Archive record · Brewery
Brauerei zum Strohhof
Zürich, Switzerland
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Closed
- 1801
- Archive ID
- TB-JNKM33YN
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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From the record
Summary
Type: Detailed Zürich brewery history traces the Strohhof brewery from Jakob Meyer in 1801 through Rudolf Zolliker and Heinrich Hotz. Hotz requested deletion of the firm from the commercial record on 31 December 1857; the exact final brew date is not established. Status: CLOSED — Historical brewery / exact last brew unknown. MEYER → ZOLLIKER → HOTZ Do not equate the 1857 request to strike the firm with a proven exact final brewing date.
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Ownership & corporate history
- Owned by Jakob Meyer1801 – 1819
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Meyer operated the brewery until his death.
- Owned by Rudolf Zolliker1823
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Zolliker bought the property in 1823 and later transferred it within the family.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
The People
Behind the beer
Operated the brewery until his death in 1819.
Bought Strohhof in 1823 and established the Sonne brewery at Altstetten in 1836.
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