Station 17 - Brauerei Kitzmann

In 1712, Leonhardt Weynand Buirette v. Oehlefeld and Christoph Bever received the margravial privilege to establish a brewery. This later passed to Georg Vierzigmann, and then, through various other owners, to Johann Lorenz Kitzmann in 1833. By the 1870s, Kitzmann was among the leading mid-sized breweries. The company remained family-owned throughout and grew steadily after the two world wars and their negative consequences in the 1950s and 1960s.
After the closure of the Erlangen breweries of PatrizierBräu Nürnberg (1974/75), Kitzmann, the only Erlangen brewery, benefited from the local beer awareness of the Erlangen residents and continued to expand (including the construction of a new brewhouse in 1977). The brewery, which had remained at the same location for over 300 years, produced award-winning top- and bottom-fermented beer specialties using its own deep well water and home-grown yeast.