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Golden times for Palatinate beekeepers: 2025 honey harvest is exciting!
Beekeepers in Southwest Palatinate celebrate successes at the 2025 honey awards: 32 gold and numerous medals for excellent products.
Golden times for Palatinate beekeepers: 2025 honey harvest is exciting!
After a dry summer, the 2025 honey harvest in Southwest Palatinate caused positive surprises. The Palatinate bees have produced high-quality honey, which is also reflected in the numerous awards. In Neustadt, numerous chamber prize coins were awarded for award-winning honeys at a celebratory ceremony. Arnold Dilger from the Gräfensteiner Land beekeeping association is pleased with the success of beekeepers in the region who have a good hand with their bees. The dry weather this year was cited as a positive basis for the excellent honey products.
Intensive attention was paid to a total of 81 honeys from the region. 32 gold, 25 silver and 5 bronze medals were awarded. Particularly noteworthy are the successful varieties such as acacia, summer honey and forest blossom honey. Eight gold and just as many silver medals went to honey from the Southwest Palatinate, which once again underlines the high quality of the local products. Anna Schwab from Albersweiler was recognized for having the best honey quality in all of Rhineland-Palatinate and received a gold medal for this.
Honey Harvest Prize Winner
The list of winners in this year's competition is impressive and shows the diversity of honey producing companies in the region:
- Ewald Hüther (Stambach): 2 Gold-, 1 Silbermedaille
- Anna Schwab (Albersweiler): 1 Gold-, 1 Silbermedaille
- Karl-Heinz Heinrich (Fehrbach): 1 Gold-, 1 Silbermedaille
- Josef Zimmer senior (Dahn): 1 Silbermedaille
- Josef Zimmer junior: 3 Silbermedaillen
- Paul Frank (Fischbach): 2 Goldmedaillen
- Thomas Andreas (Hilst): 1 Silbermedaille
- Arnold Dilger (Rodalben): 3 Goldmedaillen
A very special guest of honor at this competition was Josef Zimmer, who at 88 is not only the oldest but also the longest-serving beekeeper in the region. The passionate beekeeper received his first colony of bees on April 18, 1959.
Commitment to the community
In a remarkable step, the Rhineland-Palatinate Beekeepers Association also donated 12 jars of honey to the “Haus Magdalena” hospice in Pirmasens and another 12 jars to the “Seliger Bernhard” daycare center in Rodalben. This not only honors the high quality of the honey, but also the social commitment of the beekeepers in the region.
As summer draws to a close and ambitious beekeepers celebrate their harvest, one can only hope that the coming years will be just as productive and nature-friendly. After all, good business not only brings joy to beekeepers, but also delights local gourmet lovers.