Sausage War: German lands grapple in a tussle over the meaty delicacy

A dispute has arisen between the two German states of Bavaria and Thuringia over who can claim the invention of the Bratwurst sausage, writes the BBC. It is noted that until now, the Wurstkuchl tavern in Bavaria claimed to be the "oldest sausage stand in the world." It is located on the Stone Bridge in Regensburg on the Danube River. The oldest documented evidence of a cook or a food stand on the Stone Bridge dates back to 1378. But now, historians in Erfurt, the capital of the federal state of Thuringia, have come across a document from 1269 that mentions people renting a building with a meat roasting hut (Brathütte) and a roasting pan (Bräter) – more than 100 years earlier than the sausage stand in Regensburg. Historians are now searching in Erfurt for the location where the sausage stand once stood. No restaurant there has yet claimed the title of the oldest sausage point. Previously, the earliest written mention of bratwurst in Thuringia dated back to 1404. It described how in ...