Mozartkugel

The Mozart ball, sometimes spelled Mozart Ball ( Reber, Treasurer ), was founded in 1890 created by the Salzburg confectioner Paul Fürst and named after the nearly 100 years earlier late composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The original name was Mozart Sweet.

The prepared according to the original recipe by hand Original Salzburger Mozart-balls are today made from the pastry prince and sold only in their stores as well as offered on the Internet for delivery. Lack protective rights of princes, there are many imitation products that are produced industrially mainly.

2.1 name creation
2.2 naming rights

4.1 Austria
4.2 Germany
4.3 Litigation

5.1 sculpting
5.2 The film
5.3 Photography

The original

The 1884 Come to Salzburg confectioner Paul Fürst opened his own business in the Brodgasse 13 In 1890 he exhibited for the first time the Mozart candy before, which he later produced as a Mozart ball in larger quantities and offered for sale. Fürst's performance was firstly the creation of a globular, flattened at any point praline. 1905 Prince Paul presented the Mozart ball at a Paris exhibition and was awarded a gold medal.

The original recipe

The "Original Mozart Balls " are manufactured by the confectionery Fürst still using the original recipe and the original formula manually:

First, a ball of green pistachio marzipan, nougat surrounded by molded. This ball is then placed on a wooden stick and dipped in dark chocolate. Then the stick is for cooling and hardening of the mass vertically - erected on platforms - with the ball upwards. Finally, the rod is removed, the remaining small hole filled with chocolate and wrapped the ball by hand with blue- silver tin foil. In this way, approximately 2.75 million Mozart balls per year are handcrafted by the employees of the company claims to be Prince. In the air-conditioned offices of the cafes in the Brodgasse / Old Market and the branches in Ritzerbogen, grain alley and across the street from Mirabell Palace, the balls remain around eight weeks fresh ( they are also available in the dropship, but not in other stores).

Current Awards

The trade magazine The Gourmet chose in issue 01 /2006, on a test of various Mozart Original Salzburger Mozart balls the ball in the first place. To be noted was that it was hand made and as a nougat flavor with a slightly bitter marzipan and pistachio note on. At the 2nd International Competition of truffle pastry trade fair in Wels ÖKONDA a gold medal was awarded in September 2005, the Original Salzburger Mozart ball.

The name

Name origin

The 1890 by Prince Paul invented as a Mozart candy specialty was first copied by other Chocolatiers and Shops in the city, such as the still existing Pastry Holzermayr and treasure. The latter - founded in 1880 by Carl Schatz - sold in 1900 for the first time these chocolates as Mozart balls, a name which quickly asserted itself in Salzburg.

Naming rights

The many Mozart Ball imitations eventually led to a lawsuit brought by Paul Fürst's descendants dispute that with the naming rights, not with the recipe addressed. The disputes concerned initially only Salzburger confectioneries, then the competition from Germany. It finally came to an agreement: The competitor must be satisfied by other names, such as the Headquartered in Groedig near Salzburg Mirabell company with real Salzburger Mozart- balls or the Bavarian operator Reber with Genuine Reber Mozart - balls.

1996 was a copyright dispute between the prince and a subsidiary of the Swiss food giant Nestlé - who wanted to bring an "Original Austria Mozart Ball " on the market - decided in the third instance: Only the products of the company prince may be called original Salzburger Mozart ball.

Artisan production

In addition to the Mozart balls of pastry prince in the city of Salzburg also those of the pastry treasure ( the treasure passage from University Square to the grain alley, just after the Ritzerbogen ), those existing since 1865 Confiserie Josef Holzermayr ( in the Old Market ) and that ( according to their own formulation) from the café Habakkuk ( Linzer Gasse 26 ) are known.

Also based in St. Gilgen confectionery Dallmann prepared according to the original recipe Furst her hand Mozart balls. They are like the prince balls wrapped in tin foil, silver-gray with blue print. There is also a Mozart ball - seminar is offered, so you can leave as a certified Mozart ball specialist train.

