Bottle

The 19th century was a period of intensive development of brewing in Pomerania, including Szczecin where several dozen breweries were established. One of them was a brewery founded by Herman Koch in 1863 at then Turnerstrasse 10/11 (now Jagiellońska Street), later named Victoria Brauerei AG. The fact that the brewery was located on a hill enabled digging out deep cellars, up to 20 metres deep, characterised by high humidity and constant temperature, which provided ideal conditions for lagering and fermentation of beer. The owners took care of modernising the brewery and expanding its operations. The bottles were labelled with an image of the mythical Sedina from the monument by Ludwik Manzl, found in Szczecin. In a short time they became the hallmark of the company. Victoria shut down with the outbreak of World War I. The lack of raw materials and markets led to the brewery being bought out by the Carl Wilhlem Kemp Nachfolgern A.G. distillery, a subsidiary of the famous Rückforth enterprise. In February 1945, the most valuable distillation equipment and documentation were taken deep into Germany, where production resumed in Rostock after the end of the war.

Anna Lew-Machniak