The Anheuser family is a family from the
Nahe in the
Rhineland-Palatinate. The American
brewery family of
Anheuser-Busch fame are descendants of
Eberhard Anheuser who was born in
Bad Kreuznach
Bad Kreuznach () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a spa town, most well known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke, which is one of the few remaining bridges in th ...
. The Anheuser family has been producing
German wine in the Nahe since the 17th century and has continued producing wine for 13
generations under the name of Weingut Paul Anheuser.
History
The earliest record of
winemaking by the Anheusers dates to 1627 with an Anheuser operating a winery in Bad Kreuznach.
In 1842, Eberhard Anheuser immigrated to
St. Louis, Missouri while his nephew Rudolf Anheuser began purchasing more vineyards in the
Nahe valley around the towns of
Altenbamberg,
Monzingen,
Niederhausen
Niederhausen is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a '' Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Rü ...
,
Norheim,
Schloßböckelheim and
Roxheim
Roxheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Rüdesheim, who ...
.
In 1861, Eberhard Anheuser saw the marriage of both of his daughters to the sons of a German wine merchant from
Mainz. He opened a brewery with one of his sons-in-law,
Adolphus Busch.
References
External links
* Paul Anheuser winer
Official Site{{in lang, de
Business families of the United States
German wine
People from Bad Kreuznach
People from St. Louis