Warburger brewery

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Warburger Brewery GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1721
Seat Warburg , Germany
management Michael Kohlschein and Franz-Axel Kohlschein
sales 2 million euros
Branch brewery
Website www.warburger-brauerei.de

The Warburger Brewery is a medium-sized brewery in Warburg . It has been owned by the Kohlschein family since it was founded in 1721.

history

The “Warburger Bierprobe”, graphic from around 1920
The former brewery tavern Hauptstr. 60 before the construction of the new administration building (approx. 1890)
Main street 58 and 60 from the west (after 1920)
Hauptstrasse 60 after the brewery moved out (2016)

The brewing tradition of Warburg can be traced back to the Middle Ages . Initially, brewing took place in almost all larger households. 1436 was in the Warburger Bill of Rights, the Groten Breff , stipulates that for six bushels (about 1 hl) of beer two shillings and six penny in Neustadt and two shillings in the old town for 6 Malter, the New Town Church of St. John Baptist are to be submitted. With the establishment of a brewers' guild before 1540, the establishment of a craft that required a license was established . The quality of the beer was also checked by the city council's so-called "tasters". This so-called “Warburg beer tasting” is still re-enacted as a popular theater piece on the old town market. In 1581 Warburg was praised, among other things, in Georg Braun's engravings , especially for "the delicious beer sake".

1695 John Jodokus Kohlschein came after a temporary stay after Foreign Warburg back, settled in the old town and founded a brewery, for which he at the 31 January 1721 brewing right was given to the city. In 1794, his successor, Anton Joseph Kohlschein, moved the company to Unterstraße, at the corner of Pottgasse in Warburger Neustadt.

In 1831/32 Franz Xaver Kohlschein took over from Friedrich Koch, who had got into financial difficulties, the shell of a two-story building on the nearby market square, today Hauptstrasse 60, completed it by 1840 and gradually relocated the brewery there. There was also a pub as a brewery bar. The company was steadily expanded, with some neighboring properties being acquired.

In 1892 his son Carl August Kohlschein began industrial production by installing a new boiler and a steam engine . The beer output was 4,000 hl. At the same time, he had a three-storey new building with high fire walls built in the neo-renaissance style next to the simple, eaves-standing house in Hauptstrasse 58 , in which the offices and apartments were housed.

In 1913, his son Franz Johann Kohlschein expanded Hauptstrasse 60 with a roof extension with the construction of a dwelling . Inside, some of the guest rooms were painted with scenes from the history of Warburg by the Düsseldorf painter Hans Kohlschein , an extensive relative.

In 1958, his son Franz Kohlschein had the half-timbering exposed on the originally plastered building. A little later, the building at Hauptstrasse 58, which was felt to be too high and improperly designed, was reduced to two floors.

In 1973 the brothers Heinrich and Peter Kohlschein acquired the Kuhlemühle , a former paper mill located three kilometers east of Warburg with company buildings, residential buildings and their own electricity and water supply. In 1983 the brewery was relocated there. The former buildings in the city center have been converted for residential and commercial use.

Products

A selection of Warburger beers

The brewery's output is around 20,000 hectoliters of beer per year, and sales are around 2 million euros. The focus of the company's product range is the Warburger Pils . Other brands are:

  • Warburg export
  • Warburger Urtyp - a dark, bottom-fermented beer
  • Warburger Bio Helles - a bottom-fermented beer made from organic barley
  • Warburger country beer
  • Warburger Roter Bock - a bock beer with 16.8% original wort and 6.8% alcohol by volume
  • Warburg country cyclist
  • Warburg Diemelbrand

Master line of owners / managers

The Kohlschein family sees itself as " the oldest brewer family in Westphalia " and has published the following family tree on the MyHeritage family tree platform .

  • Hans I. Kaul (* approx. 1400)
  • Heinrich Kaul (* approx. 1444) oo N bulls
  • Cord I. Kaul (* before 1477) oo N Geiling
  • Cord II. Kaul (* before 1471, † after 1510) oo Mette Weddewald from Volkmarsen
  • Heinrich Kaul (* before 1524, † 1566) oo Anna von Steinheim
  • Curd II. Kaul (1528–1576), oo 1550 Edeling von Germeten
  • Goddert Kaul (1550–1599) oo N Reussen
  • Martin Kaul (* 1581 Volkmarsen, † 1663 Warburg) 00 Anna N
  • Jodocus Kaul (* 1620 Warburg-Altstadt, † after 1668) oo Anna Reussen
  • Johann Jodocus Kaulschien / Kohlschein (* before 1668, † 1741) oo 1708 Anna Catharina Niggemann, 1721 founder of a brewery in Warburg
  • Johann Friedrich Kohlschein (1715–1742) oo 1740 Anna Margarethe Runten, 1741 owner
  • Andreas Joseph Kohlschein (1741–1788) oo 1766 with Maria Sophie Amalia Sarrazin, 1742 heir, later owner
  • Anton Joseph Kohlschein (1772–1839) oo 1794 Anna Maria Catharina Magdalena Eikerenkötter, 1794 owner
  • Dominikus Franz Xaver Kohlschein (1804–1852) oo 1861 Elisabeth Gerhold, owner in 1831
  • Carl August Kohlschein (1836–1897) oo 1861 Elisabeth Claes, owner in 1852
  • Franz Johann Kohlschein (1862–1936) 1897 oo Toni Quick, owner in 1897
  • Franz Kohlschein (1901–1978) oo 1933 Maria Rosa Both, owner
  • Heinrich and Peter Kohlschein, owners and managing directors in 1977
  • Michael and Franz Axel Kohlschein, owners and managing directors since 2008

Sponsorship

The Warburger Brewery supports several music and folk festivals in Warburg and the surrounding area every year. These include:

  • The Warburg October Week (since 1948 in October)
  • The Kälkenfest of the Warburger Verkehrsverein on the Old Town Market (since 1975 in August)
  • The May Festival of the Warburg advertising association on the Neustädter Markt
  • The brewery rock festival , a summer open-air event in the Kuhlemühle (since 2008 in August)

miscellaneous

The brewery is a member of the Brauring , a cooperation between private breweries from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

literature

  • Peter Kohlschein: Festschrift of the Kohlschein brewery. Warburg 1983.
  • Ludwig Blömeke: The economic development of the Warburg and its surrounding area. In: The City of Warburg, Contributions to the History of a City , ed. by Franz Mürmann, Warburg 1986, Volume 2, pp. 365-395.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Mürmann: The "Grote Breff", certificate for the unification of the two cities of Warburg with high German translation in: Die Stadt Warburg, contributions to the history of a city, Warburg 1986, Volume 1, pp. 13-19.
  2. ↑ Georg Braun, Franz Hogenberg et al: Vrbivm Praecipvarivm Totivs Mvndi. Kempen 1581.
  3. ↑ Stadtarchiv Warburg, cameral register for 1721.
  4. ↑ Gotthardt Kießling et al.: Monuments in Westphalia, Vol. 1.1. City of Warburg. Michael Imhoff Verlag, Petersberg 2015, p. 232.
  5. ↑ warburger-brauerei.de site
  6. ↑ Peter Kohlschein: Warburg's brewing has a rich tradition , in: 950 years of the city of Warburg, Festschrift for the 950th anniversary of the city of Warburg, ed. from the city of Warburg, Hermann-Hermes Verlag, Warburg 1936
  7. ↑ myheritage.de
  8. ↑ Member breweries . Brewing ring, accessed February 20, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 8.7 ″  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 35.7 ″  E