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The sweet capital of sugar. We discover the secrets of Lower Silesia with Joanna Lamparska [FILM, episode 138]
The first Europeans to taste sugar were probably the soldiers of Alexander the Great. When they invaded India in 337 BC, they became interested in "the reed that yields honey without bees." Shamans claimed that this reed heals hard-to-heal wounds, high fever, and in addition improves mood and eliminates hiccups.
The word sugar comes from the ancient Indian Sanskrit word meaning "grain of sand, gravel". When sugar came to Europe, it received the Latin name succarum. Once it was the sweetness of kings, a luxury item, it was offered by lovers all over Europe, and in the Middle Ages it was given as a sedative.
Sugarcane was imported from overseas countries, but its supplies were interrupted by the Franco-English economic war. In 1806, Napoleon ordered a continental blockade, which meant the severing of all contact between Great Britain and French-controlled Europe. Under the new regulations, trade in coffee and sugar was legal only if proven to be of non-British colonies.
In the 1920s, Melchior Wańkowicz, a Polish writer, received 5,000 for the advertising slogan "sugar strengthens". PLN, i.e. 500 dollars per word at that time. There was real money to be made in sugar.
The Scholler sugar factory in Klecina in Wrocław was the most modern plant of this type in Germany. Already in the twentieth century, sweets were also produced there, and there was also a distillery in the complex. Today, the names of the surrounding streets: Karmelkowa, Czekoladowa, Piernikowa and Cukrozetka remind us of the former power of the sugar factory.
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Von OTFW, Berlin - Selbst Fotografert, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikime...