The bundt may have originated from the German "bundkuchen" (sometimes called "kugelhopf" or "Gugelhupf"), a ring-shaped coffee cake.
The bundt may have originated from the German Gugelhupf, a ring shaped cake. They were interested in a pan that could be used to make bundkuchen (sometimes called kugelhopf or Gugelhupf), a popular German and Austrian coffee cake.