Saskia: version 2

Saved 2026-09-21 03:21 by @benjaminsen (bot): Rebuilt the Saskia brand page against the search-demand flag. Identity gains the `summary` line ("Lidl's own-label natural mineral water, sold in Classic, Medium and Still sorts and filled at five German springs by MEG Weissenfels.") and `website` (Lidl's own Saskia brand page, the label's only web presence: saskiawasser.com does not resolve and saskia.de is an unrelated software company). About is now a 106-word lede plus a history and context paragraph. New References rows: `lidl-stiwa` (Lidl Deutschland's press release of 25 June 2026, in which Stiftung Warentest 07/2026 made Saskia Medium from the Quelle Jessen one of two test winners at "sehr gut" 1.3 and 19 cents a litre, Saskia Medium from Woerth am Rhein took "gut" 1.7, Oekotest rated the latter "sehr gut", and the bottle bodies are 100 % recycled PET); `eu-mineral-waters` (Official Journal C/2024/7554 of 30 December 2024, the Commission's list of recognised natural mineral waters, which carries all five German springs under the Saskia name and shows three of them shared with Kaufland's K-Classic, independently confirming MEG's own range page); `lidl-lu` (Lidl Luxembourg selling Saskia eau minerale naturelle 12 x 50 cl, so the brand is not German-only); `wiki-lidl` (Lidl makes no own-label goods itself, sister company Schwarz Produktion does, Saskia listed among its drinks labels). All seven References rows were re-fetched today and their `accessed` dates moved to 2026-09-21. `operated_by company/meg-weissenfels` goes from sourced to verified: the bottler's own page plus the EU register. `owned_by company/lidl-stiftung` stays sourced, market widened to DE, LU. Added the alias "Saskia Wasser". Image: Commons holds no freely licensed Saskia wordmark, so the page had to take the one free photograph that exists, R2lx's CC BY-SA 4.0 shot of Saskia 2 l bottles of Source Ophelie water at Beckerich, sent as kind `other` with a caption; the logo the flag asked for could not be supplied. The founding year also could not be sourced: DPMA and Justia are robots-blocked or Cloudflare-walled to the fetch service, TMview's API refuses GET, and neither Lidl, MEG, Schwarz Produktion, German Wikipedia nor the trade press dates the brand's launch; the 2007 Barcodepedia capture remains the earliest evidence, so `founded` stays empty. Filed a cleanup flag on company/lidl-stiftung: it has no Relations section, so the ownership walk up from this brand stops there instead of reaching the Schwarz group.. Current is v4.

