Dresden Stollen Festival
The Dresden Stollen Festival is a festival day in honor of the Dresden Christmas Stollen . It has been celebrated every year since 1994 on the Saturday before the second Advent and is organized by the Dresdner Stollen Association. V. and the Hommage Dresden GmbH. In 2019, the 26th festival was celebrated on December 7th.
History of the Dresden Stollen Festival
The historical origin of the Stollenfest is the Zeithain pleasure camp , which the Saxon Elector August the Strong had organized as an opulent troop show in 1730. For his royal guests from all over Europe, he had master baker Johann Andreas Zacharias and his baker's servants bake a 1.8 ton giant stollen. In the early 1990s, the Baden-Württemberg art and culture researcher Dr. Peter Mutscheller on behalf of Hommage Dresden GmbH to search for Saxon cultural treasures that had been forgotten in the GDR era. In the process, he discovered a copper engraving by the artist Elias Baeck in the Kupferstichkabinett, which showed the huge tunnel. Hommage Dresden GmbH and Dr. Mutscheller to the protection association Dresdner Stollen e. V. with the idea of taking this up and initiating a modern tunnel festival. Since the 1st Stollen Festival in 1994, the Dresden Stollen Festival has always taken place on the Saturday before the 2nd Advent, following the major baroque event and is now considered a highlight of the Dresden Striezelmarkt and the Christmas capital Dresden .
Background and content
With the Stollen Festival, the people of Dresden and their guests celebrate together with the Stollen bakers the Dresden Christmas stollen and the performance of Dresden's bakery and confectionery trade. The festival is becoming more and more popular thanks to the participation of craftsmen's guilds, e.g. B. miller, plumber, carpenter, chimney sweep, also to a show of traditional Saxon craftsmanship.
The center of the Stollenfest is the approximately three-ton, four-meter-long, two-meter-wide and one-meter-high Dresden giant gallery, the largest gallery in the world. After its solemn unveiling in front of the Kulturpalast, the giant tunnel drives through the old town on a four-horse horse and cart in a colorful, traditional parade with 600 participants. Under the gaze of thousands of onlookers, the parade route follows a circuit through Dresden's old town, past the Hofkirche and through the Georgentor . The goal of the parade, which consists of the giant tunnel car, further parade floats, historical parade pictures, fanfare and minstrel parades, is the Striezelmarkt on the Altmarkt.
Arrived at the Striezelmarkt, the ceremonial cutting of the huge tunnel takes place. The first German master baker René Krause and the Dresden Stollen Maiden perform the cutting ceremony with the 1.60 meter long and twelve kilogram heavy Dresden Stollen knife . The giant stollen is then cut into approx. 500 gram portions and sold to visitors to the festival for six euros within a few hours. The income from the sale of the giant tunnels goes to a charitable cause.
Records
With their 2,720 kilogram Dresden Stollen from the 1st Stollen Festival in 1994, the Dresden bakers and confectioners made it into the Guinness Book of Records and were able to beat the record several times in the following years.
The previous official world record dates back to 2000: The Super Striezel at the 7th Dresden Stollen Festival weighed 4,200 kilograms. In 2013, 4,246 kilograms were reached for the 20th Stollenfest. There were 150,000 visitors.
At the 25th festival in 2018, the tunnel weighed 3,850 kilograms.
preparation
About 60 of the 112 bakers and confectioners of the Schutzverband Dresdner Stollen e. V. is involved, who deliver around 400 cleat plates, each weighing eight kilograms. On the 1st of Advent, they are put together in about four hours of work with a complicated system to form a huge stollen and made into the shape of a Dresden Christmas stollen using butter and powdered sugar.
In 2018, around 1,350 kilograms of flour, a million sultanas, 830 kilograms of butter and 310 kilograms of sugar will be processed for the Stollenplatten.
The Dresden Stollen Girl
Since 1995 the figure of the Dresden Stollen Girl has accompanied the Stollen season and the Dresden Stollen Festival. As the representative of the Dresden Stollen and the patron of the Stollen Festival, the Stollen Girl is elected every year at the start of the new Stollen season for a period of one year. The candidates come from the ranks of the apprentice bakers, confectioners and bakery salespeople at the vocational training center for agriculture and nutrition in Dresden. The Stollenmädchen's training company must be a member of the Dresden Stollen Association. V. be. The Stollen Protection Association decides who will become a stud girl.
In public, the Stollen Girl acts as a representative of the Stollen baking trade, answers questions from press representatives and represents Dresden Christmas Stollen in various entertainment formats. It acts as a brand ambassador and testimonial in the national and international marketing of the Dresden Christstollen.
Holger Zastrow had the idea for the Dresden Stollen Girl in 1995.
The Dresden Stollen Girl since 1995
| year | title | Surname | Training company | Learned occupation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 1. Dresden Stollen Girl | Sophia Looß | - | - |
| 1996 | 2. Dresden Stollen Girl | Steffi Silbermann | ||
| 1997 | 3. Dresden Stollen Girl | Susanne Hayn | ||
| 1998 | 4. Dresden Stollen Girl | Susann Gnauck | ||
| 1999 | 5. Dresden Stollen Girl | Karin Seifert | ||
| 2000 | 6. Dresden Stollen Girl | Marlene Parth | ||
| 2001 | 7. Dresden Stollen Girl | Maria Grundmann | ||
| 2002 | 8. Dresden Stollen Girl | Katharina Franke | ||
| 2003 | 9. Dresden Stollen Girl | Sindy Funk | ||
| 2004 | 10. Dresden Stollen Girl | Denise Hoffmann | ||
| 2005 | 11. Dresden Stollen Girl | Natalie Liwadnich | ||
| 2006 | 12. Dresden Stollen Girl | Mandy Irmscher | ||
| 2007 | 13 Dresden Stollen Girls | Sylvia Biedermann | ||
| 2008 | 14. Dresden Stollen Girl | Luise Schneider | Dresden Bakery | |
| 2009 | 15. Dresden Stollen Girl | Christine Herrmann | ||
| 2010 | 16. Dresden Stollen Girl | Claudia Ruhmland | ||
| 2011 | 17. Dresden Stollen Girl | Lisa Straßberger | ||
| 2012 | 18. Dresden Stollen Girl | Cynthia Brozek | Wippler bakery | Specialist saleswoman |
| 2013 | 19. Dresden Stollen Girl | Friederike Pohl | Confectionery & Café Bierbaum | Pastry chef |
| 2014 | 20. Dresden Stollen Girl | Luise Fischer | Hinkel bakery & pastry shop | Pastry chef |
| 2015 | 21st Dresden Stollen Girl | Lydia Heidig | Confectionery Schreiber (Pirna) | Pastry chef |
| 2016 | 22. Dresden Stollen Girl | Marie Lassig | Dresdner Backhaus GmbH - your baking manufactory | Pastry chef |
| 2017 | 23. Dresden Stollen Girl | Hanna Haubold | ||
| 2018 | 24. Dresden Stollen Girl | Lina Trepte | Bakery saleswoman |
In 2019, confectioner Veronika Weber will be the 25th Stollen Girl.
Web links
- Website of the Dresden Stollen Festival
- Website of the Dresden Stollen Girl
- Website of the protection association Dresdner Stollen e. V.
- Official Facebook page of the Schutzverband Dresdner Stollen e. V.
- Official Facebook page of the Dresden Stollen Girl
Individual evidence
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung of December 9, 2013.
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung of December 3, 2018.
- ↑ Dresden receives musical stollen girl message from the MDR from October 11, 2019