Stonsdorfer

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Historic bottles of Stonsdorfer Bitter
Stonsdorfer

Stonsdorfer is a herbal liqueur with 32% alcohol by volume, which is made from spices, herbs and fruits, mainly blueberries. Other ingredients are carob, star anise , bitter orange , cinchona bark, bitter roots, gentian roots and cloves. The taste is sweet-bitter and fruity-tart. In terms of color, red predominates.

history

The brewing company Christian Gottlieb Koerner in Stonsdorf in Lower Silesia came into possession of a liqueur recipe in 1810 and used it for the production of a herbal liqueur. The area around Stonsdorf was known for the production of herbal extracts and the like. Ä. Koerner combined the local traditions with his knowledge of liquor distillation, which he had previously acquired in Paris.

A great commercial success was achieved under Koerner's son Wilhelm. He moved the company to neighboring Cunnersdorf in 1868 and named the factory Stonsdorferei . The liqueur found worldwide sales under the management of Otto Stabrin.

The first trademark entry in the German trademark register took place as a word and image trademark on April 13, 1897 (end of protection date October 31, 2006), the oldest trademark registration that is still protected today as Koerner's Echt Stonsdorfer Bitter took place on November 2, 1908. The company had judgments from 1899, 1903 and 1971 the sole right to name their product Genuine Stonsdorfer Bitter .

In 1945 the company owners were driven out and rebuilt the company in Harksheide (now a district of Norderstedt ) in Schleswig-Holstein. Herbert Stabrin was the manager before production was transferred to the Berentzen Group in 1999 . An industrial park in Norderstedt, where the company was based, was later renamed Stonsdorf.

The name Stonsdorfer became a generic term. Today there are a large number of manufacturers, especially in the eastern federal states of Germany.

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