Old, long-established breed of goose from Bohemia, where it was a small table goose that thrived in the damp meadows. It laid plenty of eggs, starting early in the season, and produced a good crop of goslings. The breed was well known in the former East Germany and it was re-imported there in 1959, from whence it passed to West Germany and later to the UK in the 1990s. It was first included in the British Poultry Standards in 2008.