** Tins of Taste Museum ** within NationalBreadMuseum.org
GERMANY - A to G Lebkuchen Companies w/Tins
(Last revised January 11, 2025)
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The Tins of Taste Collection has at least one tin with an identifying name on it, for each of the following Lebkuchen companies (A - G). Tins for the companies in bold & underlined are on their own website page.
Tins for the companies in italicized green bold are on this page -- 2 at this time.
Companies listed with ^^ before their name are still in business.
There is no tin (yet) for 12 additional A - G Lebkuchen companies which are listed in the main Germany Index.
NOTE: If any information should be corrected, etc., PLEASE send info to breadmuseum@aol.com. Thanks!
A - D
Adam Kraft
Alois Buchner Straubing
Anker-Lebkuchen - Nurnberg (connected with F. Ad. Richter & Cie)
ARKO (Out of alphabetical order, but I needed APPEL & August to be together!)
APPEL & VON SAZENHOFEN, NURNBERG-N.
August Häusler
^^Bahlsen; F. July 1889; 1891 made 1st "Leibniz" biscuit" (cookie); Some "biscuit tins" are on https://www.bahlsen.com/about-us/
They have had a couple "Lebkuchen" tins, also. Location: Hannover
Barde-Lebkuchen C. Bardeleben Lebkuchen-Fabrik; F. 1851
BärenSchmidt; F. 1863; Location: Mainbernheim, NW of Nurnberg
DAUSCHER's * FRÄN * KISCHE * LEBKUCHEN; F. 1876
DELIKATESS-LEBKUCHEN XOX
Diakoneo Bakery
Düll
^^Eckstein; F. 1955
E - G
F. Ad. Richter & Cie-Lebkuchen Nurnberger - maybe 1884-1913
Ferd. Stemler
Ferdinand Wolff GmbH & Co. KG; F. 1839
Feurich-Keks
^^Feyler, Wilhelm in Coburg; F. 1892
Frank Lebkuchen GmbH
Franz Leonhardt
^^Fraunholz (1911) & Gebr. Fraunholz
Fritz Weghorn Schwabach
G. Cyliax BERLIN
Gebr. Dauscher - Nuremberg
Gebr. Koppe
Gebrüder Schmidt
Gegr. J. F. Kisskalt - 1801
^^Georg Goess - first mentioned in 1610; (today under Lebkuchen-Schmidt management) There's still a website, but don't know if there's been a recent Lebkuchen tin.
Gottfried Tobias Thomas
Grundig Work
Currently, tins for six German Lebkuchen companies from the above list, that don't have their own page, are on this page as of 9-14-2025.
This website is a work in progress.
Alois Buchner Straubing
This is a very small tin of 2.75" round x 2.75" tall. I got it off of German eBay, 2025, & the only reason I paid 15€+6€ = $23.02 with additional S&H to the U.S., is the goal to have at least one tin from each company I've discovered. (TTM #4431) Click to zoom tins below.
ARKO
This company might have gone out of business. (2025 - eBay.de 1€+4.50€ = $5.94) (4.38"x4.75") (TTM #4455)
Address had been in Wahlstedt, Germany. Click on the row of photos to zoom.
APPEL & VON SAZENHOFEN, NURNBERG
This tin has no identification except the APPEL-etc. above.
(4.5" x 5") (2024 - eBay in U.S. $20.26 total) (TTM #4221)
Click on the row below to zoom.
This tin has no identification except the APPEL-etc. above.
(2025 - ebay.de - 1€+7.49€=$9.69) (4.18"x4.75") (TTM #4413)
August Hausler
This tin has both Aug. Hausler's & Oskar Wagner's names on it, along with the initials, JNH. I don't know the connection, but the next tin is a third name in the mix!!! I don't know the history among them.
(2025 - eBay.de 2.50€ + 8€ = $11.49) (4.18"x7.38") (TTM #4419)
Click on the tins below to zoom.
The names on the bottom edge of the cover are the men.
Oskar Wagner
What the association was among these 3, I don't know! The tin on the left has an "Owa" on it. The photo on the top right has Oskar Wagner's name on it. (There's no Aug. Hausler name on this tin.) But on the bottom right photo, the "APPEL & VON SAZENHOFEN" name is on this tin! Who these 3 were, as Lebkuchen companies, a designer/tin manufacturer, or through time one bought out the other, etc., I don't know. It will be interesting if I get the history info some day.
(1€ + 5€ = $6.60) (4.25" x 4.75") (TTM #4328)
Click on the row of tins to zoom.
Bären Schmidt (Mainbernheim)
(https://www.baeren-schmidt.de) The company was founded by Johann Friedrich Schmidt from Nuremberg in 1863 and has been part of the Lambertz Group since January 2010. Herr Schmidt was a gingerbread master and confectioner. His company was known for the large gingerbread hearts with sayings or people's names frosted on them.
I don't know why there's only a photo of the very old colored cover in the files. Maybe someday the tin will show up!
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Germany
Today the Georg Goess Lebkuchen company is under Lebkuchen-Schmidt management.
The finest LEBKUCHEN is primarily a combination of many nuts, honey, & spices; then sometimes coated in a sugar or chocolate glaze. So delicious!
The "golden deer" - - in Germany it's known as a "stag" - - once a very well-known "brand image" (known as an icon today) in Germany for the Georg Goess company, still in their advertising.
Currently under the management of the Lebkuchen-Schmidt Company, there is a Georg Goess website with Lebkuchen products, but I don't know when the last tin was produced.