Archive record · Brewery
Brauerei auf der Platte
Zürich-Fluntern, Switzerland
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Closed
- 1812
- Archive ID
- TB-8ZE0JRQ2
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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From the record
Summary
Type: Heinrich Notz acquired the Fluntern property in 1812 and converted it to a brewery in 1824; major expansion followed in 1832–1833. Johann Konrad Rütschi acquired the business in December 1844. The brewery building was demolished in 1912. Status: CLOSED — Historical brewery / last brew unknown; Building demolished 1912. NOTZ → RÜTSCHI The 1912 demolition is a site-afterlife date, not a brewing-closure date.
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Ownership & corporate history
- Founded by Heinrich Notz1824
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0524 ("FOUNDER / OWNER"). Notz bought a barn in Fluntern in 1812 and had it converted into a brewery twelve years later — the Brauerei auf der Platte, opened 1824.
- Owned by Johann Konrad Rütschi1844
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Rütschi acquired the brewery in December 1844.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
The People
Behind the beer
Converted the Fluntern property to a brewery in 1824.
Acquired the brewery in December 1844 and sold most beer through his own inn.
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