Baack Spaten

Baack Spaten is a German manufacturer of hand-forged spades and garden tools based in Hohenlockstedt in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein. According to its own account, the workshop has been producing hand-forged spades in genuine German craftsmanship for more than 145 years, tracing its origins to 1878 and describing itself as a family tradition carried on across five generations. The company positions its tools as among the most durable and functionally strong of their kind, valued by gardeners, landscape contractors and professionals throughout Germany. The brand's product range is organised around different spade types suited to particular soils and applications. Named models include the Bremer Spaten (a lady's spade), the Holsteiner Rüffel (a gardener's spade), the Grabespaten Holstein (a digging spade), the Marschrüffel (a drainage spade) and the Eiderstedter Spaten (a civil-engineering spade with a foot tread). Each Baack spade is presented as a one-of-a-kind piece — robust, sustainable and built to last for decades — whether used in the garden, on a construction site or in daily professional work. The company emphasises a philosophy of making the highest-quality garden tools that clearly ease the user's work in every respect and are absolutely sustainable. Baack Spaten sells the majority of its products through trade partners, while also operating its own online shop offering a small, select range of its own products, service offerings and garden tools it has itself found convincing. The brand has received independent recognition: the test portal of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung tested twelve different spades and named the Baack Holsteiner Rüffel ET Tritt the test winner, praising it as hand-forged, robust and thought through down to the detail, with no other spade making the work go so easily. The company is a private, family-style craft business rather than a listed corporation, and its identity is closely tied to the "Made in Germany" claim and to the regional forging tradition of Schleswig-Holstein. Its public communication combines product information with editorial content, such as a magazine article on the history of the spade, reinforcing its positioning as a specialist heritage forge rather than a mass-market tool supplier.

Baack Spaten is a German spade and garden-tool forge based in Hohenlockstedt, in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Its origins are dated to 1878, and the company describes itself as a traditional forge that has been making hand-forged spades in genuine German craftsmanship for more than 145 years. In its own account, the workshop's philosophy has been passed down across five generations: producing the highest-quality garden tools that clearly ease the user's work in every respect and are absolutely sustainable. The brand's identity is rooted in the regional forging tradition of Schleswig-Holstein and in the "Made in Germany" claim. Rather than pursuing mass production, Baack Spaten presents each spade as a one-of-a-kind piece — robust, sustainable and made to last for decades — suited to use in the garden, on construction sites and in daily professional work. Over time the company developed a range of specialised spade types adapted to different soils and tasks, including the Bremer Spaten (a lady's spade), the Holsteiner Rüffel (a gardener's spade), the Grabespaten Holstein (a digging spade), the Marschrüffel (a drainage spade) and the Eiderstedter Spaten (a civil-engineering spade with a foot tread). In the present day, Baack Spaten distributes the majority of its products through trade partners while also operating its own online shop, which offers a small but select range of its own products, its service offerings and garden tools it has itself found convincing. The brand has also gained public recognition through independent product testing: the test portal of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung tested twelve different spades and named the Baack Holsteiner Rüffel ET Tritt the test winner, describing it as hand-forged, robust and thought through down to the detail, and stating that no other spade makes the work go so easily. The company also publishes editorial content, such as a magazine article on the history of the spade, reinforcing its positioning as a heritage craft forge and specialist in spades and garden tools.

• 2024

  The company publishes a magazine article on the history of the spade (dated 12 December 2024).

• 1878

  Baack Spaten is founded; the forge's origins are dated to this year.

• The workshop's craft tradition is carried on across five generations of the family.

• The Baack Holsteiner Rüffel ET Tritt is named test winner in a spade test by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung test portal.

Traditional German hand-forged spade and garden-tool specialist, emphasising craftsmanship, durability, sustainability and "Made in Germany" quality for gardeners and landscape professionals.

• Bremer Spaten (lady's spade)

  A spade model in the Baack range, described as a lady's spade.

• Holsteiner Rüffel (gardener's spade)

  A gardener's spade; the Baack Holsteiner Rüffel ET Tritt was named test winner by the FAZ test portal.

• Grabespaten Holstein (digging spade)

  A digging spade model in the Baack range.

• Marschrüffel (drainage spade)

  A drainage spade model in the Baack range.

• Eiderstedter Spaten (civil-engineering spade with foot tread)

  A civil-engineering spade with a foot tread, suited to heavier ground work.

1. 1Handgeschmiedete Spaten und Werkzeuge aus Deutschland - Baack Spatenbaackspaten.de
2. 2Die Geschichte des Spatens - Baack Spatenbaackspaten.de
3. 3Baack Spaten - Wikidatawikidata.org