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Weldebräu GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1752
Seat Plankstadt , Germany
management Hans Spielmann, Max Spielmann
Number of employees 49
sales EUR 12.22 million
Branch brewery
Website www.welde.de
As of January 31, 2019

"Weldelust" bottles

Weldebräu is a private brewery in the Palatinate community of Plankstadt in Germany with an annual output of around 100,000  hectoliters .

history

In 1752, Elector Carl Theodor granted master brewer Heinrich Joos the license to brew. Joos built a residential and brewery house with a small in-house brewery on Mannheimer Strasse in Schwetzingen . Nothing has been handed down from the beginning. From 1846 the brewery was run by master brewer Heinrich Seitz and the restaurant Grünes Laub in the house was a renowned eatery in the whole region. Heinrich and Anna Seitz handed the house over to their son Georg, who died in 1885. His widow Barbara married the master brewer Johann Welde in 1888, the namesake of these brewing products to this day. Her son Bernhard died in France during World War I. After Johann Welde's death in 1917, his widow and daughter Elisabeth ran the brewery and pub. In 1919 Elisabeth married the young master brewer Hans Hirsch. This expanded the brewery considerably from 1934 to 1935. The son died in Africa during World War II . The daughter Bärbel married Wilhelm Spielmann in 1950. Hans Hirsch died in 1959. In his memory, the family coat of arms of the Hirsch family was depicted on the bottle labels and beer mats of the brewery for decades. Wilhelm Spielmann took over sole management of the company after Hirsch's death. Since further enlargement was not possible, the new bottle filling plant was built in 1971 and the brewhouse in the neighboring town of Plankstadt in 1981. The change from a small brewery to a modern private brewery with a diverse range of beers took place here.

In 2002, Weldebräu took over the majority stake in the insolvent Palmbräu brewery . In the summer of 2008, sales there was outsourced to a new company, Palmbräu Eppingen GmbH , owned by Weldebräu. The Palmbräu has been owned by the Pforzheim brewery since April 2009 .

In 2017, the Welde parent company - the historic founding site of the brewery - on Mannheimer Straße in Schwetzingen was demolished, creating space for a new building. In June 2019, the “Welde Brauhaus” opened, a new inn run by the brewery itself.

  • Instead of crown caps : beer bottle closures, ring-pull closures from Finland

  • Weldebräu in Plankstadt

  • View of the company premises from the north

Web links

Commons : Weldebräu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual financial statements as of January 31, 2019 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Professional distribution for palm brew . In: Heilbronn voice . August 4, 2008 ( at Stimme.de ).
  3. ↑ Harald Berlinghof: Spielmann invests in the old Schwetzingen parent company. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of May 23, 2017, accessed on July 22, 2019.

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 7.1 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 44 ″  E