The company
The CARSTENS LÜBECKER MARZIPAN company was founded in 1845
in the old Hanseatic city of Lübeck, famous throughout the world for its
marzipan. Like many later marzipan producers, the firm was at first
active in the field of making conserves. Then in the second half of the
19th century the production of Lübeck marzipan specialities was begun.
By the turn of the century, CARSTENS was concentrating
exclusively on this strongly expanding field, and developed
into one of the most important firms in the Lübeck marzipan sector.
Thus, for instance, on 10 August 1874 one of our founders, Mrs Charlotte
Erasmi, was granted the title of supplier to the imperial court of
Emperor Wilhelm I.
In the course of the 20th century, building on over 100 years of experience, CARSTENS
ultimately perfected its industrial production of marzipan. For the
benefit of the consumer, today over 150 different premium products
containing the world-famous Lübeck marzipan are manufactured by means of
skilled craftsmanship to the highest technical standard, and
distributed around the world.
In order to satisfy the consumer's demand for high quality, our
firm relies exclusively on the use of the most carefully selected
ingredients and well-proven recipes. In addition, the unique quality of
our products can be traced to the special ratio used when combining the
basic ingredients: marzipan paste and sugar. The higher the proportion
of marzipan paste, the more intensively the aromatic almond flavour is
developed in the marzipan end product. Following this principle, all of
the chocolate-coated marzipan products and most of the marzipan
figures have a marzipan paste content of 90%. The low sugar content of
10% makes our products a delight to the palate
"Marzipan from Lübeck" is, in fact, a designation indicating high quality. As an indicator of geographical origin, this designation has been legally protected in the entire area of the European Union since1996.
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