Not bombs, but still powerful. Old German juniper gin bottles unearthed in Sulęcin

An unusal find unearthed in Sulęcin (Lubuskie Voivodeship). Construction of a sewage system in the area within the old city walls has been going on for some time now. The investment is quite large and is being carried out in a place of historical significance. The construction workers have already found a fragment of the old wall. Now, they return with another discovery.

On Monday (April 11), the crew was using an excavator when they came across a buried cellar of a no longer existing tenement house. Most likely, the building was demolished after the WWII. It turned out there was a nook in the cellar, in which someone had stocked bottles which had once contained juniper gin. Quite a lot of them - some 40-50 whole bottles and plenty of broken pieces.

"Unfortunately, all of them were empty and lacked original sealing. They only contained a bit of water which somehow got inside. The labels found on the bottles suggest that they most likely contained juniper gin produced in Steinhagen, near Wuppertal. It appears that the company still exists today," Hubert Augustyniak of Archeological Musuem in Świdnica, who is the archeological supervisor of the investment, told tvn24.pl.

What else is known about this liquor? "They received multiple awards at international contests. The information on the labels confirms this. One award was from the 19th century, whereas another one from 1910," Augustyniak added.

For the time being, the bottles will be placed in the museum's storeroom. They will undergo conservation and be secured. Who knows, maybe they will displayed at an exhibition one day. After the bottles were removed, the crew could continue building the sewage system.