House vine
House vine is the term used to plant a grapevine in front of a building wall . As a rule, this is the facade of a residential house or farm building . Today, the house vine is primarily used for greening and shading the wall. It is particularly widespread in areas where viticulture takes place.
Original function
Before aesthetic and climatic considerations came into play, a house vine primarily fulfilled another function: the vine with its deep roots effectively prevented the foundations and cellars from becoming damp . Especially with half-timbered houses with their building material mixtures of stone, clay, wood and straw threatened with continued waterlogging that at the affected walls saltpetre forms. Sometimes vines were even planted directly into the cellar floor and the vines pulled out through cellar windows to prevent cellar moisture at the same time.
maintenance
A house vine is a relatively undemanding plant. If possible, it needs a location that is protected from long term frost and gets by with little water and nutrients . All maintenance consists of pruning in late winter or early spring and tying the trimmed shoots to climbing aids . Wires stretched in front of the wall are suitable for this . House fronts facing south in particular can be attractively greened in this way .
sorts
In recent years, table grape varieties that are resistant to fungal diseases have established themselves as domestic vines , so that the use of fungicides can be dispensed with. These include, for example, the white Palatina variety or the red Muscat Bleu . If you don't want to harvest grapes, you can also use ornamental vines.
history
In the Palatinate , the oldest known house vine was planted around 1500 in the southern Palatinate village of Oberlustadt - today part of the Lustadt community . It belonged to the now almost extinct red variety of the goosefoot vine and developed an irregular trunk diameter of 60 to 120 cm over the course of four centuries. In the winter of the century in 1929, when even the Rhine froze over at persistently -20 ° C in January / February , it died. Her trunk is exhibited in the Palatinate History Museum in Speyer .
In Margreid on the South Tyrolean Wine Route you can find the oldest house grape in the province . It dates back to 1601 and still bears around 80 kg of fruit every autumn even in the 21st century.
Web links
- Problem- free domestic vines, at www.gartenbauvereine.de
- Green tendrils in the village. The house vine is both an ornamental and a useful plant , at www.lw-heute.de
- Wall division for house vines, on www.fassadengruen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ pruning. www.fassadengruen.de, accessed on March 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Domestic vine, the. (No longer available online.) Www.pfalz.de, archived from the original on March 27, 2018 ; accessed on March 26, 2018 . 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.
- ↑ Margreid. www.suedtiroler-weinstrasse.it, accessed on March 26, 2018 .
