St. Leonhards
| St. Leonhards-Vertriebs GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1996 |
| Seat | Stephanskirchen |
| management | Johann Abfalter, Martin Abfalter, Roswitha Abfalter-Karpat |
| Number of employees | 40 |
| Website | www.st-leonhards.de |
The St. Leonard-Vertriebs GmbH & Co. KG is a mineral water bottler based in Bad Leonhardspfunzen in Rosenheim . The core business consists of bottling and selling various mineral and spring waters of artesian origin. St. Leonhards is the market leader for mineral and spring water in the esoteric and natural food trade. At the beginning of 2016, a natural cheese dairy was opened in Ruhpolding, the St. Georg natural cheese dairy. The company's own dairy products made from mare's and goat's milk are sold under this brand in certified Bioland quality. As part of the family business, two hotels are run in Upper and Lower Bavaria, as well as the two horse farms on which mare's milk is obtained according to Bioland guidelines.
history
According to legend, the St. Leonhard's spring was rediscovered by Christoph Riel in 1734 after Saint Leonhard appeared to him in a dream. Since then, three more deep sources were opened on the same source area: In 1999, the Mondquelle , 2003, the light source and the solar source . In 2006, another location in Ruhpolding in Chiemgau was put into operation. Two springs arise at this second source: the St. Georgsquelle - this water contains no iron - and a natural brine spring containing iodine.
The St. Leonhardsquelle has been owned by the Abfalter family since 1996.
The planned expansion of the access road to the source was the subject of controversy in 2008. The access road leads through a sensitive landscape protection area. Committed local residents and nature conservationists founded a citizens' initiative to stop the expansion.
Deep water
The deep waters come exclusively from natural underground reservoirs protected from surface water and are bottled directly at the source. There is only a legally prescribed natural filtration process of the excess iron. The iron dissolved in the water is oxidized with purified atmospheric oxygen, the flocculated brown iron particles are then filtered out over quartz sand. The water is then filled into the company's own glass bottles.
The St. Leonhards company sells nine different varieties from six different sources in the region (as of 2016).
Esoteric and pseudoscientific claims about the waters
The waters are not only tested, assessed and treated according to recognized scientific standards, but also by legally and scientifically unrecognized esoteric "biophysical measuring methods" (including the unscientific unit Bovis ) in order to record the " subtle " qualities as well as the "crystalline" Structure ”, the“ natural energy and all information ”and the“ original vibration patterns ”. Accordingly, the waters are mainly advertised esoterically, u. a. as " living water " and as " full moon bottling ", whereby completely unsubstantiated claims are made about the mode of action.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Press archive of the party-free citizens of Stephanskirchen municipal council meeting on September 13, 2008
- ↑ Quality criteria of St. Leonhards for the living water, accessed on April 23, 2016 ( Memento from April 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The Living Water of St. Leonhards, accessed April 23, 2016
- ↑ Interview with Johann Abfalter as a memento in the Internet Archive