Have you ever tasted real Mozart sweet chocolate balls? When you visit Salzburg, Austria you will never miss visiting the Furst cafe near the Mozart square. Of course you will say these are sweet delights in the form of balls in the red foil wrapper. The original Mozartkugeln sweets appeared in Salzburg when confectioner Paul Fuerst opened a small cafe in 13, Brodgasse, Salzburg . In 1890 Paul Fuerst created the now world famous Salzburger Mozartkugel. The original name of the candies was Mozartbonbon and later the name of the chocolate balls was changed into Mozartkugeln. He chose the name Mozartkugeln because of Mozart, a great son of Salzburg. And the quality and the fine taste of this new speciality, which brought the Mozartkugeln such a great success.
In 1905 Fuerst was awarded a gold medal for his productin in the Paris international exhibition.
The main ingredients of Mozartkugeln are pistachio marzipan, nougat and dark chocolate.
In the sixties of the last century several companies from Austria, Germany and Switzerland started copying the production of the chocolate balls which made Norbert Fuerst, the present owner, appeal to the European court. The Mirabell company of Salzburg produced ball sweets with the name Real Salzburg Mozartkugeln, a Swiss company produced same chocolate balls with the name of Original Austria Mozartkugeln and a Bavarian company copied the product with the name Real Reber Mozartkugeln. The decision of the European Commitee was the following: the Bavarian company Reber should produce the ball sweets with the name Genuine Reber Mozart-Kugeln (with a hyphen in-between). Only the original Fuerst company ball sweets could be of blue foil wrapper. The Mirabell Mozartkugeln company from Salzburg was authorized by the EC Commissioner in Brussels that the ball sweets are to be round. Other industrially produced Mozartkugeln sweets should have at least one side flat.

Norbert Fuerst still makes these fine chocolates today according to the old recipe and method handed over to him by his great grandfather. For this reason, this can truly be called original Salzburger Mozartkugel.
In 2006 artists designed 80 oversized polyester Mozartkugeln of 1,6 meter in diameter and placed them in the old town of Salzburg. In March of the same year vandals released one of these Mozartkugeln from Franziscanergasse where it had been bolted to the ground. Then the vandals rolled it onto the street causing damage of several thousand euros.
Cafe-Konditorei Fuerst, Salzburg http://www.pragensis.com/tours_in_prague