Hattenheimer Pfaffenberg

Hattenheimer Pfaffenberg in autumn. After an unusually early night frost, the vine leaves turned brown wherever cold air could collect. In the higher and closer part of the vineyards on the right edge of the picture, the green foliage was better protected from the frost and was not damaged

The Hattenheimer Pfaffenberg is a 6 hectare Clos , i. H. an enclosed by a wall vineyard, directly on the domain Weingut Schloss Schönborn in the district Hattenheim in Eltville in the Rheingau area.

Vineyard

To the north, the Pfaffenberg is bordered and shielded by a long quarry stone wall along the road from Hattenheim to Oestrich , to the east it is protected by the village of Hattenheim and to the west by the buildings and the old trees of Schloss Reichartshausen , the seat of the EBS University for Economy and law . This sheltered location, together with the slope facing south towards the nearby Rhine , which has the greatest width and strongest sun reflection here, results in a special microclimate in the Pfaffenberg. The soil is deep with humus loam - loess soil . Due to this “special” location, flowering and ripening always take place around eight days earlier in Pfaffenberg than in the rest of the district.

This vineyard produces great and great wines, including Beerenauslese , Trockenbeerenauslese and Eisweine among many others . In general, the Riesling of the Pfaffenberg is characterized by a fragrant fruit (hints of peaches), earthy spiciness and a strong acidity .

Ownership

Since the 12th century, the vineyard and the Reichartshausen monastery yard belonging to it had been owned by the Eberbach monastery . Under Abbot Adolph Werner von Salmünster, today's wall was built around the Pfaffenberg from 1750. Parts of the vineyard have been owned by the Count of Schönborn since the 17th century . The first half was acquired on August 12, 1642, part in 1665 and the rest on August 22, 1817.

literature

• Dieter Braatz, Ulrich Sauter, Ingo Swoboda, Hendrik Holler: Wine Atlas Germany . 1st edition. Hallwag, Munich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0638-4 .
• Dagmar Söder: Rheingau-Taunus District I.1 Altkreis Rheingau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse , Theiss-Verlag , Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3806229875

Web links

Commons : Hattenheimer Pfaffenberg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The Hattenheim vineyards. Excerpt from the Rheingau wine region map from Dr. Hans Ambrosi, September 1991
• Exact location and outline
• View of Hattenheim on a section of a district map from 1750, 1750. Historical town views, plans and floor plans. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 46 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 18 ″  E