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Brewing in Břeclav county
has a longlife tradition.
 The
result from all the materials
 and documents
 I
had is the fact that in 1297 Václav II.
 granted Podivín
a town law and the existing forged document allows Podivín /Kostel/ to
brew which is dated from the year 1360. The oldest reference to brewery in
Břeclav county comes from 1414 and is dedicated to a brewery in Břeclav
/Lundenburg/ (see Summary of
Břeclav brewery) but the year of an establishment Břeclav
brewery which is stated on the brewery labels comes from the year 1522.
References to the evidence of
breweries
§
the
brewery in Podivín
comes from 1526
§
the brewery in Nosislav is dated to 1559 which was
destroyed in 30Year War's (the mention of changing status of this
city to Břeclav county is here necessary)
§
other information about breweries comes from the year 1574, the
time of brewing
in Mikulov / Niklasberg /, Vlasatice
and Vranovice
§
the history of brewing
in Doní Věstonice / Unter Wisternitz / comes
from 1577-1930
§
brewing in Drnholec comes from
in 1578
§
brewing in Lednice and Pouzdřany
existed in the 16th century
§
brewing
in Bořetice comes from 1617 where the owner of the brewery
was Zdeněk Žampach from Potštejn
§
brewing in Velké Pavlovice existed from 1691-1843
§
according to the historical annals hop growing started in 1638
at Žabčice
courtyard
-
 the brewery in Kobylí
stopped to exit in 1691
o
 in
1724 there are mentions about the
brewery Nové Mlýny, in 1725
about the brewery in Poštorná
and in 1786 about the
brewery in
Diváky
The inventory from the year 1843 declares five existing breweries in Břeclav,
Diváky, Dolní
Věstonice, Drnholec
and Klobouky
and also one malt house in Velké
Němčice.
According to the
collector´s websites pivety.com, the first owner of the Břeclav brewery was
Jan Skála from Hradiště.
Information about his followers gives website VLASTNÍCI
A MAJITELÉ PIVOVARU BŘECLAV (THE PROPRIETORS THE OWNERS OF BŘECLAV
BREWERY).
The first brewery was built from bricks around 1560 just in the
place of a current malt house.
 You
can find more information in SUMMARY
ABOUT THE BREWERY HISTORY. From the Břeclav magazine I have an
article with the title BRIEF
SUMMARY OF BŘECLAV BREWERY. Beer doesn´t mean only breweries
but also malt houses. There used to be relatively many malt houses (spite
of the fact we are rather wine region) but nowadays there is none of them.
The closest one is a malt house of BERNARD brewery a.s. in Rajhrad and the other one
is a malt house of a the company DRINKS UNION a.s. in the place of a late brewery
Jarošov in Uherské Hradiště.
The
information about the history of malt houses in Břeclav region you can
get HERE:
In the years 1853-1910 the original brewery of the LICHTENSTEIN
brewery rented a company Hoffman
and Bittner who employed around 25 workers. In 1901 the
present brewery was changed into a malt house and a new brewery was built
next to this malt house. Local authority was ensured by central office of
Lichtenstein farmhouse in Valtice with the director Karel Šiller ahead.
In these years the beer production has grown twice as much (40 000 hl)
which led to the growth of emloyment
 - the brewery
together with a malt house emloyed 54 workers and 14 officers. After the Czechoslovakia occupation
(1938)
there worked 62 workes and 10 officers out of them. In these days they
used to brew around 50 000 hl of beer a year. And after nationalization in
1948-1950
the state authority was performed by Albín Procházka. The first director
was Josef Komenda and in 1951 came Jaroslav Černý. After the
„Velvet revolution“ (1989) and the entrance of market
economy the brewery expanded in the Czech and Slovak market.
In
1997 there was an exhibition of 212 500 hl of beer!!!
In
1994 the brewery was sold to the new owners which was the beginning of its
end.
The
last brew was in 1996.
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