Grünberger sparkling wine

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Grünberger Sekt was a German sparkling wine . It was produced from 1826 to 1944 in Grünberg in Silesia , today's Polish Zielona Góra .

Manufacturing

The sparkling wine was produced using the champagne method from the grapes of the "Black Clevner", a black burgundy , in one of the northernmost wine-growing regions in Europe.

history

The three entrepreneurs Friedrich August Grempler, Karl Samuel Häusler and Friedrich Gottlob Förster started the production of sparkling wine in Grünberg in 1826. Part of the production from the Silesian wine-growing region was initially sold under incorrect labeling as French champagne. In 1828 one of the three partners founded his own company, Grempler & Co. AG, the oldest German sparkling wine cellar . In 1826, the Kessler sparkling wine cellar was founded in Esslingen am Neckar . However, this did not appeal against the Grünberger's claim to lead the oldest.

In order to compete with the established French competition, some of the Grünberger varieties were given French names, e.g. B. Epernay and Versenay . At the world exhibitions in Paris in 1855 , London in 1862 and Vienna in 1873 , Gremplers Sektkellerei was awarded medals. Grünberger Sekt became one of the most famous brands in regional gastronomy .

The Silesian sparkling wine producers benefited from the French embargo imposed at the beginning of the 1920s , which also included the export of champagne to the German Empire . Grünberger Sekt found its permanent place on the wine lists in Berlin in the Roaring Twenties . During the time of National Socialism , when the consumption of French products was politically inopportune, production was increased further. In the last pre-war year, 1938, it amounted to 800,000 bottles. Due to the war, production was stopped in 1944. The Polish administration, which was set up in Silesia in the spring of 1945, did not allow them to resume.

literature

  • Ernst Clauss: Book of the city of Grünberg in Silesia. Fruit and vine city of the German east. Revised and supplemented the city stories by August Förster and Hugo Schmidt. 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nikos-weinwelten.de/fileadmin/Falstaff/fD0212_Polen.pdf
  2. ↑ Werner Ribbeck: Grünberg in Silesia, the northernmost wine-growing town on earth: then and now. Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1929, p. III.
  3. ↑ Arielle Kohlschmidt: Weinbau in der Niederlausitz ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Cottbus 2004, p. 24. ISBN 978-3-939656-22-7 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neisse-nysa-nisa.de
  4. ↑ Andrzej Toczewski: Zielonogórskie Winobrania / The Gruenberger vintages . Muzeum Ziemi Lubuskiej, Zielona Góra 2006. ISBN 83-88426-29-X .
  5. ^ The menu of the Silesians (PDF; 1.6 MB), in: Groß Wartenberger Heimatblatt, 11.1961, p. 3.
  6. ↑ On the move in the poorest region of Poland, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 30, 2004, p. 23.
  7. ^ New Germany , September 4, 2010.
  8. ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau , September 13, 2008, p. 12.