Though it is unrelated to the German company which produces the Vorwerk vacuum cleaner, it is the only chicken to share its name with a brand of household appliance.

Beginning in 1900, poultry breeder Oskar Vorwerk began to create a medium-sized, utilitarian fowl with the belted plumage pattern of the Lakenvelder.

The key difference in appearance would be the Vorwerk's dark golden base color, rather than the white of the Lakenvelder.

[3] In 1966, a U.S. man named Wilmar Vorwerk of New Ulm, Minnesota, developed an interest in the breed, but it had not been exported to North America.

Large Vorwerk hens are good layers of cream-colored eggs, and will produce approximately 170 in a year.