Lauterbacher drops
Lauterbacher Drops is a bitter bitters that is produced and bottled in Lauterbach , a district of Marienberg in the Ore Mountains . The bitter is known for its spicy taste and dark green color; the recipe is a company secret. According to the company, the spirit is unsweetened.
The bitters contain 40% alcohol by volume. It is drunk well chilled. The herb extract is obtained through maceration and distillation .
History and manufacture
The origins of the bitters can be traced back to Friedrich August Hunger, known as Schmiedfritzaugust , a herbalist who is well known in the Ore Mountains and who was even called to the Saxon court to heal all kinds of ailments. The recipe for the Lauterbacher drop was first used commercially by Schmiedfritzaugust's grandson, the company founder Ernst Friedrich Ullmann junior.
The Lauterbacher drop is produced and sold by the Ernst F. Ullmann company with headquarters in Lauterbach / Erzgebirge. The manufacturing company has existed since 1899, and the family business started producing spirits in 1910.
Kathleen Ullmann-Sieber is now the fourth generation to run the company. The small business currently has 13 employees. In addition to the Lauterbacher drop, 22 other varieties are produced according to their own traditional recipes; Vuglberry schnapps is also well known .
Cinema advertising media from the 1950s
Old distillation plant
Traffic chaos in Lauterbach on a sales day in the 1980s
Time between 1945 and 1989
Due to insufficient raw material allocation by the state, the demand could only be met to a small extent. It was therefore decided to sell a maximum of one 0.7 l bottle or two 0.35 l bottles per customer per day. The sale of the product was not uncommon. That is why the Lauterbacher developed into a second currency and a coveted barter in the Ore Mountains region .
Despite these difficulties and the harassment and threat from state organs, the business always remained in the family's property. After 1989 a purchase offer from a competitor was rejected.
Others
The drink has achieved great popularity in the Ore Mountains region and is popularly known as "Never die", "Waldbenzin" or "Lauti" for short. Numerous songs and poems were dedicated to the spirit by Ore Mountains folk musicians and poets. Examples are:
- Hendrik Seibt: Drink to Laudi
- Marienberger brass musicians: Lauterbacher, Lauterbacher glasses in hand
- Horst Schröder: De Zwack , Namm ner glei en Lauterbacher ei
- S. Otto: Have a drink from Lauterbacher
Since 2009 a small museum in the parent company in Lauterbach has been providing information on the history of the production of Lauterbach spirits.
literature
- Günter Baldauf: The Schmiedfritzaugust - an Ore Mountains original from Lauterbach . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter . 19th year, issue 1/1997, pp. 21-22, ISSN 0232-6078
- Manfred Blechschmidt : The Erzgebirge herb book . Altis, Friedrichsthal 1998, ISBN 3-910195-19-9 .
- Birgit Bobach: Profiles from the Middle Ore Mountains . Volume 1. Schäfer, Limbach-Oberfrohna 2000, ISBN 3-933322-11-1 .
- Helga Kaden, Heinz Kaden: Fantastics, owls, miracle healers. The book of the Erzgebirge originals . Altis, Friedrichsthal 2003, ISBN 3-910195-41-5 .
- Mighty relief . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1994, pp. 105-107 ( online ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.smwa.sachsen.de/set/431/sfa_06_03.pdf (link not available)
- ↑ Homepage of the museum ( Memento of July 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 23, 2012