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20-521: The Neuzelle Cloister Brewery ( Neuzeller Klosterbräu ) is located in Neuzelle , Germany , and is best known for its Neuzeller "Anti-Aging-Bier". Helmut Fritsche purchased the Neuzeller brewery in 1992, which has been producing beer commercially for over 400 years, and is situated on the grounds of a 12th-century Catholic monastery , Neuzelle Abbey . The "Anti-Aging-Bier", which, in addition to

40-414: A berry-flavored soda used in making a Potsdamer . In 2023, the brewery announced release of a powdered beer. This beer or brewery -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This German corporation or company article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Neuzelle Neuzelle is situated in the north of the historic Lower Lusatia region near

60-510: A bridge over the Oder river had been constructed, the earlier one having been destroyed by retreating Wehrmacht forces in February 1945, near the end of World War II . The population grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s. It was renamed Stalinstadt following the death of Joseph Stalin. In 1961, during de-Stalinization , the town was renamed Eisenhüttenstadt. After German reunification in 1990,

80-579: Is a town in the Oder-Spree district of the state of Brandenburg , in eastern Germany , on the border with Poland . East Germany founded the city in 1950. It was known as Stalinstadt ( Stalinměsto ) between 1953 and 1961. The municipal area is situated on a sandy terrace in the Berlin-Warsaw glacial valley ( Urstromtal ). It is bounded by the Oder river and Germany–Poland border to

100-801: The Peace of Prague in 1635, Fürstenberg became part of the Electorate of Saxony . In 1815 it was transferred to Prussia , and in 1871 it became part of the German Empire . In 1925, a port on the Oder was created. During World War II , the Germans operated the Stalag III-B prisoner-of-war camp for Polish, French , Belgian, Serbian, Soviet, American, Dutch, Italian and British POWs in Fürstenberg with several forced labour subcamps in

120-898: The Protestant Reformation , even after the Lutheran Electorate of Saxony had acquired the Lusatias from the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II by the 1635 Peace of Prague . Heavily demolished in the Thirty Years' War , the church was again rebuilt in a Baroque style including rich interior decorations quite unique in Northern Germany . By the Final Act of the 1815 Vienna Congress , Lower Lusatia fell to Prussia and

140-492: The four cardinal ingredients of beer , adds spirulina and flavonoids in order to, supposedly, increase health and longevity, was first marketed in February 2004, and claims to have double the anti-oxidant effect of other beers. However, the German Beer Brewers' Association is not entirely willing to label these drinks beers, as their contents differ from those original Reinheitsgebot ingredients. In 2004,

160-808: The Oder River in the east. In 1367, Neuzelle with Lower Lusatia was purchased by the Luxembourg Emperor Charles IV in his capacity as King of Bohemia . The premises were devastated during the Hussite Wars in 1429 and the monks killed or abducted. Rebuilt afterwards, the monastery and its extended possessions with the Lands of the Bohemian Crown became part of the Habsburg monarchy in 1526. It remained Catholic during

180-592: The border with Poland , about 8 km (5.0 mi) south of Eisenhüttenstadt . The municipal area along the Dorche creek, a tributary of the Oder River, since 2001 also comprises the villages of Bahro, Bomsdorf, Göhlen, Henzendorf, Kobbeln, Möbiskruge, Ossendorf, Schwerzko, Steinsdorf, Streichwitz, and Treppeln. In the west, it stretches up to the Schlaube Valley Nature Park . The abbey

200-408: The brewery changed the labelling to simply read "Schwarzbier". In 2005, a German court upheld the brewery's challenge to purity laws and allowed the brewery to add sugar syrup to "Schwarzer Abt" and label it as beer, ending the 10 year legal battle. The brewery also produces a locally successful Schwarzbier , Pilsner , Bock , cherry beer, energy beer, a beer specifically developed for bathing , and

