Marienbader Wafers in Eger - the best traditional baked wafers

Thursday, 19 June 2025 00:00
Written by Portal Editor

Marienbader Wafers - During our visit to Cheb's pedestrian zone, formerly known as Eger, we also met the small shop of the so-called Kolonada Oblaten, the traditionally baked round wafers with chocolate filling.

In the meantime, Kolonada wafers have been produced in Marienbad since 1856, today called Mariánské Lázně.

Marienbader Wafers - the souvenir from the spa

Mariánské Lázně (Marienbad) is probably the best-known spa in the Czech Republic, so the Marienbader Wafers became so popular with spa guests from all over the world that they took them home as souvenirs from the spa.

In the course of time, different varieties of sweet pastries have become more and more popular, especially those with chocolate filling or as a dark cocoa waffle.

The wafers of the original Marienbader Oblaten are baked from a wheat flour dough between hot iron and filled later on.

The well-known manufacturer company Opavia was founded in 1840 by Theodor Fiedor in the town of same name.

Together with his wife Amalie he baked Marienbader Wafers with waffle iron on the open fire and then sold them. It was not until 1880 that the son Theodor began industrial production.

From this time, the wafers were produced in ovens by different bakeries.

The premature death of Theodor Fiedor jeopardized family ownership, but his wife Maria continued the company and increased the production capacity.

Simple ingredients and preparation of the wafers

The predecessors of spa wafers are the hosts. Since the Middle Ages, these were baked over an open fire in tong-like metal molds called waffle or wafer irons. Later, these wafer irons also began to be used to bake Marienbader wafers or round wafers.

The ingredients of the Marienbader Wafers are: wheat flour, sugar, fully hydrated palm kernel fat, vegetable oil and fat (palm, rape), lactose (milk) chocolate 7% (cocoa powder with reduced fat cocoa mass, sugar).

Allergens: Eggs and products thereof gluten-containing cereals, milk and milk products (including lactose), soya and soya products, nuts and products derived there from.

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