Description
During the founding period, at the end of the 19th century, breweries sprang up in Cologne like mushrooms. The founding of the PRIVAT-BRAUEREI HEINRICH REISSDORF - then called OBERGÄRIGE BRAUEREI HEINRICH REISSDORF - dates back to 1894 in Cologne's Severin district. Its founder, Heinrich Reißdorf, originally came from a long-established family of farmers, who were based in Zieverich, today a large community Bergheim, as a blacksmith and wagon farmer. A few years later, in 1905, the name "Kölsch" also celebrated its premiere for the top-fermented Cologne beer specialty, which was previously called "Wiess". After his death on 25.02.1901 Gertrud Reißdorf led the brewery as a sole proprietor until the year 1908. The continued existence of the enterprise was however secured, because the couple Reißdorf had five sons, Johann Hubert, Heinrich, Hermann, Friedrich and Carl tear village. In 1923, when the range was extended to include lower fermented beers such as Pils, Märzen and Export, the Obergärige Brewery was renamed BRAUEREI HEINRICH REISSDORF - OHG. In the war year of 1917, when the men were in the field, Katharina Reißdorf, wife of Friedrich Reißdorf, ran the brewery. These two had three sons: Heinrich Reißdorf - he died in 1936 deadly in the brewery - and in 1996 and 1997 deceased partners Hermann-Josef and Karl-Heinz Reißdorf. They led the company into the difficult economic times - the brewery was 90% destroyed - after World War II. Despite the adverse circumstances, the two brothers succeeded in mid-1948, a simple beer with 2% - 4% vol. alc. to produce and bottled. The company continues today in the fourth generation.
