2023-07-12 09:59:27
It constantly drips from the slate ceiling and wears away the stone on the floor. A few steps from the puddle, Wolfgang von der Heide and his three sons wisely stack dozens of gray flat boxes into a tower. They also cover the approximately man-high structure with a plastic tarpaulin. Because freshly baked Stollen are packed tightly in the boxes. The spicy cakes must not get wet. Otherwise the baker’s family could throw them in the trash. This in turn would not only upset the von der Heides, but also customers in Great Britain and the Far East.
Thorsten Winter
Correspondent for the Rhein-Main-Zeitung for central Hesse and the Wetterau.
Because the bakery based in Willigen in the Upland exports the delicacies as far as Japan. And this with growing success: sales abroad are tending to increase. The company recently sold almost a fifth of its bread and stollen products outside Germany. The medium-sized company founded in 1861 is now hoping for the Hessian Export Prize, which will be presented in Darmstadt on Wednesday evening in the presence of Economics Minister Tarek Al-Wazir (The Greens).
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