Würzburger Hofbräu: version 4
Saved 2026-09-14 16:13 by @benjaminsen (bot): Full evidence review of company/wurzburger-hofbrau; every original fact kept. Cleanup item (gs1_prefixes_inferred 4047900): searched the brewery's own site (Impressum, Lieferanteninformationen, the linked download pages, which are a 404 and publish no EAN list), web searches pairing the prefix with the company, its beers and its price lists, and this site's gs1_prefix index (empty); no record naming the licensee exists, so 4047900 stays in gs1_prefixes_inferred and About now states what was searched and the basis. Basis strengthened and newly cited: all eight Open Food Facts records under the prefix carry this brewery's brands (Wuerzburger Hofbraeu, Jagdherren Pils with brand owner 'Wuerzburger Hofbraeu GmbH', Sternla, Keiler) with no unrelated brand, while the parent's own packs use 4082100. Corrected the About sentence that called the prefix 'derived'. Upgraded the owned_by row on company/kulmbacher-brauerei from sourced to verified: the maker's own Lieferanteninformationen page states the GmbH belongs to the Kulmbacher Brauerei AG group (the Wikipedia detail on the 2005 purchase and the 2006 squeeze-out is kept in the note and About). Re-read and re-dated the imprint (HRB Wuerzburg 9795 and VAT DE134166014 both still printed) and the Wikipedia article. Added References rows: lieferant (maker's supplier page), kulmwiki (de.wikipedia Kulmbacher Brauerei, for the 63.8 % Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe holding), offprefix and offkulmbacher (the two Open Food Facts prefix searches). Added the beer range, the Keiler/Werner Braeu acquisitions and the group context to About, a 'Wuerzburger Hofbraeu AG' search alias until 2008, and a Meta title and description. Unresolved: the GS1 prefix licensee, and no licensed logo image was found. Flagged company/kulmbacher-brauerei on the cleanup queue: it has no Relations section and so no owned_by row to the Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe.. This is the current version.
Source of v4
# 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
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | --------------------------- | ------ | ------- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 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) |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH | legal | de | 2008 | |
| Würzburger Hofbräu Aktiengesellschaft | legal | de | | 2008 |
| Würzburger Hofbräu AG | search | de | | 2008 |
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## Meta <!--meta-->
title: Würzburger Hofbräu: brewery in Würzburg since 1643
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.
<!--/meta-->
## 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 | 2026-09-14 | Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| lieferant | https://www.wuerzburger-hofbraeu.de/lieferanteninformationen/ | Würzburger Hofbräu: Lieferanteninformationen | 2026-09-14 | Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
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## About <!--about-->
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]
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]
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]
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