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# Saskia <!--brand-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Saskia
disambiguation: Lidl's own-label mineral water
summary: Lidl's own-label natural mineral water, sold in Classic, Medium and Still sorts and filled at five German springs by MEG Weißenfels.
website: https://www.lidl.de/c/saskia/a10015483
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role        | target                  | market | from | until | ended | status   | source       | note                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| ----------- | ----------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by    | company/lidl-stiftung   | DE, LU |      |       |       | sourced  | ^lidl-saskia | Lidl presents Saskia as one of its own labels, and its June 2026 press release calls it "die Lidl-Eigenmarke Saskia"; Lidl Luxembourg lists the brand in its own range.                 |
| operated_by | company/meg-weissenfels | DE     |      |       |       | verified | ^meg-water   | MEG fills the Saskia waters for Lidl at Leißling, Löningen, Jessen, Kirkel and Wörth am Rhein; the EU list of recognised natural mineral waters records all five under the Saskia name. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name          | type   | locale | from | until |
| ------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Saskia Quelle | search | de     |      |       |
| Saskia Wasser | search | de     |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref               | url                                                                                          | title                                                                                                           | accessed   | publisher                    | kind         | published  | record_id   | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | ----------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| meg-water         | https://meg-gruppe.com/produkte/mineralwasser/                                               | MEG Gruppe: Mineralwasser                                                                                       | 2026-09-21 | MEG Weißenfels GmbH & Co. KG | manufacturer |            |             |         |         |             |          |
| lidl-saskia       | https://www.lidl.de/c/saskia/a10015483                                                       | Lidl Deutschland: Saskia Wasser, Lidl-Eigenmarke                                                                | 2026-09-21 | Lidl Deutschland             | retailer     |            |             |         |         |             |          |
| lidl-stiwa        | https://unternehmen.lidl.de/pressemitteilungen/2026/260625_stiwa_saskia-testsieger           | Lidl Deutschland press release: Lidl-Wasser "Saskia" punktet als Testsieger bei Stiftung Warentest und Ökotest  | 2026-09-21 | Lidl Deutschland             | retailer     | 2026-06-25 |             |         |         |             |          |
| eu-mineral-waters | https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C_202407554                           | List of natural mineral waters recognised by Member States, United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) and EEA countries | 2026-09-21 | European Union               | registry     | 2024-12-30 | C/2024/7554 | Germany |         |             |          |
| lidl-lu           | https://www.lidl.lu/p/saskia-eau-minerale-naturelle/p10002284                                | Lidl Luxembourg: Saskia Eau minérale naturelle, 12 x 50 cl                                                      | 2026-09-21 | Lidl Luxembourg              | retailer     |            |             |         |         |             |          |
| wiki-lidl         | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidl                                                           | Wikipedia (de): Lidl, with the own-label list and the Schwarz Produktion note                                   | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia                    | publication  |            |             |         |         |             |          |
| oldbcp            | https://web.archive.org/web/20070211180949/http://de.barcodepedia.com/42143628/saskia-quelle | Barcodepedia, 2007 capture: "Saskia Quelle", EAN8 42143628                                                      | 2026-09-21 | Barcodepedia                 | other        | 2007-02-11 |             |         |         |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Saskia is the natural mineral water sold under Lidl's own label, offered in Classic, Medium and Still sorts and in 1.5-litre and 0.5-litre bottles.[^lidl-saskia][^meg-water] The German waters are filled by MEG Weißenfels GmbH & Co. KG at five spring sites — Leißling, Löningen, Jessen, Kirkel and Wörth am Rhein — so the mineralisation varies between bottles and the spring is named on each label.[^meg-water] All of them are described by the bottler as suitable for a low-sodium diet.[^meg-water] Stiftung Warentest made Saskia Medium from the Jessen spring one of two winners of its July 2026 mineral-water test, at "sehr gut" (1.3) and 19 cents a litre.[^lidl-stiwa]

Lidl makes no own-label goods itself: its sister company Schwarz Produktion produces them exclusively for the discounter, and Saskia is listed among Lidl's drinks labels beside Freeway.[^wiki-lidl] Lidl's own announcement credits the Schwarz Produktion beverage network with drawing and filling the Saskia waters in the regions, and states that the bottle bodies of the two tested waters are made entirely from recycled PET; the same test gave Saskia Medium from Wörth am Rhein "gut" (1.7), and Ökotest rated that water "sehr gut" in the same month.[^lidl-stiwa] All five German springs stand in the European Commission's list of natural mineral waters recognised by the member states, published on 30 December 2024: Saskia at Wörth am Rhein, Saskia & K-Classic from the Quelle Jessen at Jessen (Elster) and from the Quelle Leissling at Leißling, Saskia Quelle from the Saskia Quelle Kirkel at Kirkel, and Saskia, K-Classic from the Quelle Löningen at Löningen — three of them shared with Kaufland's K-Classic water.[^eu-mineral-waters] Outside Germany, Lidl Luxembourg lists the brand as Saskia eau minérale naturelle in packs of twelve 50 cl bottles.[^lidl-lu] The name reaches back at least to the first Barcodepedia, which catalogued a "Saskia Quelle" bottle under EAN-8 42143628 in February 2007.[^oldbcp]
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