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For over 175 years, all our products and brands have come from the same family of entrepreneurs:
Hauer/Leiningen/Lorenz/Schmid/Lehner
Leconte Chocolatiers was founded in 1994 in Vienna's Josefstadt district to bring together all the chocolate brands and products from 175 years of family tradition.
Against this backdrop, since 1850, our company has stood for innovative products of the highest quality, elegantly blending tradition with contemporary demands.
The story of the nougat marzipan ball and the gluten-free chocolate cake.
are the core of the Leconte Chocolatiers company and brand.
1900 - 1934
The 2nd Generation.
After Theresia Hauer's death in 1900, the company was successfully continued by her two daughters, Anna Lorenz in Vienna and Christine Countess of Leiningen in Munich.
1934 - 1960
The 3rd Generation.
Theresia Hauer's granddaughter Emilie Lorenz then took over and led the company through the difficult war and post-war years at its original location in Vienna-Josefstadt.
1960 -2003
The 4th Generation.
From 1960 onwards, Theresia Hauer's great-granddaughter Annemarie Lehner-Schmid continued to manage the affairs of the family business in the 4th generation.
1999
The brand
already registered for chocolate products in 1954
in 1999 gets expanded internationally and incorporated into our product range as a brand name, especially for
adopted in order to combine them with the traditional products of our house, where they historically originated in the mid-19th century, at that time as a nickname for the white cakes and balls.
In the following years, the brand blended perfectly with our tradition of white chocolate, especially with the gluten-free LIPIZZAN® CAKES and the LIPIZZAN® TRUFFLES.
In 2000, the LIPIZZAN® brand was internationalized for confectionery and other food & non-food products.
2003
The 5th Generation.
Since 2004, the Theresia Hauer and Lipizzaner brand areas have been managed in the 5th generation by Theresia Hauer's great-great-grandson, Wolfgang Robert Lehner.
2004
Founding of Lipizzanerkugel Produktions- & Vertriebs GmbH
Following the first factory sale at the production site,
with a wider range of quality food and non-food products, starting in 2004 with the branch
With the same product range as in 1875-1890, the LIPIZZAN® FLAGSHIP STOREwas reopened in 2005 in Vienna's city center at the same location, Stephansplatz 6, in the building of the Archbishop's Palace, with its facade and furnishings still preserved from 1890.
In 2012, this historic location, which Theresia Hauer had already operated as a patisserie & confectionery branch in 1875, and its architecture of the old Viennese facade & interior design dating from 1890, unfortunately fell completely victim to the radical renovations for integration into the Cathedral Museum of the Archdiocese of Vienna located behind it.
International presence.
Our presence at international trade fairs, especially food fairs, has brought our products to the global market since 1999.
2014
With the shop in the premises of the “Altes Cacao Comptoirs” at 1080 Vienna, Feldgasse 1, LIPIZZAN® JOSEFSTADT is being opened again, where our company history began in 1850.
2019
2020
170th Anniversary
Theresia Hauer Torte und Kugel, the oldest brand division of the LECON INDUSTRIES GROUP, celebrates
170 years of long-standing tradition.
2025
175 Years Anniversary
THERESIA HAUER CAKES® & -TRUFFLES
25 Years Anniversary
international Brand LIPIZZAN®.
THE TRIBUTE
Our well-known international brand products LIPIZZAN®CAKES & LIPIZZANER®TRUFFLES proudly bear the name of the inventor of their recipes in 1850 in Austria:
which spans the historical arc back to the beginnings of our history in 1850. The following is...
