Hattenheimer Mannberg

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Güterstein with the coat of arms of the Langwerth von Simmern family
Memorial stone in Hattenheimer Mannberg on the occasion of Heinrich Langwerth von Simmern's golden wedding in 1911.

The Hattenheimer Mannberg (originally Mannwerk ) is a south-facing vineyard at the eastern exit of Hattenheim in the Rheingau , directly on the old main road. Its size covers 6.1 hectares, the slope is 8-12 degrees. The Mannberg borders in the north on the Hattenheimer locations Nussbrunnen and Wisselbrunnen and in the east on the Erbacher Marcobrunn .

Name origin

The old name Mannwerk means , on the one hand, a surface area of ​​different sizes, which is measured according to the work performance of a man (possibly with the help of draft animals) on a day depending on the nature of the soil and the type of work (plowing, digging , mowing). However, the Hattenheimer Mannwerk with its area of ​​32 ½ acres is far too large to fit this definition. According to a different opinion, Mannwerke are cooperatives of landlord interest farmers in viticulture. The name Mannwerk was then also transferred to the vineyards managed by such cooperatives. In the 19th century, the name Mannberg gradually appeared for the Hattenheim vineyard . The inscription on a memorial stone from 1911 on the occasion of the golden wedding of Baron Heinrich Langwerth von Simmern suggests that the Hattenheimer Mannwerk not only managed the Mannberg site , but also the Nussbrunn (en) and Marcobrunn sites .

history

Initially, the vineyard, which originally bordered on the Rhine in the south, was loaned to the Cämmerer zu Worms . In 1393 Diether, Cämmerer zu Worms, leased all goods, including the Mannwerk vineyard, to the early knife in Hattenheim, Johannes von Speyer, for five years. The yield of the vineyard was estimated at 7  loads of wine annually. Adam Cämmerer died childless on December 18, 1463 as the last of the Cämmerer ranks.

The Cämmerer Worms farmed the vineyard not in self-management, rather than so-called third Vineyard : One-third of the gross income needed in the form of payments in kind as ground rent to be paid, which entered grapes were in three handmade paper distributed, of which the lord chose one of its own.

On January 22nd or 27th, 1464, Duke Ludwig I of Pfalz-Zweibrücken enfeoffed his chancellor Johann Langwerth von Simmern, his male heirs and, in the event that he should not have male heirs, his daughter with the husbandry as a male fief . From then on, the vineyard was considered the most valuable possession of the Langwerth von Simmern family .

Until 1636, of the 32 ½ acres of the Mannwerk, only 6 ½ acres were cultivated by the Langwerth von Simmern family. The remaining 25 acres were owned in 50 pieces as third vineyards . Thanks to the skilful action of the family, the number of one third of the vineyards was reduced from 50 to 39 by 1653, and the number of self-cultivated vineyards increased from 7½ to 14.

For the construction of the route of the Nassau Rhine Railway , which was opened in 1856, 3 ½ acres of the Mannberg were expropriated by the Nassau Rhine Railway Company and the vineyard was cut through by the railway. The loss could be compensated for by acquisitions by Heinrich Langwerth von Simmern.

Until 1868, parts of the Mannberg were given to the winery as a fief.

Vineyard

Rieslings of the highest quality grow in the Mannberg on deep, calcareous loess soil . The wines are full-bodied and spicy with a complex fruit component that is often reminiscent of quince .

owner

Most of the Mannberg was owned by the Langwerth von Simmern winery from Eltville for centuries and was also known as the "Langwerther Urlage". In 2018, part of the Rheingau vineyard area, including parts belonging to the Mannberg location, was leased to other wineries. The remaining part belongs to the Hessian state wine estates .

Web links

Commons : Hattenheimer Mannberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dieter Braatz, Ulrich Sauter, Ingo Swoboda, Hendrik Holler: Weinatlas Germany. 1st edition. Hallwag, Munich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0638-4
  2. ↑ Mannwerk . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 9 , issue 1/2 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1992, ISBN 3-7400-0167-4 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  3. ↑ a b c Werner Kratz: Hattenheim - architectural monuments and history - The Langerth of Simmern. Hattenheim.de
  4. ^ Werner Kratz: Hattenheim - architectural monuments and history - the viticulture . Hattenheim.de
  5. ↑ a b Valentin Statzner: Hattenheim - History of a Wine Village from 954–2000 ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 9.3 MB) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hattenheim.de
  6. ^ Heinrich Langwerth von Simmern: Family history of the barons Langwert von Simmern . C. Küster, Hanover 1909
  7. ^ Langwerth von Simmern Archive of the castles and manors in the Holy Roman Empire

Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 3.8 ″  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 14 ″  E