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Mendel Brewery

Mendel Brewery
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Ana Maria Catalina, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
factory
Current function:
abandoned
Settlement:
Torda, Turda
Historical Hungarian county:
Torda-Aranyos
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.5643818801, 23.7791299207
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History

It was built between 1756 and 1814 by the Jewish entrepreneur Lazar Simon Mendel. The main factory building was built in 1911. It was the most famous brewery in Transylvania. After the Romanian occupation it was renamed Turdeana Brewery. It was later bought by the Ursus brewery in Kolozsvár, after which it went into decline. After the regime change, the Ursus factory was privatised and the new owners closed the Torda factory. The Ratiu family purchased it in 2006.

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