new brewhouse was laid on the site of the logistics center, which began operations in 2008. The city border between Nuremberg and Fürth runs through the brewhouse, the lauter tun and whirlpool are in Fürth, the mash tun and wort kettle in Nuremberg. In addition, new fermentation and filtration systems, storage areas as well as laboratory and administration buildings were built. The former beer pipeline is now used to transport brewing water from the well of the historic brewery to the new brewhouse. The brewery bought the site back from the former brewery owner Jannik Inselkammer. In September 2011 the production of green beer (discontinued in 1977) was resumed.

After completion of the new facility, the 120-year-old brewery (originally the Humbser brewery) at Schwabacher Straße 106 in Fürth was shut down, apartments are being built on the former brewery site, and the development is largely complete (as of April 2019). A few operating buildings such as the listed brewhouse and the porter's house, which was built in 1911, have been preserved.

After extensive renovation measures and the installation of new, significantly smaller brewing kettles, the brewhouse built in 1899 on Nuremberg's Schillerplatz was officially reopened on April 23, 2018, where currently (2019) only red beer is brewed.

Tucher Bräu beer brands (extract)

Brewery fusions - The development of Tucher Bräu up to 1994
  • Falkenfelser
  • Greener
  • Humbles
  • Hürner
  • Scheyern Monastery
  • Lederer
  • Slogan
  • Patrician
  • Sebaldus Wheat
  • Sick
  • Cloths
  • Zirndorfer

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Tucher Bräu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (ed.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg , W. Tümmels Verlag , 2nd edition, Nürnberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 1170.
  2. ↑ The Moor from the Tucherwappen is probably a representation of St. Mauritius (cf. website of the Tucher'schen Kulturstiftung ( memento of the original from August 8, 2014 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 note. ) a. was venerated as the patron saint of cloth makers @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tucher-kulturstiftung.de
  3. ^ Baron von Tucher'sche Brewery Nuremberg. In: Official Catalog of the Collective Exhibition of the German Industry in Articles of Food at the Paris International Exhibition 1900. New York Public Library, Paris 1900 (English).
  4. ↑ a b Johannes Alles: Rebirth of a Fürth beer. In: Fürther Nachrichten of September 21, 2011, accessed on September 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Volker Dittmar: Sale of the Fürth brewery tradition. In: Fürther Nachrichten of April 6, 2009, accessed on September 17, 2019.
  6. ↑ Volker Dittmar: Fürth's new beer source. In: Fürther Nachrichten of September 18, 2008, accessed on September 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ A brewery for two cities. Tucher Bräu opens new brewhouse on the border between Nuremberg and Fürth. In: Fürther Nachrichten of September 25, 2008, accessed on September 17, 2019.
  8. ↑ Altes Sudhaus Auf: Tucher Internet portal .