But ‘Rudi’ Arnold reconstructed the UERIGE: in 1945, directly after the end of the war, he began to clear the site with the help of his Köbesse (waiters) and brewers, who had returned home from the war, and supported by the waitresses and kitchen staff. Together, they created a new and at first rather modest brewery including a public room.
Reconstruction was completed in 1949 and the Baas, or boss, started to build an annex. The ‘Neweaan’ was opened in 1951, and the magnificent ‘Brauhaus’ followed in 1974, on the occasion of Rudolf Arnold’s 85th birthday.
- UERIGE 1962, 100
Arnold was one in a long row of headstrong owners. Amongst the legends that are told about him is the one about the tax for high-percentage liquor, which he refused to pay. His solution: he did not serve liquor anymore and had signs put up which are still hanging on the walls of the UERIGE today.
Rudolf Arnold died in the spring of 1976, but he had already secured a worthy successor.
On January 1, 1976, Christa and Josef Schnitzler took over the UERIGE. It was the talk of the town, because Schnitzler, a studied brewmaster, was held to be the crown prince of the ‘Schumacher’ brewery on Oststraße, which today is run by his sister Gertrud.
The Schnitzler family changed hardly anything about the lay-out of the rooms of the UERIGE, but they invested considerably in renovating, air-conditioning technology and equipment, but most of all in the brewery itself.