Würzburger Hofbräu: version 3

Saved 2026-09-14 13:23 by site bot: Prefix restored as inferred: 4047900 (removed by the prefix audit; About gives the basis; waits for a source). Current is v4.

Changes from v3 to current

1	1		# Würzburger Hofbräu <!--company-->
2	2
3	3		## Identity <!--identity-->
4	4		name: Würzburger Hofbräu
5	5		disambiguation: the brewery company in Würzburg
6	6		legal_name: Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH
7	7		country: DE
8	8		website: https://www.wuerzburger-hofbraeu.de/
9	9		register_ids: DE-HRB:Würzburg 9795, VAT:DE134166014
10	10		gs1_prefixes_inferred: 4047900
11	11		founded: 1643
12	12		<!--/identity-->
13	13
14	14		## Relations <!--relations-->
15		−	\| role \| target \| market \| from \| until \| ended \| status \| source \| note \|
16		−	\| -------- \| --------------------------- \| ------ \| ------- \| ----- \| ----- \| ------- \| ------ \| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \|
17		−	\| owned_by \| company/kulmbacher-brauerei \| \| 2005-01 \| \| \| sourced \| ^wiki \| Kulmbacher Brauerei AG bought the von Finck family's 90.7 % stake in January 2005; minority shareholders were squeezed out in May 2006 \|
	15	+	\| role \| target \| market \| from \| until \| ended \| status \| source \| note \|
	16	+	\| -------- \| --------------------------- \| ------ \| ------- \| ----- \| ----- \| -------- \| ---------- \| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \|
	17	+	\| owned_by \| company/kulmbacher-brauerei \| \| 2005-01 \| \| \| verified \| ^lieferant \| The brewery's own supplier page states it belongs to the Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft group; Kulmbacher bought the von Finck family's 90.7 % stake in January 2005 and squeezed out the minority shareholders in May 2006 (^wiki) \|
18	18		<!--/relations-->
19	19
20	20		## Aliases <!--aliases-->
21		−	\| name \| type \| locale \| from \| until \|
22		−	\| ------------------------------------- \| ----- \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \|
23		−	\| Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH \| legal \| de \| 2008 \| \|
24		−	\| Würzburger Hofbräu Aktiengesellschaft \| legal \| de \| \| 2008 \|
	21	+	\| name \| type \| locale \| from \| until \|
	22	+	\| ------------------------------------- \| ------ \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \|
	23	+	\| Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH \| legal \| de \| 2008 \| \|
	24	+	\| Würzburger Hofbräu Aktiengesellschaft \| legal \| de \| \| 2008 \|
	25	+	\| Würzburger Hofbräu AG \| search \| de \| \| 2008 \|
25	26		<!--/aliases-->
26	27
	28	+	## Meta <!--meta-->
	29	+	title: Würzburger Hofbräu: brewery in Würzburg since 1643
	30	+	description: Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH, the Würzburg brewery founded in 1643 and part of the Kulmbacher Brauerei group: register numbers, ownership and the GS1 prefix 4047900.
	31	+	<!--/meta-->
	32	+
27	33		## References <!--references-->
28		−	\| ref \| url \| title \| accessed \| publisher \| kind \| published \| record_id \| locator \| licence \| attribution \| upstream \|
29		−	\| ------- \| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- \| -------------------------------------------------- \| ---------- \| ---------------------------- \| ------------ \| ---------- \| ------------- \| ---------------------------- \| ------------ \| ---------------------------- \| -------- \|
30		−	\| label \| https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/404/790/000/0217/1.jpg \| Back label photo, Würzburger Hofbräu Pilsner 0.5 l \| 2026-09-13 \| Open Food Facts contributors \| pack \| 2023-03-25 \| 4047900000217 \| Open Food Facts raw upload 1 \| CC BY-SA 3.0 \| Open Food Facts contributors \| \|
31		−	\| imprint \| https://www.wuerzburger-hofbraeu.de/impressum/ \| Würzburger Hofbräu: Impressum \| 2026-09-13 \| Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH \| manufacturer \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
32		−	\| wiki \| https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburger_Hofbr%C3%A4u \| Wikipedia (de): Würzburger Hofbräu \| 2026-09-13 \| Wikipedia \| publication \| \| \| Geschichte; Biersorten \| CC BY-SA 4.0 \| Wikipedia contributors \| \|
	34	+	\| ref \| url \| title \| accessed \| publisher \| kind \| published \| record_id \| locator \| licence \| attribution \| upstream \|
	35	+	\| ------------- \| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ------------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------- \| ---------------------------- \| ------------ \| ---------- \| ------------- \| ---------------------------- \| ------------ \| ---------------------------- \| -------- \|
	36	+	\| label \| https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/404/790/000/0217/1.jpg \| Back label photo, Würzburger Hofbräu Pilsner 0.5 l \| 2026-09-13 \| Open Food Facts contributors \| pack \| 2023-03-25 \| 4047900000217 \| Open Food Facts raw upload 1 \| CC BY-SA 3.0 \| Open Food Facts contributors \| \|
