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HOLSTENTOR IS NOT JUST LÜBECK’S LANDMARK, BUT NIEDEREGGER MARZIPAN’S
TRADEMARK TOO
The company
Born in Ulm, in 1806 Johann Georg Niederegger acquired Maret Confectionery in Lübeck and developed the marzipan recipes that remain secret even today. The firm is now headed by the seventh and eighth generations of the family. The range comprises over 300 marzipan, nougat and luxury chocolate specialities. In the high season, 750 staff in Lübeck daily produce around 30 tons of these, exported by Niederegger to around 35 countries worldwide.
SWEETMEATS FOR CZARS AND THE QUEEN
Niederegger was supplying the Court of the Czars with its marzipan back in 1850, becoming a royal warrant holder for the German Emperor in 1908. With its strictly guarded recipes, today Niederegger Marzipan remains popular on every continent. Espe- cially for Christmas and Easter, elaborately packaged specialities are enormously popular as gifts. When President of Germany, Joachim Gauck took along marzipan from Lübeck for the Queen on his state visit to Britain. ■
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