Tea Zwanck
The Ernst Zwanck tea shop , or Tee Zwanck for short , was founded in 1796 and is considered the oldest tea shop in Hamburg .
history
On September 29, 1796, Gottlieb Wilhelm Alexander Westphal founded the tea trade at Cremon in Hamburg.
As a result of the connection of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to the German Customs Union in 1888, the duty exemption was reduced to the area of the free port . For the Westphal company, this change led to the relocation of the business premises from Cremon to the free port area. The shop was taken over in 1892 by Ernst Zwanck, who was a long-time employee and authorized signatory of Westphal and to whom the tea shop owes its current name.
Around 1900 Ernst Zwanck moved to the wooden bridge 7. At that time, the tea shop was purveyor to the court of the Imperial Prince Household in Plön . Tee Zwanck benefited from the increasing consumption of tea in Germany and built up a customer base across the country.
During the Second World War , the tea shops, first on the wooden bridge and later on the plan, were completely destroyed. Tee Zwanck suffered in the post-war years and drove the first few years out of the private apartment of the then owner Anton Dangl at Loogeplatz 1.
In 1958 Hermann Otto Boesche took over Tee Zwanck. Under his leadership, Tee Zwanck expanded its own tea blends in the following decades.
Tee Zwanck currently stocks around 150 types of tea, including 20 blends, which are prepared in the Hamburg facility and has customers in 18 countries in Europe and North America. The company has been owned by the Boesche family since 1958.
literature
- Erich Lüth: GWA Westphal Sohn & Co. GmbH 1796–1971. Hamburg 1971.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Erich Lüth: GWA Westphal Sohn & Co. GmbH 1796 - 1971 . Hamburg 1971.
- ↑ a b c company history. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Company website. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .