classic trademarks - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2015 - 68 Euro Cent

The history of the well-known Austrian soft drink dates back to the early 20th century, when a simple farmer from Leppersdorf in Upper Austria discovered a warm spring and used it not only as antifreeze for his mill, but also bathed in it. In the twenties the company "Spa Spas" merged, they drilled to a depth of 184 meters, built a bath house and made the salubrious water accessible to well-heeled guests. When the spring water gradually cooled and became less, a certain Otto Burger from Linz took up the idea of ​​adding fruit syrup to the water and selling it as a drink - this, of course, was the birth of the Schartner bomb, which owes its name to the original bottle shape. In a Leppersdorfer press house was filled from then on 600 bottles per hour and the Schartner bomb quickly became a great success, not even the economic crisis could harm.   After Burgers death, the so-called "Lichtenegger Nährmittel Werke" took over the business, which was sold a few years later to the "Schartner-Fein-GesmbH". Until 1975, the Schartner water was transported to Mühlgrub near Bad Hall for production, but finally the Haller mineral water was used to produce the lemonade. In 1969, as the popularity of the drink grew, the construction of a bottling line that, with an annual output of 40 million bottles, was the largest in the world, followed. However, this investment was one size too big - the Schartner bomb changed its owner several times in the following years, before the family business Starzinger from Frankenmarkt took over the business in the mid-nineties and has since been extremely successful.