Wombach exceeds record: Cooked the largest potato clay in the world!

Wombach exceeds record: Cooked the largest potato clay in the world!

Wombach, Deutschland - Wombach, a tranquil village in Bavaria, recently celebrated an extraordinary festival. On the occasion of its 700th anniversary, the community ventured an impressive attempt to record: cooking the largest potato clay in the world. The aim was to enter the Guinness Book of Records by exceeding the previous record of 365 kilograms, in 2010 in Jena in 2010. In fact, the ambitious destination was achieved on June 22, 2025 when an impressive closs with a weight of 464.8 kilograms was pulled out of the huge saucepan, which was specially hit from Bremen. [Merkur] (https://www.merkur.de/bayern/welkord-nach-nach-wombach- vortales-Spektakel-Holt-HHEINES-DARG-GLINE-93795296.HTML) reports that the preparation of the record dumplings brought together the villagers and guests and around 2,000 people participated in this festival.

The event was organized by Klaus Roth to draw more visitors to the celebrations, and preparations ran over a year and a half. A special saucepan that can hold 3,000 liters was procured to implement the enormous project. The diameter of the pot was 1.60 meters, and the height reached 2.5 meters - a real giant system for a giant fabric! The potato dumpling was cooked at 90 degrees in 2,500 liters of water for 21 hours. In order to efficiently process the amount of potatoes, a commercial dough manufacturer was hired after the original idea of peeling the potatoes themselves was rejected. Infranken added that a smaller dumpling was already prepared in a test phase, which is about half a meter measure.

a festival for the whole family

The festival became a real community event. The onlookers who flocked in droves were not only allowed to watch, but also actively participate in the consumption of the lump. The presence of around 2,000 people shows how the village of Wombach comes together to celebrate its traditions and at the same time set up new records. Of course, numerous ** delicacies ** were also served around the lump, which invited to the sociable get -together.

The commitment of the Wombacher and the impressive performance not only broke their own record, but also proven that community spirit and joy of innovation can go hand in hand. If you look at the preparations and the course of the record, you can only find out: Wombach has exceeded himself!

To learn more about the record attempt, interested parties can read this article on Spiegel. It becomes clear that such initiatives not only contribute to the preservation of regional cuisine, but also to strengthen community and identity.