220-547: The brewery was ordered to cease production of their product "Schwarzer Abt" or face a $ 25,000 fine, because the drink contained added sugar syrup it was in conflict with the beer purity law . The brewery had been brewing the dark beer with sugar syrup in East Germany , which had been allowed under East Germany's permissive brewing laws. The brewery had not explicitly labelled it as beer, but as "A Specialty Made From Schwarzbier, With Invert Sugar Syrup Added Afterward". In 2003,

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240-554: The east. Eisenhüttenstadt is the eastern terminus of the Oder–Spree Canal . The town centre is located about 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Frankfurt (Oder) and 110 km (68 mi) southeast of Berlin . Eisenhüttenstadt is served by the Berlin–Wrocław railway line. The town comprises the districts of Diehlo, Fürstenberg (Oder), and Schönfließ. The town was built near the historic village of Fürstenberg (Oder) which

260-600: The monastery complex is held by a public foundation run by the State of Brandenburg. After World War II , Neuzelle was incorporated into the State of Brandenburg from 1947 to 1952 and the Bezirk Frankfurt of East Germany from 1952 to 1990. Since 1990, Neuzelle is again part of Brandenburg. Eisenh%C3%BCttenstadt Eisenhüttenstadt ( German: [aɪzn̩ˈhʏtn̩ʃtat] ; lit.   ' ironworks city ' ; Lower Sorbian : Pśibrjog )

280-552: The new residential quarter was developed by the modernist and Bauhaus architect, Franz Ehrlich , in August 1950. His modernist plan, which laid out a dispersed town landscape along functional lines, was rejected by the Ministry for Reconstruction. The same happened to the plan presented by the architects Kurt Junghanns and Otto Geiler. The plan that was ultimately realized was developed by Kurt Walter Leucht . Eisenhüttenstadt

300-416: The state-owned steel works were privatized , and most of its 12,000 employees lost their jobs. Thereafter the factory employed around 2,500 workers. The town experienced a steep decline in population, from just over 50,000 to under 30,000. Consequently, many apartment blocks have now been demolished, although some in the inner city dating from the 1950s have been renovated and restored. The first design for

320-556: The town and region, a forced labour camp for Jewish men, and a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . The present-day town was founded as a socialist model city in 1950 following a decision by the East German Socialist Unity Party (SED), alongside a new steel mill combine located west of the historic town of Fürstenberg (Oder). A few years before the new town was established,

340-566: Was a filial monastery of the Cistercian Altzella Abbey ( Cella ) near Nossen in Henry's Margraviate of Meissen . A first convent of brothers took residence here in 1281. From about 1300, a monastery complex was laid out, including a Brick Gothic hall church , which soon became the spiritual centre of the region. The monks were granted large estates, up to Fürstenberg am Oder in the north and Szydłów (Schiedlo) beyond

360-564: Was established as Nova Cella on 12 October 1268 by the Wettin margrave Henry III of Lusatia in remembrance of his deceased wife Agnes of Bohemia. Henry had acquired the strip of former Lubusz Land up to Fürstenberg (today's Eisenhüttenstadt) from the Silesian duke Bolesław II Rogatka in turn for his mediation in the duke's conflict with his Piast brother Henry III the White . Neuzelle

380-624: Was founded in 1251. In 1319, Fürstenberg ( Polish : Przybrzeg ) became part of the Duchy of Jawor within fragmented Piast -ruled Poland. Later on, it passed to the Kingdom of Bohemia , and Charles IV bought the town from the Cistercians of Neuzelle and allowed the construction of a bridge over the Oder to create a new trade route to Poland. In 1469 it passed to King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, and in 1490 it returned to Bohemia. After

400-609: Was incorporated into the Province of Brandenburg , where it remained until 1947. The abbey was finally securalised by the order of King Frederick William III two years later. The buildings were later used as an orphanage and a teachers' seminary institution. Nevertheless, while the Neuzelle parish church turned Protestant, the abbey church remained Catholic and in 1947 was consecrated as Blessed Virgin Mary pilgrimage church. Today

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