Debate of the German states which invented the sausages of Bratwurst

A row broke out between two German states, Bavaria and Thuringia, as to who can claim to invent the sausage of Bratwurst.

Until now, the “Wurstkuchl” tavern in Bavaria has claimed to be “the oldest stand in Bratwurst in the world”.

Die Wurstkuchl is located on the stone bridge in Regensburg on the Danube river. The oldest documented evidence of a cook or a food stand at the stone bridge dates back to 1378.

But now, the historians of Erfurt, the capital of the state of Thuring, fell on a document of 1269 which mentions the people who rented a building with a roasting stand for meat (Brathütte) and a roasting (Bräter) – more than 100 years earlier than the stand of the Regensburg sausage.

Historians are now looking for the site in Erfurt where the sausage stand was formerly. No restaurant, he claimed the title of the oldest Bratwurst stand.

Previously in Thuringia, the first reference written in Bratwurst dated 1404. He described how “1 Groschen for the heaps of Bratwurst” was spent in the city of Arnstadt.

Meanwhile, in Regensburg, the Wurstkuchl continues to make its sausages.

On their website, it is said that “many has remained the same” since the Middle Ages, with “The Open Charcoal Grill, homemade sausages made from pure pork ham, sauerkraut of their own fermentation cellar and the famous Mustard Wurstkuchl”.

In response to the report of an earlier sausage stand, the owner of Wurstkuchl, Alexandra Meier, told BR24 German TV: “To be honest, that doesn’t bother us at all.”

She said she was proud that her family will make sausages and that people come because of the quality of the products. “I don’t think people will say:” I go there because it is only the second older. “”

This is not the first time that there is a line on Bratwurst.

The Bavarian cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg both claimed the oldest title of sausage stand. Finally, a decision was judged in favor of Regensburg.