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Bavaria's best butcher shops 2025: These ten businesses set standards!
On June 17, 2025, the best butcher shops in Bavaria were honored in Munich, including the Boneberger butcher shop from Schongau.
Bavaria's best butcher shops 2025: These ten businesses set standards!
You can rely on the butcher shops in Bavaria - and this was also confirmed at the recent award ceremony in the Max Joseph Hall of the Munich Residence. On June 4, 2025, the Bavarian Food Minister Michaela Kaniber awarded the award for the 13th time Bavarian State Honorary Award for the butcher trade to the ten best companies in the state. The event not only had a festive character, but also underlined the important role of butchers in local supply and regional value creation in Bavaria.
With an impressive 2,549 butcher shops, Bavaria has the most in Germany. There are also around 1,600 slaughterhouses approved under EU law, which ensure that Bavarian consumers are supplied with high-quality meat and sausage products. In her speech, Minister Kaniber emphasized the importance of butchers for nationwide local supply and emphasized training young people in the trade as the key to the future.
The award winners in detail
This year, a total of 188 companies and five vocational schools were nominated for the award. The ten winners for 2025 are:
| Place | Butcher shop | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Small butcher shop | Nersingen-Straß, Neu-Ulm district |
| 2. | Butcher Boneberger GmbH | Schongau, Weilheim-Schongau district |
| 3. | Butchery Heindl GmbH | Untergriesbach, Passau district |
| 4. | Gierstofer KG butcher shop | Pfatter, Regensburg district |
| 5. | Max Gruber butcher shop | Spalt-Großweingarten, Roth district |
| 6. | Butcher & Party Service Hirsch GmbH | Ursensollen-Hohenkemnath, Amberg-Sulzbach district |
| 7. | Faber Feinkost GmbH & Co. KG | Bad Kissingen, Bad Kissingen district |
| 8. | Butcher Karl Schuster e. K | Wiggensbach/Ermengerst, Oberallgäu district |
| 9. | Butchery Kürmeier GbR | Brannenburg, Rosenheim district |
| 10. | Metzgerei Stuhlberger GmbH | Wartenberg, Erding district |
Particularly noteworthy are the awards for the two vocational schools: the Franz Oberthür School in Würzburg and the municipal vocational school for the butcher trade in Munich. Both schools received special awards for their valuable support of young professionals in the butcher trade.
A look into the future
The Bavarian butchers not only stand for tradition, they also look to the future. Back in March, the “German National Butchers’ Team”, consisting largely of Bavarian butchers, celebrated becoming runner-up in the world championships in Paris. These successes show that the craft is not only popular locally but also internationally.
In order to further support the industry, several investment support programs such as “Market Structure Support” and VuVregio have already been improved. In the last funding period, impressive results were achieved16 million euros for the meat sectorapproved. These are important steps to keep the butcher shops in Bavaria strong and competitive in the future. With a good knack for tradition and modernity, the butcher trade in Bavaria is ideally positioned.