Gröninger barrel
The Gröninger barrel , also known as the Halberstadt giant wine barrel , is an oversized barrel from the late 16th century that can be viewed today in the cellar of the Spiegelsberge hunting lodge in Halberstadt .
According to measurements from 2005, the barrel has a capacity of 140,000 to 145,000 liters, is 7.56 meters on the inside and between 8.33 and 8.48 meters on the outside. The diameter of the inner stave edges is 4.37 meters, the weight is given as 636.99 quintals.
Originally the barrel was possibly composed of 93 oak staves, today there are 92 - the visible reduction in size of the barrel could also be due to dry shrinkage.
history
The barrel for Gröningen Castle was built by the cooper Michael Werner from Landau, who three years earlier also made the first, no longer preserved, Heidelberg barrel . During the Renaissance and Baroque periods , such giant barrels were mainly objects of splendor and representation. It was commissioned by Heinrich Julius (1564–1613), Duke of Braunschweig and administrator of the Halberstadt diocese . It was finished in 1594. The costs, not including the wood, amounted to 6,000 thalers.
When the dilapidated Gröningen Castle was sold, demolished and the building materials sold in the late 18th century, Baron Ernst Ludwig Christoph von Spiegel had the barrel and some stone heraldic plaques brought to Halberstadt and set up in the basement of the hunting castle.
An entry in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest giant wine barrel in the world was made on June 6, 2008.
Web links
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- ↑ a b http://www.schmanck.de/Vermessung.doc
- ↑ Giant Wine Barrel
- ↑ http://www.schmanck.de/fotos/Fass5.jpg (picture of an information board on the barrel)
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 28.4 " N , 11 ° 2 ′ 33.3" E