German breweries per state in 1865

Guess what? More 19th-century statistics. And I remembered it was German month. Not Austro-Hungarian month. That's May. Or is May Mild Month? I get confused.

A fascinating table today. Showing wonderfully the fragmentation of Germany on the eve of unification. And how much the density of breweries varied.

Number of breweries per German state in 1865
	no. breweries	male workers	workers per brewery	population	pop per brewery
Prussia	6,817	11,026	1.62	21,793,900	3,197
Hannover	454	638	1.41	1,854,700	4,085
Kurhessen	332	402	1.21	738,500	2,224
Nassau	165	182	1.10	1,389,000	8,418
Hessen-Homburg	21	28	1.33	27,400	1,305
Frankfurt am Main	97	379	3.91	87,500	902
subtotal	7,886	12,655	1.60	25,891,000	3,283
Königreich Sachsen	619	1,324	2.14	1,916,700	3,096
Oldenburg	149	124	0.83	314,300	2,109
Braunschweig	90	189	2.10	292,700	3,252
Anhalt	77	120	1.56	193,000	2,506
Sachsen-Weimar	225	303	1.35	280,200	1,245
Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha	272	131	0.48	164,500	605
Sachsen-Meiningen	419	311	0.74	177,800	424
Sachsen-Altenburg	165	139	0.84	141,800	859
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt	109	123	1.13	73,800	677
Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen	69	94	1.36	66,200	959
Reuss, jüngere Linie	94	106	1.13	86,500	920
Reuss, ältere Linie	61	79	1.30	43,900	720
Schaumburg-Lippe				31,400
Lippe-Detmold	27	47	1.74	111,300	4,122
Waldeck	25	34	1.36	59,100	2,364
Grossherztogthum Hessen Oberhessen	352	103	0.29	252,400	717
Grossherztogthum Hessen Unterhessen	289	409	1.42	564,500	1,953
Baden	859	1,306	1.52	1,369,300	1,594
Württemberg	2,026	3,313	1.64	1,748,300	863
Bavaria	5,385	9,727	1.81	4,774,600	887
Luxemburg	36	87	2.42	203,700	5,658
Total	19,234	30,724	1.60	38,757,000	2,015
Sources:
“Bericht über der Welt Ausstellung zu Paris im Jahre 1867, volume 7”, 1868, page 133. http://www.populstat.info/

I find a couple of things amusing. Like Württemberg having more breweries per head of population than Bavaria. Or the most heavily-breweried states - Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, Sachsen-Meiningen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt - all being in Thüringen (despite the Sachsen in two of their names.

419 breweries for 177,000 people. That's crazy. And it shows how far the USA has to go before being saturated with breweries. At least by 19th-century, central European standards.

In case you've forgotten, (and if your memory is as bad as mine you surely will have) in the same year Austria-Hungary had 3,138 breweries at a rate of one per 11,256 inhabitants. Or quite a way behind Germany. Today the situation is reversed, with Austria having more breweries per head than Germany. (Austria has 170 breweries at a rate of one per 48,087 inhabitants. Germany has 1,259 breweries at a rate of one per 66,468 inhabitants. I include the numbers as I assume many of you aren't sufficiently motivated to follow that link.)

I'm starting to enjoy these old stats. That's a threat.