The first Dresden Christmas stollen have already been baked. Two months before the start of Advent, the ambassador for the special Christmas pastry for the season has also been found.
Dresden – Lorna Prenzel is the 30th Dresden Stollen Girl and thus the new representative of the famous Christmas pastry. “I am very proud that I can now represent it for a year,” said the 22-year-old, who is training to be a baker in the state capital and is in her third year of training, at her presentation on Tuesday. She will also promote the delicacy nationwide.
“Today brings together many moments for me,” said the Elbe city native. “Dresden is my home and is linked to countless memories from my childhood.” On her travels in recent years, she has made many friends, “who I like to show our region on hikes and thus always get new perspectives.” The office opens up “another new perspective” for her.
Stollenmädchen has many hobbies
The Dresdner Stollen Protection Association praised the young woman, whose hobbies include hiking and several martial arts, as “energetic, self-confident and with a great respect for the craft.” The impetus to learn it herself and later spread it around the world came during a hike after graduating from high school in 2022 over 4,000 kilometers from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. She noticed “how important German bakeries are abroad and how much they are valued.”
The association has been electing a Dresden Stollen Girl every autumn since 1995. The applicants must have good grades in vocational school, brilliant specialist knowledge and a great passion for Dresden’s number one Christmas pastry. During her term of office, a Stollen Girl has a good 50 mandatory appointments, in the past including at the ITB travel fair, for the traditional pastry, whose origins date back to the 14th century. dpa
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