Adelshoffen

Adelshoffen is the name of a Village disappeared from the the Low-Rhine. A Brasserie éponyme is built at the 19th century on its site.

Old village

Old texts locate a Village named Adelshoffen , between Koenigshoffen and the Bruche. Until the 12th century, the Village is called Adelochshoffen , in the honor of the bishop Adeloch (817 - 822), Précepteur of Louis the Piles. In the middle of the 14th century, the knight S of Schöneck, vassal of the town of Strasbourg, are Seigneur S. the Couvent of Schwarzach (Bade) and the évéché of Strasbourg have there also grounds. In 1392, during one of the wars opposing at the time the town of Strasbourg and its bishop, the Village, just like that of Koenigshoffen, is shaved by order of the Magistrat city to prevent that the enemy troops do not settle there. The inhabitants of Adelshoffen then obtain the authorization to be established with the bottom of the village of Schiltigheim, close to Bischheim. In 1502, the town of Strasbourg buys the village.

The village is successively called Adolsheim in 1521, Adratzhoffen in 1565. The cadastral books of 1683 speak about Adelshoffen by specifying that formerly the Hameau was called Adratzhoffen or Adelhardtshoffen .

Brewery

In 1864, the Ehrahd brothers base a Malt erie- Brasserie on the territory of old the Village of Adelshoffen, on the common of Schiltigheim, with the site of old a Huile laughs. The annexation of Alsace in 1871 leads the firm to found the brewery of the Meuse to be able to continue to serve its French customers . In 1883 the brewery is constituted in Public limit company under the name of brewery Adelshoffen . In front of the closing of the Border by the German authorities , the brewery joins in 1902 a German brewery, the Hahnenbräu Gesellschaft . The unit becomes then the Strassburger Münsterbräu A.G , a public limit company of German Droit .

After the German defeat of 1918, the Alsace turns over to the France and the Brasserie takes again its name of origin, the shares of the German brewery returning to the French Fields which put them on sale. In 1922 the shares of the Fields are repurchased by the group Fischer. In 1938, the Adelshoffen brewery becomes a public limit company of French right and adopts like emblem a Blason representing the Cathédrale Notre-Dame of Strasbourg, copy certified of the blazon of the old village of Adelshoffen, from which it draws its name. In 1950, its marks Pils , Münsterbräu and Select are recognized in the whole world.

In 1982, the launching of the Adelscott , beer with the Malt of Whiskey, makes it possible the Brasserie to overcome one difficult period. Adelscott becomes in 1987 the Bière leader of the brewery which brews 80.000 Hectolitre S of them on a total production of 360.000. In 1996, the multinational Heineken becomes majority shareholder of the Fischer-Adelshoffen group. In July 2000, the firm Brewery its doors. But the continuous Brewery Fischer to brew the beer Adelscott and it markets even a beer under the mark Adelshoffen .

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