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GERMANY - A to G Lebkuchen Companies w/Tins
(Last revised January 11, 2025)
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The Tins of Taste Collection has at least one tin with an identifying name on it, for each of the following Lebkuchen companies (A - G). Tins for the companies in bold & underlined are on their own website page.
Tins for the companies in green bold are on this page -- 2 at this time.
Companies listed with ^^ before their name are still in business.
There is no tin (yet) for 12 additional A - G Lebkuchen companies which are listed in the main Germany Index.
NOTE: If any information should be corrected, etc., PLEASE send info to breadmuseum@aol.com. Thanks!
A - B
Adam Kraft
Anker-Lebkuchen - Nurnberg (connected with F. Ad. Richter & Cie)
APPEL & VON SAZENHOFEN, NURNBERG-N.
Barde-Lebkuchen C. Bardeleben Lebkuchen-Fabrik; F. 1851
BärenSchmidt; F. 1863; Location: Mainbernheim, NW of Nurnberg
^^Bahlsen; F. July 1889; 1891 made 1st "Leibniz" biscuit" (cookie); Some "biscuit tins" are on https://www.bahlsen.com/about-us/
A cardboard, 1930 Express "tin," has a pretzel-shaped Lebkuchen on the cover - the only known connection so far with Lebkuchen. Location: Hannover
D - G
DAUSCHER's * FRÄN * KISCHE * LEBKUCHEN; F. 1876
^^Eckstein; F. 1955
F. Ad. Richter & Cie-Lebkuchen Nurnberger - maybe 1884-1913
Ferdinand Wolff GmbH & Co. KG; F. 1839
^^Feyler, Wilhelm in Coburg; F. 1892
^^Fraunholz (1911) & Gebr. Fraunholz
Gebr. Dauscher - Nuremberg
^^Georg Goess - first mentioned in 1610; (today under Lebkuchen-Schmidt management)
Currently, tins for these two German Lebkuchen companies are on this page:
Bären Schmidt (Mainbernheim) 1863
Georg Goess - 1610 - Still has a website, but don't know if there's been a Lebkuchen tin since 1988 (below).
At least one tin (or more for some) is in the TTM tin collection for these A - G companies & in time will be posted to this Tins of Taste page.
Bären Schmidt (Mainbernheim)
(https://www.baeren-schmidt.de) The company was founded by Johann Friedrich Schmidt from Nuremberg in 1863 and has been part of the Lambertz Group since January 2010. Herr Schmidt was a gingerbread master and confectioner. His company was known for the large gingerbread hearts with sayings or people's names frosted on them.
I don't know why there's only a photo of the very old colored cover in the files. Maybe someday the tin will show up!
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Germany
Today the Georg Goess Lebkuchen company is under Lebkuchen-Schmidt management.
The finest LEBKUCHEN is primarily a combination of many nuts, honey, & spices; then sometimes coated in a sugar or chocolate glaze. So delicious!
The "golden deer" - - in Germany it's known as a "stag" - - once a very well-known "brand image" (known as an icon today) in Germany for the Georg Goess company, still in their advertising.
Currently under the management of the Lebkuchen-Schmidt Company, there is a Georg Goess website with Lebkuchen products, but I don't know if there have been other tins since this 1988 one.