	37	+	\| imprint \| https://www.wuerzburger-hofbraeu.de/impressum/ \| Würzburger Hofbräu: Impressum \| 2026-09-14 \| Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH \| manufacturer \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
	38	+	\| lieferant \| https://www.wuerzburger-hofbraeu.de/lieferanteninformationen/ \| Würzburger Hofbräu: Lieferanteninformationen \| 2026-09-14 \| Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH \| manufacturer \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
	39	+	\| wiki \| https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburger_Hofbr%C3%A4u \| Wikipedia (de): Würzburger Hofbräu \| 2026-09-14 \| Wikipedia \| publication \| \| \| Geschichte; Biersorten \| CC BY-SA 4.0 \| Wikipedia contributors \| \|
	40	+	\| kulmwiki \| https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulmbacher_Brauerei \| Wikipedia (de): Kulmbacher Brauerei \| 2026-09-14 \| Wikipedia \| publication \| \| \| Einleitung \| CC BY-SA 4.0 \| Wikipedia contributors \| \|
	41	+	\| offprefix \| https://search.openfoodfacts.org/search?q=code%3A4047900*&fields=code%2Cbrands%2Cproduct_name%2Ccountries_tags \| Open Food Facts search: every record under GS1 prefix 4047900 \| 2026-09-14 \| Open Food Facts \| catalogue \| \| \| 8 records \| ODbL \| Open Food Facts contributors \| \|
	42	+	\| offkulmbacher \| https://search.openfoodfacts.org/search?q=brands%3A%22Kulmbacher%22&fields=code%2Cbrands%2Cproduct_name \| Open Food Facts search: packs branded Kulmbacher \| 2026-09-14 \| Open Food Facts \| catalogue \| \| \| 8 records \| ODbL \| Open Food Facts contributors \| \|
33	43		<!--/references-->
34	44
35	45		## About <!--about-->
36		−	Brewery in Würzburg, Germany, founded in 1643 by Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp von Schönborn. A resolution of 16 April 2008 converted it from a stock corporation into a GmbH, and it has belonged to Kulmbacher Brauerei since 2005.[^wiki] Its address is Höchberger Straße 28, 97082 Würzburg, and it is registered at the Würzburg local court under HRB 9795.[^imprint] The GS1 prefix 4047900 is entered here as derived, not confirmed: the company is the operator printed on the label of barcode 4047900000217, but no public GS1 record names the licensee.[^label]
	46	+	Brewery in Würzburg, Germany, founded in 1643 by Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp von Schönborn and the oldest company still trading in the city; it has brewed at the foot of the Marienberg fortress since 1882 and its range runs from Würzburger Hofbräu Pilsner, Export, Hell, Leicht, Lager 1643 and Alkoholfrei to the Julius Echter wheat beers, the Sternla line and the seasonal Kiliani Festbier.[^wiki] A resolution of the shareholders' meeting of 16 April 2008 converted it from a stock corporation into a GmbH.[^wiki] Its seat is Höchberger Straße 28, 97082 Würzburg, and it is registered at the Würzburg local court under HRB 9795 with VAT number DE 134166014.[^imprint] The brewery's own supplier page states that it belongs to the group of Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft, which runs its purchasing centrally from Kulmbach.[^lieferant]
	47	+
	48	+	Kulmbacher Brauerei AG bought the von Finck family's 90.7 % shareholding in January 2005, bought further shares on the open market and squeezed out the remaining minority shareholders in May 2006 at 496.95 EUR per share; the stock-exchange listing ended in November 2006.[^wiki] Kulmbacher is in turn 63.8 % held by the Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe, a joint venture of Heineken and the Schörghuber group.[^kulmwiki] The brewery took over the Lohr brewery in 2001, today Keiler Bier GmbH, and the Werner Bräu brewery in Poppenhausen in 1999, closing that site in October 2007.[^wiki]
	49	+
	50	+	GS1 company prefix 4047900 stays inferred rather than sourced: no record naming its licensee was found. Searched on 14 September 2026: the brewery's own site (Impressum, Lieferanteninformationen and the linked download pages, none of which publishes an article or EAN list), web searches pairing the prefix with the company name, its beers and its price lists, and this site's own index of company stubs stating the prefix, which is empty. The published GS1 registry routes (Verified by GS1, GEPIR) serve no public licensee data. The basis for the inference is that all eight Open Food Facts records under 4047900 carry brands of this brewery — Würzburger Hofbräu, Jagdherren Pils (whose record names Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH as the brand owner), Sternla, and Keiler from its Lohr subsidiary — with no unrelated brand in the block,[^offprefix] while the parent company's own packs sit under a different prefix, 4082100.[^offkulmbacher] The back label of 4047900000217 names Würzburger Hofbräu as the operator of the pack.[^label]
37	51		<!--/about-->

