Brewery No. 12 Liepājas Street

The former Manor Brewery in № 12 Liepājas Street in the 1930s

The former Manor Brewery in № 12 Liepājas Street in 2014

 The brewery in the photo was built in 1880. It was a steam brewery that in 1887, consuming almost 500 cubic meters of fuel, 4,500 poods of malt, 58 poods of Russian and foreign hops, produced 18,000 spring (about 221,400 liters) of beer worth 16,000 Rubles. It was sold in the town and its vicinity.

9 workers were employed, who, working 12 hours a day, received a monthly salary of 20 to 70 rubles. 6 workers lived in the brewery.

Before the First World War, there was a steam brewery of Aizpute Manor „NEUMANN & WIEDNER“.

In 1920, the brewery was bought from the last owner of the Manor, Lothar Grotthus, for a total amount of 2,000 Lats in equal parts by Alexander Wiedner and Wilhelm Schenck. In the 1930s, there was a “WIEDNERS & Co, in AIZPUTE” brewery and a wool spinning mill. The brewery also made malt kvass, lemonade and fruit waters. The building had 6 production rooms, 2 ice warehouses, as well as 6 apartments with 10 rooms.

On the left side you can see a residential house on № 7 Liepājas Street (built in 1929, owner Ruth Joffe).

On August 3, 1928, an advertisement was posted in the Aizpute weekly newspaper Lejaskurzemes Ziņas (Lower Kurzeme News) by the Russian oil company” –

„We hereby announce that we are opening a gas station with a pump machine in Aizpute, № 7 Liepājas Street, where Russian gasoline 0.725 is constantly available for purchase. Apply to H. Joffe at the market square in the store”.

The mentioned "gas station" was located behind a future one-storey stone building on Pils (Castle) Street on the left side of the future Joffe house.

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