Forster monster

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Forster Ungeheuer is the name of a 40-hectare vineyard in the Palatinate wine-growing community of Forst an der Weinstrasse ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), which is exclusively planted with Riesling. The location is classified by the VDP as a "Great Location", the dry wines of the location can be marketed by VDP members as a large plant if the appropriate criteria are met.

geography

location

The single location extends west of the residential development of the community to the eastern slope of the Haardt . It belongs as part of the major site Forster Mariengarten the area Mittelhaardt- German Wine Route of the wine-growing region Palatinate .

climate

The hillside at 120 to 150  m above sea level. On frosty spring nights, NHN Höhe favors the runoff of cold air masses to the Rhine plain , so that the risk of frostbite on the young shoots of the vines is largely excluded.

geology

As a result of the rift between the Haardt Mountains and the Rhine Plain, basalt emerged in the fracture zone around 30 million years ago . This can be found in the Forst area as dark igneous rock , particularly strong on the Pechsteinkopf to the west above the community. The weathered basalt in the soil, with its ability to store solar heat for the night, is responsible for the high quality of Forster wines. Additional deposits of lime allow wines with ripe, soft acid to thrive.

Surname

origin

The name "Forster Ungeheuer" is traced back to a clerk in the neighboring small town of Deidesheim , whose name was Johann Adam Ungeheuer and who died in 1699. A tomb with his name is at the old Johanneskirche in nearby Mußbach .

Quotes

"I really like this monster."

- Reich Chancellor Prince Otto von Bismarck at the end of the 1880s as a guest in Deidesheim with the Vice President of the Reichstag , the winery owner Franz Armand Buhl

" Forster monster
If you feel good once in your life
and if nothing is too expensive for you,
then, dear friend,
drink Forster monster with good courage !

But you are miserable
in this world of walls,
then, dear friend, and then even more
drink Forster monsters! "

- Emil Helfferich (1878–1972), wholesale merchant from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse

Other "Forster monsters"

gastronomy

The local restaurant Zum Forster Ungeheuer advertises that Napoleon dined in what is now the “Napoleon room” of the house in the late summer of 1805, when he was traveling through the Palatinate on his way to Austerlitz .

Sculptures

At the northern entrance to the village is the northern monster , a stone sculpture by master stone sculptor Janet Weisbrodt from nearby Niederkirchen . The counterpart to this is the southern monster at the opposite entrance to the village , which was created by master stone sculptor Bettina Morio from Deidesheim.

  • The northern monster

  • The southern monster

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Search for vineyards. weinlagen-info.de, accessed on July 23, 2017 .
  2. ^ Note in the Museum of Wine Culture , Deidesheim.
  3. ↑ Quoted from: Emil Helfferich: Ein Leben . tape III . Publisher Hans Dulk, Hamburg 1948.

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 28 ″  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  E