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fizzy.bleach
Ah, sorry, I didn't realise that that was what you stumbled over. There is no epenthic schwa in the German name. It's exactly the same sequence of consonants as in 'Cockney' and 'Hackney'. The only difference is in stress ('cock' and 'hack' being the stressed syllables). I can well imagine that the lack of a difference in stress within the initial kn- may make it more difficult for certain speakers to produce the initial kn- as opposed to -kn-, e.g. native English speakers, but German speakers are used to this.