Zug cherry
The Zug Kirsch is a Kirsch , the region in the Swiss train burned is and the designation of origin AOP ( appellation d'origine Protégée is protected).
Protected Designation of Origin
Since 2013, the “Zuger Kirsch” brand has been protected by being entered in the register of designations of origin (AOP). The cherries have to be harvested and distilled in the region. The area includes the entire canton of Zug, the nine Schwyz municipalities of Arth , Küssnacht , Steinen , Steinerberg , Sattel , Lauerz , Schwyz , Gersau and Ingenbohl as well as the seven Lucerne municipalities of Weggis , Meggen , Vitznau , Greppen , Meierskappel , Adligenswil and Udligenswil .
history
The Zuger Kirsch was already well known across national borders in the 18th century. In 1870 the Chriesibauern (cherry farmers) and Kirschbrenner merged and founded the Kirschwasser-Gesellschaft in Zug in order to improve the quality of the kirsch and to boost exports. The association, which has received international awards and gold medals, had its own depots and agencies in Europe and overseas around 1900. As a result, the numerous domestic and commercial distilleries established themselves around Lake Zug and the demand for kirsch continued to grow. The Zug cherry is well known today and is the core product of the 600-year-old Zug cherry culture .
Zug mercenaries in French service had introduced the kirsch into fine Parisian society. The region around Lake Zug was famous for its cherry trees in bloom; many Walchwil farmers had their own tree nurseries and supplied all of Central Switzerland with young fruit trees. In the course of industrialization and the increasing import of cheap fruit brandies from all over Europe, the Zug cherry brandy came under pressure.
In 1870, on the initiative of the Cantonal Agricultural Association of Zug, the Kirschwasser-Gesellschaft was founded in Zug , which consisted of 116 farmers and landowners from the Canton of Zug, with the aim of increasing the quality of Zug's Kirschwasser, avoiding counterfeiting and the promote worldwide export. To this end, the cooperative association maintained over 20 depots and agencies in Europe, Russia , Asia Minor, North and South America and the Caribbean around 1900 and sent out representatives who advertised the Zuger Kirsch with free samples at restaurants and shops.
In 1872, the Kirschwasser-Gesellschaft erected a representative building at Chamerstrasse 6 in the Neustadt district of Stadtzug with a storage capacity of 500 tons of distilled cherries and operated its own steam-powered distillation apparatus there, manufactured by Carl Georg Siemens in Stuttgart. The Zug cantonal school teacher and renowned Aargau chemistry professor Friedrich Christoph Mühlberg was appointed independent control expert .
Not least because of the improved road and ship connections as well as the new railway connection from Zurich to Lucerne opened in 1864 with the Zug terminus station at the intersection of Alpenstrasse and Bundesstrasse, which was built at the same time , the Kirschwasser from the canton of Zug gained worldwide distribution. From 1875 on, customers also included the Rigi tourists who boarded the scheduled boat to Arth at the new Zuger Schifflände on the Alpenquai in the immediate vicinity. The Zuger Kirsch won awards at international exhibitions in London, Vienna and Weinfelden in 1873, Philadelphia 1876, Paris 1878 and 1900, Zurich 1883, Chicago 1893, Geneva 1896 and Brussels 1897, and the company won the gold medal at the Swiss National Exhibition in Bern in 1914. The awareness and good reputation of Zuger Kirschwasser has increased significantly within half a decade. The Illustrirte Führer Zug enthused in 1885: «The Zuerich kirsch is not only valued at all European courts, but also goes to the most distant parts of the world and must not be missing anywhere where the fragrant mocha is served in Chinese bowls. The fragrances of Arabia and the fiery spirit of the Zugerberg cherries meet in the dainty cup of the East. Dried fruit and fine dessert fruit are sold in the closer countries. "
Heinrich Höhn, who invented the Zug cherry cake at Alpenstrasse 7 in Zug in 1915 , was inspired by the availability of cherry waters from the Zug region when he invented it.
In 1919 the building of the Kirschwasser Society in Zug including the surrounding area was sold to the Protestant parish, which subsequently used it as a parsonage and a girls' high school . In 1932 the activities of the Kirschwasser Society were discontinued. Numerous domestic and commercial distilleries were established in the canton of Zug at the beginning of the 20th century, business flourished, and the demand for Zuger Kirsch continued to grow into the 1950s. In 2010 the former headquarters of the Kirschwasser Society was demolished and in 2012 the Reformed Church Center of the Canton of Zug was built in its place. The stone coat of arms with cherry branches attached to Chamerstrasse 6 is a historical remnant of the golden age of the Zug cherry. The successor company of the Kirschwasser company exists today under the name KIWAG and is domiciled at the Etter Söhne AG distillery in Zug.
Zuger Kirsch is available in over 20 countries and has been experiencing a culinary renaissance for some time.
consumption
Some commercial distilleries and numerous farm distilleries in the Zug region now produce around 50,000 liters of Zuger Kirsch per year. For the Zug cherry cakes alone, an estimated 15,000 liters are required each year. As a specialty, the high-percentage fruit brandies are stored in demijohns in the attics of farmhouses, where the seasonal temperature difference has a beneficial effect on ripening. This creates typical taste nuances such as sweetness , nuts , marzipan and spices . Zug distillers produce unmixed cherry or assemblages from different sorts of burnt cherry with different vintages.
Web links
- IG Zuger Chriesi / Interest group for the promotion of Zuger Kirsche
- Zuger Kirschtorte Society / Association for the promotion of Zuger Kirschtorte
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zuger Kirsch becomes a protected trademark , Neue Zuger Zeitung, September 3, 2013, p. 19
- ↑ Marketing: AOP / IGP on the website of the Zuger Chriesi Association
- ↑ Website of the AOP-IGP Association ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Website of the Zuger & Rigi Chriesi Association
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Ueli Kleeb, Caroline Lötscher (ed.): CHRIESI, cherry culture around Lake Zug and Rigi. Edition Victor Hotz, Zug 2017.
- ^ Website of the Zuger Kirschtorte Society
