Princely barrel
The Fürstenfass in Pfedelbach was built in 1752 and is the attraction of the local wine museum.
description
The builder was the princely court cooperator Michael Mayer. A curiosity is the wood-carved Bacchus figure that functions as a barrel bar. On the coat of arms the barrel bears the inscription Joseph Fürst zu Hohenloe und Waldenburg Pfedelbach. 1752 . It has a clear diameter of 4 m. The circumference is 15.5 m, the total length 5.2 m. It has 16 oak ribbons and is supported by a powerful support. The barrel, the fourth largest in southern Germany, holds 220 buckets from Württemberg , that is 64,664 l. It was last in the years 1811, 1819 and 1822 with the delivery of the wine tenth full.
Cellar construction
In 1604 the cellar was built, an elongated half-timbered building on Baierbacher Strasse in Pfedelbach. The mansion cellar under the building is 70 m long, 12 m wide and large enough to store several hundred thousand liters of wine. During the Second World War, a department of the NSU engine works from Neckarsulm was to be relocated to the basement. For this reason, the basement has been concreted except for the rear seventh, which is wider and higher and in which the princely barrel is located. Today the Lange Bau , as the building is popularly known, is home to the wine museum. The building itself was extensively renovated in 2007/2008.
Viticulture
Viticulture has been documented in Pfedelbach since 1357 . Viticulture has been practiced in the area since Roman times . Eight wine presses once stood between Öhringen and Pfedelbach. They were called Pfaffenkelter, Meisenkelter or Juniper Press, most of which have disappeared, but wine presses still remind of them and a hiking trail that connects the old sites. In the Heuholz district of Pfedelbach there is one of the oldest surviving rulers in northern Württemberg. The Fürstlich-Hohenlohische Herrschaftskelter was created in 1740 as a communal wine press of the Princely Houses of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg and Hohenlohe-Öhringen. The column-free roof construction over an area of 15 by 18 meters was a master carpentry achievement. Today the wine press is owned by a private person and was extensively renovated in 1990. Around 785 wine growers are organized in two winegrowing cooperatives, the Hohenlohe eG winery and the Heuholz eG winegrowing cooperative. They produce around 5.7 million liters of wine annually on an area of around 460 hectares. The Weingärtnergenossenschaft Heuholz e. G. merged with the Hohenlohe eG winery in 2016. In addition, there are some tenants who market their products themselves and in wine bars or Besenwirtschaften offer.
In 1950, the Hohenlohe winery was founded by 14 winemakers in the historic Fürstenfass cellar. The Hohenlohe winery calls its wines Fürstenfass wines. Today 450 wine growers from 16 traditional wine-growing locations cultivate their grapes for Fürstenfass wines.
The Princely Barrel in 1898
Long building with a viticulture museum
The viticulture museum
The large barrel in the princely cellar, description from 1822
The Hohenloher coat of arms
Information board for the Kelterrunde (hiking trail)
literature
- Gerhard Taddey (Red.): Pfedelbach 1037–1987. From past and present (= research from Württembergisch-Franken. Vol. 30). Published by the Pfedelbach community. Thorbecke et al., Sigmaringen et al. 1987, ISBN 3-921429-30-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ PDF (accessed May 23, 2010)
- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 3, 2011
- ^ Website of the Hohenlohe winery ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed May 13, 2010)
