Niederegger

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Niederegger trademark (design: Alfred Mahlau)
Marzipan products from Niederegger

The JG Niederegger GmbH & Co. KG is one of the best known manufacturers of marzipan , but also other confectionery products.

Products

Café Niederegger in Advent

Niederegger's marzipan consists of 100% raw material. According to the company, up to 30,000 kg of marzipan are produced every day. The product range includes 300 specialties such as marzipan and nougat as well as pralines , truffles , Baumkuchen , Stollen and pastries . In addition, custom-made products are carried out on request. The products are shipped to more than 40 countries worldwide. Important foreign markets are England, Scandinavia, Russia, the USA and Canada. More than half of sales are achieved in the Christmas business.

Production of the raw mass

Almonds fall into a machine from the warehouse on the first floor. They are freed from the almond skin by scalding with hot water and rubbing against each other. The last parts of the almond skin are removed by manual plucking and washing in the washing drum. In a special room, almonds and sugar are brought together in a two-thirds to one-third ratio and ground by granite rollers. This is followed by caramelizing over an open gas flame in small quantities in roasting kettles. Other ingredients can be added. Dry ice cools the mass down to storage temperature. The mass is divided into 15 kilogram blocks and stored in the refrigerator for a week to a month. Liquids are then worked into the raw mixture in the molding process to create a taste.

Café Niederegger

Niederegger café in Lübeck

There are three Niederegger cafés in Lübeck: the café on the first floor of the main building in Breite Straße opposite the town hall stairs, the arcade café on the town hall stairs and the café in Lübeck-Travemünde in the front row on the Trave. There are 21 cakes on offer, including the Niederegger nut cake , but also small lunch dishes.

history

The confectioner Johann Georg Niederegger (1777-1856)

Beginnings

Johann Georg Niederegger was born in Ulm in 1777 . In Langenau he completed a pastry teach . He then moved to Lübeck in 1803 and worked in the Maret confectionery on the market . After the death of the owner, his widow Niederegger transferred the business ( Mareesche Konditorei ), who was able to set up his own company on March 1, 1806. Shortly afterwards Napoléon set up the continental barrier ( trade embargo ), so that Niederegger ran out of raw almonds from Sicily and sugar . Production came to a complete standstill between 1811 and 1812. Between 1812 and 1814, the supplies could be secured by smuggling via Heligoland .

Café Breite Strasse

The Niederegger house on Breiten Strasse, which was destroyed in 1942, was destroyed between 1805 and 1935
The Niederegger company building, decorated in 1906 on the occasion of the centenary

From around 1814 things started to pick up again. In 1822, Niederegger moved into his own office building on the corner of Hüxstrasse and Breite Strasse . This house offered enough space to later integrate a café and a marzipan factory. In 1832, Niederegger became the head of the Lübeck Confectioners' Association. He died in 1856 and left his son-in-law Karl Georg Barth a successful company. He introduced the mechanical marzipan production in order to increase sales even further.

Wilhelm Köpff, who ran the family business from 1864 to 1895, which still exists today, integrated a café and a reading corner into the pastry shop. He had previously bought the outbuilding on Hüxstrasse to create even more space. At that time there was a women's area on the ground floor.

Marzipan factory

For the 700th anniversary of the freedom of the Reich in Lübeck in 1926, Niederegger produced the jubilation balls . In 1930, a marzipan factory was built in Ziethenstrasse, and in 1958 another factory was added on the same street. The building was destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck at the end of March 1942 . Carl Arthur Strait began with the reconstruction in 1945, and three years later Niederegger celebrated its reopening.

Reconstruction and new construction

The brothers Jürgen and Henning Strait rebuilt the café on Breite Straße, which was destroyed in the war. In 1962, the old factory was replaced by a new building on Zeißstraße, which was supposed to enable higher production. Today the company has over 700 employees.

Marzipan Museum

Niederegger Marzipan Museum

On the second floor of the café in the Breiten Straße there has been a marzipan museum since 1999 with historical wooden molds for the production of relief-like marzipan blocks and a group of historical figures in human size made of marzipan. On March 1st, 2006, the Niederegger company celebrated its 200th anniversary. The cafes and sales rooms are a magnet for tourists.

Companies

Niederegger is a family company in the eighth generation.

Family grave
  1. Johann Georg Niederegger (1777-1856)
  2. Karl Georg Barth (1804-1884)
  3. Wilhelm Köpff (1838–1895)
  4. Johann Georg Leonard Köpff (1865–1931)
  5. Carl Arthur Strait (1884-1960)
  6. Jürgen Strait (1921–1963) and Henning Strait (1926–2009)
  7. Holger Strait (* 1949)
  8. Anna-Theresa Mehrens-Strait, Elise-Antonie Strait

The trademark in the Lübeck and Hanse colors of white over red, combined with gold, with the letters JGN in the stylized Holstentor , which is still valid today , was designed in 1927 by the graphic artist and artist Alfred Mahlau . To this day, the company also uses a font designed by Mahlau , a capital font from the capital letters of the Antiqua , and the packaging with other Lübeck symbols. The graphic artist designed the font, which is now marketed as “Mahlau”, but not exclusively for the Niederegger company.

Awards

documentary

  • Niederegger - a life for marzipan. TV documentary, Germany, 2010, 45 min., Script and director: Dagmar Wittmers , production: NDR , series: Norddeutsche Dynastien, first broadcast: December 16, 2010, film information from WDR .

literature

Web links

Commons : Niederegger  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "200 years of confectionery"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), Unternehmermagazin.de , March 1, 2006.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / Unternehmermagazin.de.dd14804.kasserver.com
  2. ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Horch: In the marzipan's make-up room. In: "Hamburger Abendblatt", November 11, 2017, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Horch: In the marzipan's make-up room. In: "Hamburger Abendblatt", November 11, 2017, p. 6.
  5. ↑ Chronicle , niederegger.de
  6. ^ JG Niederegger GmbH & Co. KG (ed.): Niederegger Chronik. Flyer, Lübeck, around 2011.
  7. ↑ Imprint - Niederegger Lübeck. (No longer available online.) In: www.niederegger.de. Archived from the original on October 13, 2016 ; accessed on October 13, 2016 .
  8. ^ History ( Memento from July 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), niederegger.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 44.1 "  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 16.7"  E