I agree Dom, Cohline has great products. They have been the leading supplier to many of the German automotive manufacturers for ages.
Much like most major companies today, Cohline now has production factories throughout the world (Germany, UK, USA, Czech Republic, Romania). This was my point about the ContiTech (CRP) products; depending on where the specific item is actually made, the quality may vary a lot. And CRP has plants in many more countries than Cohline.
Large corporations make different levels of their products to meet the requirements of different markets. Some parts of the world need lower cost supplies, so the manufacturers make lower level lines to match. Unfortunately those products find their way into other markets. The greed for profit has led suppliers, distributors, warehouses, jobbers, retailers, to get the lowest price source they can find and sell it at the higher market price levels. In many cases the products have the same name, model, part number, and other identification on it regardless where it is manufactured. Even if you find the source of the item printed on the box, that does not necessarily mean that's where it was actually made - many countries have laws that allow products to be labeled as "made in where ever" despite coming from elsewhere. So you really cannot tell what you have, the better quality product from one country or the lower quality from another. And sadly the price you paid tells you nothing, just too many unethical sellers out there. Even car dealerships and other "OEM" sources are doing this, so the source you purchase from does not really mean much either. In the defense of retailers, they are very unlikely to know exactly where the parts they sell were actually made.
And if all of this wasn't enough, there is a HUGE problem with counterfeit parts flooding the markets. Reports exist of major parts manufacturers finding counterfeit merchandise in their own inventory. And in some cases they were hard pressed to tell the difference by appearance.
Dom, in your case being in Germany, it is most likely you got the German made Cohline hose...especially since it came from a old parts house. And it will be great stuff. However others may not get the same hose you did unfortunately - despite what's printed on it. This is what has happened to the CRP/Continental hoses; there is no way to know what we are getting, and they are not all created equal.