Rügen bath boy
Rügen bath boy is the name of a camembert made in Germany . With around eighteen million pieces, it was the best-selling German Camembert cheese in Germany in 2016. The manufacturer was the Bergen Dairy until October 2019. The soft cheese is currently produced in Thuringia.
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The Camembert was originally produced in Stolp , which is now part of Poland, under the name Stolper Jungchen . After the Second World War, the manufacturer Karl Wilhelms brought the recipe with him to the Bergen dairy on the island of Rügen . The protected name Stolper Jungchen made a new name necessary, so that in the GDR the " Brie from Bergen" was henceforth sold as a Rügen bathing boy .
The bacteria required for production were supplied by VEB Ostra Dresden . The calves' rennet, which is an important ferment, was obtained from Denmark.
The brand logo on the packaging was a boy in red swimming trunks with a sailing ship under his arm, in the background the Rügen chalk cliffs . From the late 1960s or early 1970s, the boy was naked. This provoked experts to protests. They did not want to accept a naked boy on the cheese box for hygienic reasons. But finally the nudist movement also caught on in the cheese industry . "After reunification , the bathing boy was shown in swimming trunks again.
In 1994 the production of the cheese brand, which had been discontinued after the fall of the Wall , was acquired by Rotkäppchen Peter Jülich GmbH and resumed. The Bergen dairy belongs to the Deutsche Milchkontor GmbH (DMK) .
Modern production required around fifty million liters of raw milk in 2006. The cheese is made without artificial flavors and preservatives .
At the end of 2018 it was announced that the brand would be sold to the French company Eurial . In 2019, the production of the cheese was relocated to the Altenburg dairy in Thuringia, causing around 60 employees of the Bergen dairy to lose their jobs.
Web links
- Website for the product of Rotkäppchen Peter Jülich GmbH & Co. KG
Individual evidence
- ^ Konrad Schmidt: Discoveries on Rügen and Hiddensee , Brockhaus-Verlag Leipzig 1978, p. 173
- ↑ Rügen bathing boy to France sold by ndr.de on December 28, 2018
- ↑ Press releases. Retrieved July 16, 2017 .