Union Brewery (Bremen)
The Union brewery is a brewery founded in 1907 by Bremen restaurateurs , which was taken over by Haake-Beck AG in 1965 and closed in 1968. In December 2015, operations , which had been expanded to include a gastronomic offer, were resumed. The new operators are the architect Lüder Kastens and the former managing director of the Bremen brewery Beck & Co. Markus Zeller.
Since 2014, the main building (brewhouse, machine and boiler house and cellar) as a single monument and the ensemble enclosing the remise are under monument protection .
history
Bremen restaurateurs founded a brewery in the Osterfeuerbergviertel in Bremen-Walle in 1907 , which they named "Union". They received their operating license on June 13, 1907. By March 1908, they had a brewhouse with an apartment for the master brewer, a machine and boiler house, and a cellar building with an upstream bottle filling building on a corner plot of what is now Holsteiner Strasse and Theodorstrasse ), as well as a carriage and stable building. The brewery was operated as a GmbH until 1923 and as a stock corporation from September 20, 1923 .
The economic development was positive. During the Second World War , after an air raid on August 18, 1944, the 16th police station was temporarily housed in the administration building of the brewery before it and the Picherei were destroyed by an explosive bomb on February 24, 1945. They managed to build an office barrack out of old wood. Operations were resumed as early as 1945, initially under US military administration, and the company quickly returned to its old successes. The brewery was in operation around the clock, its coachmen supplied restaurants in the area with fresh beer and often only returned at night.
In 1964 Union-Brauerei AG was converted back into a GmbH before being transferred to Haake-Beck AG a year later . A freight elevator was installed in the tower building in 1967/1968, but the brewery closed in 1968. In addition to a forwarding agency, several small businesses have settled on the premises, the buildings of which have been preserved.
Lüder Kastens and Markus Zeller announced in 2014 that they wanted to revive the Union brand on the premises of the old brewery . In addition to old and new types of craft beer , gastronomy, brewery tours and tours, beer seminars, “brewing for women”, etc. are also offered. There is also a coffee roastery . The gutting and renovation of the old buildings began in summer 2014; The opening took place on December 19, 2015. The architectural office Kastens + Siemann was recognized for the renovation and revitalization of the monument ensemble within the framework of the Bremen Monument Preservation Prize 2016.
Monument protection
“In the city of Bremen, the Union brewery is a rare and successful example of representative industrial architecture for the period before World War I. The production of beer at the beginning of the 20th century can be seen on the building complex of the Union brewery. It is an example of a small brewery from the early 20th century that is important for the history of brewing in Northern Germany, but rarely well preserved in terms of its buildings, evidence of the local industrial history and, together with the neighboring school buildings, the center of the Osterfeuerberg district. "
See also
Web links
- Official website of the UNION brewery Bremen
- Video contribution to Radio Bremen
Individual evidence
- ↑ WESER-Kurier: The beer comes by coach
- ↑ a b c d Monument database of the LfD
- ↑ a b c Information from the Otsamt West , accessed on December 10, 2014
- ↑ The "Union" is reanimated; Weser Kurier, June 15, 2014
- ↑ 40 years of the Bremen police station - a history of the police station, Bremen police station 1996
- ^ The girl from the Union Brewery by Anke Velten, in: Weser Kurier , August 31, 2014
- ↑ a b website of the operator
- ↑ Awarding of the Bremen Monument Preservation Prize 2016. denkmalpflege.bremen.de, accessed on November 26, 2016 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 4 ″ N , 8 ° 47 ′ 35 ″ E