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The Herrenapfel returns

The Kleiner Herrenapfel apple - firm, juicy, small, mild, yellow and red cheeked - is a variety that is threatened with extinction in Saxony. There are only a few individual sites with old trees at Glashütte, Zittau and Löbau. So that the Herrenapfel still has a chance, the Saxonian group of Pomologists wants to appoint it Saxony's fruit variety of the year 2019.

The Kleiner Herrenapfel has been around in Germany since 1800. Around 1700, it was known in northern Germany as Drufapppel or Drüfken. Where the apple actually comes from and how it was called earlier is not known. Re-growing the variety after its decline in the 20th century was due to the pomologist Klaus Schwartz, says a report by the Freie Presse.

Klaus Schwartz. (Photo: Robert Michael)

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