Interesting Christmas Fact # 19 - Who stole the stollen?

Stollen, Germany's answer to Christmas cake, has always been associated with the city of Dresden. But according to the Spiegel the small town of Torgau, 75 kilometers northwest of Dresden, is now claiming it invented the cake 550 years ago, and it's launching its own Stollen to mark the occasion.

(Bread rolls at dawn methinks.)

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