Industrial producers

Shortly after their presentation in Paris copied other Salzburg confectioners have become quickly popular Mozart ball and also the just developing confectionery industry soon began to produce these popular specialty because Prince had not let the name Mozart Ball protect. The Pastry Prince himself says to two competitors: " The Mirabell ball is just as real as that of Reber. "

The Mozart balls industrially produced not follow the original recipe, but are based on variants. Moreover, they are smaller in volume than the original and usually flattened on one side. In the Mozart balls of the company Mirabell the green marzipan core is surrounded by a ring of dark and light nougat cream. The Hofbauer and Manner Mozart balls is the nougat center inside and this surrounded by pistachio marzipan, also the Hofbauer ball is flat below. In Hofbauer said wrap is depending on the variety of dark chocolate ( Hofbauer red) or milk chocolate ( Hofbauer blue). There is also at the Mozart balls of the German company Reber of nougat in the center and is one half of white, the other wrapped in green marzipan, also they are also at a point strongly flattened and not nearly round. The Mozart balls of the German company Lambertz are also flattened on one side, a hazelnut nougat core is surrounded by pistachio and almond marzipan, also is a layer of dark chocolate. Both Mirabell as in Reber is emphasized to use no preservatives, no coloring and no artificial flavors in production.

The leading industrial Mozart ball manufacturer, Reber and Mirabell are in the field of EuRegio Salzburg - Traunstein resident - Berchtesgaden.

Austria

Largest industrial manufacturer of Mozart balls in Austria Austria is Kraft Foods, which is located under the brand Mirabell in Salzburg Groedig, and holds the rights to the brand genuine Salzburg Mozart ball. Claims to be a year industrially produced over 90 million Mozart balls and exported to over 30 countries. According to company disclosures shall be made by Mirabell since 1945 a total of 1.5 billion Mozart balls.

" Mirabell emerged from the Salzburg company Rajsigl, which made it the first to give also the Mozart ball machine made a perfectly spherical shape,. Fourteen individual work steps and two and a half hours does it take until it rolls off the production line ready for sale. Mirabell is today the only Mozart ball from the confectionery manufacturing, which may concentrically come on the market. All other major manufacturers have to produce slightly flattened Mozart balls. "

Furthermore, there is the the Swiss Lindt & Sprüngli company owned Hofbauer in Vienna that offers variants with milk and dark chocolate. Austria Mozart balls Victor Schmidt are also produced by the Manner company with production facilities in Vienna, Wolkersdorf and Perg.

Germany

By far the world's largest producer of Mozart balls is the company Paul Reber GmbH & Co.KG from the Bavarian town of Bad Reichenhall. Reber produces more than 180 million balls ( 500,000 daily) and in Germany alone has a market share of about 90%.

Since 1931, the company manufactures Dreher Mozart balls and was the first German manufacturer of Mozart balls. Since 2000, the Halloren Chocolate Factory AG is in Halle ( Saale), after the takeover and merger, which was founded in 1880 in Munich Confiserie Dreher to the producers of Mozart balls under the brand Mignon. Mozart balls also produces the company Lambertz in Aachen - including Aldi and Hofer. The German confectionery sales Hussel the Mozart balls "Vienna" in the range.

Litigation

Between the Mozart ball manufacturers Mirabell and Austrian government officials and Reber flared end of the 1970s a legal dispute over the trademark. " 1981 had Austrian government officials attempt to secure a deal that would allow it only Austrian producer for the production and worldwide export of Mozart balls. Reber had once protested. The Mozart Ball question also employed the Bonn Bundestag. Finally, Brussels decided on the dispute, the EC officials had rebuffed the treaty. "

Only Mozart balls of the U.S. group Mondelez formerly International power company belonging to Mirabell may be round. All other Mozart balls industrially produced must have a flat part (see above).

The reception in the art

Sculpture

In the winter and spring of 2006, 80 oversized in diameter around 1.60 meters tall, made of polyester Mozart balls were exhibited in the old town of Salzburg, which had been designed by artists. In the night from 27 to 28 March 2006, this action was affected by an act of vandalism. Unknown mounted in the Franziskanergasse from one of the balls from the ground on which it was fastened with screws. Then the perpetrators rolled the ball into the street, with a loss of about 7000 euro came into being.

Film

2006: Mozart Balls (English: Mozart balls ) - Director: Larry Weinstein

Photography

2012: In 2012, the photos were taken for the " Mozart Project" photo artist Stefan Dokoupil in collaboration with Gregory 's novel, which caused controversial reactions.

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