Brauerei Allersheim GmbH

The brewery was founded in 1854 by the then tenant of the Allersheim estate, Amtsrat Otto Baumgarten, who had studied physics and chemistry and then learned the art of brewing in Munich from 1851 to 1852. He built a brewery in Allersheim as a second source of income alongside farming. The Holzminden site provides fresh spring water from the Solling low mountain range as a basis for beer production, and the area around Holzminden is agricultural, so barley and hops grow in the brewery’s immediate catchment area. The estate initially supplied the barley itself, but the hops had to be bought in. Later, a 1¼ hectare hop garden was planted on the castle hill near Bevern.

The company founder died in 1887 and his widow Anna Baumgarten and her family took over the brewery until 1892, before Carl Scheidemann took over management in 1893 and doubled beer output to 40,000 hectoliters in 1900.

Scheidemann died in 1948. His son Dieter Scheidemann remained a shareholder in the company for the time being. Walter Berns took over the company as managing partner in 1948.

In 1950, over 50 people were employed and the fleet consisted of nine trucks and five horse-drawn carriages. A reduction in beer tax in the 1950s and a steady increase in sales enabled the brewery to become the market leader in pub dispensing in the Holzminden district.

In 1967, the family tradition ended when Walter Berns handed over management to Rudolf Weisbrod.In 1970, the Dortmund Actien-Brauerei took over 37 percent of the shares. Under the management of Walter Hopf, the Allersheim brewery took over the Förster and Brecke brewery from Hameln in 1978, which led to a higher beer output.

From 1978, master brewer Rudolf Trittel, a great-great-grandson of the founder, was responsible for production. From 1979, the Allersheimer Bügel-Pils was offered and achieved sales of 10,000 hectoliters in the first year.

Together with the local newspaper Täglicher Anzeiger Holzminden, the company has been the annual organizer of the press and beer festival (PreBie) in the Holzminden town hall since 1981.

The Förster and Brecke brewery was closed in 1985.

In 1992, Hans-Jürgen Breuer took over the management of the brewery. In October 2003, Rainer Stranz from Dortmund took over the management until December 31, 2012. In May 2009, the brewmaster and operations manager Rudolf Trittel retired and was succeeded by Rudolf Ley, who had previously been the second brewmaster. From 1978 to 2009, 3.071 million hectoliters of beer were produced.

On January 1, 2013, the previous authorized officer and head of finance and accounting, Bernd Stölzle, took over the management until October 15, 2013. After that, there were two managing directors, Stölzle and Stranz, until June 2014. In June 2014, Dirk Brüninghaus succeeded Rainer Stranz as managing director.

In May 2015, in cooperation with Victor Herzog von Ratibor (until 2009: Viktor Metternich-Sándor), Fürst von Corvey and the management of the Allersheim brewery, the new beers Corveyer Naturtrüb Hell and Corveyer Naturtrüb Dunkel were introduced.

Author: Caroline Porsiel