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A 14 KT Gold Pretzel Pendant !
This handmade German Oktoberfest style Pretzel, is 3 mm in thickness and made of solid 14 KT yellow Gold.
This Pretzel Pendant measures 30 mm X 18 mm X 3 mm thickness, weighing 10.5 Gram ~ Over one inch and 1/4 in length by one 3/4 inch in width.
A uniquely hand crafted Gold Pendant, for people who like their good beer and the yearly Oktoberfest, keeping up with a 1400 Year Pretzel Tradition and whatever goes along with it. ;-)
To all our EBAY Customers ! This 14 KT Gold Pretzel Pendant is unique and the Best for there are no others, except at the Oktoberfest! But no other Pretzel is quite the same, My Word is true, as it's sealed with my Name. This Item, like all our other Jewellery Items, is made by Goldsmith Hartmut Reinsch © brand NEW individually hand made Product of our 50. year old Family Goldsmith Shop * West York Jewellers * in Toronto / Canada For inquiries: Call 1 416 781 -3998 or email me , if you have any other Questions! Or our EBAY Feedback or use Google Search to check out our Credentials.Pretzel | |
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There are numerous accounts on the origin of pretzels, as well as the origin of the name; most agree that they have Christian backgrounds and were invented by German monks. According to The History of Science and Technology , by Bryan Bunch and Alexander Hellemans, in 610 AD "...an Italian monk invents pretzels as a reward to children who learn their prayers. He calls the strips of baked dough, folded to resemble arms crossing the chest, 'pretiola' ("little rewards")". However, no source is cited to back up these details. Another source locates the invention in a monastery in southern France.[1] [2] [3] The looped pretzel may also be related to a Greek ring bread, derived from communion bread used in monasteries a thousand years ago[when? ].[4] In Germany there are stories that pretzels were the invention of desperate bakers held hostage by local Dignatories. [5] Meyers Konversations-Lexikon from 1905 suspects the origin of pretzels in a ban of heathen baking traditions, such as in the form of a sun cross , at the Synod of Estinnes in the year 743. The pretzel may have emerged as a substitute.[6] The German name "Brezel " may derive also from Latin bracellus (a medieval term for "bracelet"),[7] or bracchiola ("little arms").
The pretzel has been in use as an emblem of bakers and formerly their guilds in southern German areas since at least the 12th century.[5] A 12th-century illustration in the Hortus deliciarum from the southwest German Alsace region (today France) may contain the earliest depiction of a pretzel.
Within the Catholic Church , pretzels were regarded as having religious significance for both ingredients and shape. Pretzels made with a simple recipe using only flour and water could be eaten during Lent,[8] when Christians were forbidden to eat eggs, lard, or dairy products such as milk and butter. As time passed, pretzels became associated with both Lent and Easter. Pretzels were hidden on Easter morning just as eggs are hidden today, and are particularly associated with Lent , fasting, and prayers before Easter .[9]
Like the holes in the hubs of round Swedish flat bread (which let them be hung on strings), the loops in pretzels may have served a practical purpose: bakers could hang them on sticks, for instance, projecting upwards from a central column, as shown in a painting by Job Berckheyde (1630–93) from around 1681.[10]
The pretzel has been in use as an emblem of bakers, here in Görlitz , Germany.
The emblem of bakers Hattingen .
Bakery emblem in Ravensburg .
Bakery emblem in Ribe , Denmark.