More than just the salty kind.

This is a martinsbretzel. Unlike your regular laugenbretzel, it's coated in sugar. According to "More than Beer and Schnitzel," it's found "in mostly Catholic regions like Upper Franconia and Rhineland" because it's associated with the Feast of Saint Martin of Tours.

Which squares with where I got it from -- near the train station here in Wiesbaden.