Source of v3

# Würzburger Hofbräu <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Würzburger Hofbräu
disambiguation: the brewery company in Würzburg
legal_name: Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH
country: DE
website: https://www.wuerzburger-hofbraeu.de/
register_ids: DE-HRB:Würzburg 9795, VAT:DE134166014
gs1_prefixes_inferred: 4047900
founded: 1643
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target                      | market | from    | until | ended | status  | source | note                                                                                                                                   |
| -------- | --------------------------- | ------ | ------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/kulmbacher-brauerei |        | 2005-01 |       |       | sourced | ^wiki  | Kulmbacher Brauerei AG bought the von Finck family's 90.7 % stake in January 2005; minority shareholders were squeezed out in May 2006 |
<!--/relations-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                                  | type  | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH               | legal | de     | 2008 |       |
| Würzburger Hofbräu Aktiengesellschaft | legal | de     |      | 2008  |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref     | url                                                                     | title                                              | accessed   | publisher                    | kind         | published  | record_id     | locator                      | licence      | attribution                  | upstream |
| ------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | ------------- | ---------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | -------- |
| label   | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/404/790/000/0217/1.jpg | Back label photo, Würzburger Hofbräu Pilsner 0.5 l | 2026-09-13 | Open Food Facts contributors | pack         | 2023-03-25 | 4047900000217 | Open Food Facts raw upload 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors |          |
| imprint | https://www.wuerzburger-hofbraeu.de/impressum/                          | Würzburger Hofbräu: Impressum                      | 2026-09-13 | Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH      | manufacturer |            |               |                              |              |                              |          |
| wiki    | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburger_Hofbr%C3%A4u              | Wikipedia (de): Würzburger Hofbräu                 | 2026-09-13 | Wikipedia                    | publication  |            |               | Geschichte; Biersorten       | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors       |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Brewery in Würzburg, Germany, founded in 1643 by Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp von Schönborn. A resolution of 16 April 2008 converted it from a stock corporation into a GmbH, and it has belonged to Kulmbacher Brauerei since 2005.[^wiki] Its address is Höchberger Straße 28, 97082 Würzburg, and it is registered at the Würzburg local court under HRB 9795.[^imprint] The GS1 prefix 4047900 is entered here as derived, not confirmed: the company is the operator printed on the label of barcode 4047900000217, but no public GS1 record names the licensee.[^label]
<!--/about-->