Contact Information Germany
Vereinigung der Johanisbeer-Anbauer in Deutschland e. V.
Puhäcker 2
74336 Brackenheim, Deutschland
Phone: +49 7135 16 880
info@cassismanufaktur.de
Head of organisation: Heiko Danner
Key Data Germany
Growing surface: 1150 ha
Average annual production: 5000 t
Varieties grown in Germany
Ben Alder, Tisel, Tiben, Titania
Germany grows 10 % of its blackcurrants organically.
Blackcurrants are grown in the Southern parts of Germany (Baden-Württemberg and Hessen).
Further general information
In Germany, the blackcurrant is well known for its health benefits (vitamine C and anti-gout properties). People widely consume blackcurrant juice, very often with added sparkling water (“Johannisbeerschorle“) all over the country.
It is Hildegard of Bingen, a German nun and polymath, who made the health benefits of blackcurrants well known in her medicinal writing “Physica” (“The Book of the Nature of Things”) in the 12th century. The blackcurrant is highlighted as the “gout bush“, relieving all sorts of rheumatisms and “brain gout” (Alzheimer / Parkinson).
This is still present in people’s mind in Germany today.