Queen Viktoriaberg

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View from the east over the vineyards to the town of Hochheim am Main. On the far left in the picture the tracks of the Taunus Railway, next to it the Königin-Viktoria-Berg with the monument

The Queen Viktoriaberg is a Rheingau vineyard in the area of ​​the city of Hochheim am Main . It is solely owned by the Joachim Flick winery . The site is part of the large Daubhaus site in the Rheingau wine-growing region . According to wine law, the spelling Hochheimer Königin Viktoriaberg is intended.

Origin of name and history

Before this area was used for viticulture, the deans of the cathedral chapter of Mainz, who were wealthy in Hochheim, liked to stay near the idyllic spring . Therefore this place was known as the "dean's rest". It is also known about this place that Elector Emmerich Josef “liked to end his hunting trips in this inviting place”.

In 1845 Queen Victoria was on a trip to the Rhine with her German husband Prince Albert . As a lover of Hochheimer wines, she took the opportunity on August 15, 1845 for a short visit to the vineyard of the winemaker Georg Michael Pabstmann at the Dechantenruhe , which was considered one of the best in the Hochheimer district. Pabstmann had bought vineyards in Hochheim between 1835 and 1845. In the area of ​​today's Queen Victoria Mountain , these were the former vineyards in Im Kaltenberg (west of the monument) and Gehitz (east of the monument), the former path on which the monument stands today, and the former meadow south of the railway line. He had the meadow, which also belonged to the Kaltenberg corridor , replanted. In the area of ​​the Kaltenberg, considerable amounts of earth were heaped up as a result of the construction of the railway line, which fell from the area between the former Kohlkaut location and the sand road. The former term Dechantenruhe , already used in contemporary descriptions, does not appear in Pabstmann's list of goods.

In 1850 the Pope asked the Queen to “give the vineyard her high name” - to be allowed to name it after her. In the same year, on December 5, 1850, the Queen had "the grace" to grant the vineyard this "gracious award". Three years later, the Nassau authorities approved the renaming. Pabstmann then had the Queen Victoria Memorial erected in the vineyard , which was inaugurated on May 24, 1854, the Queen's 35th birthday. In 1857 Queen Victoriaberg was registered as a special vineyard location in the Hochheim land register.

Vineyard

The vineyard is bordered by Hell both to the east and west , the Hochheimer Stein vineyard to the north and the Main to the south .

Like all Hochheimer vineyards, the vineyards of Queen Viktoriaberg cover parts of the approximately 35-meter-high step above the Lower Main Plain on the southern edge of the Main-Taunus foreland . Located south-east of Hochheim's old town, the Queen Viktoriaberg accompanies the banks of the Main for a distance of around 650 m and stretches up to the sandy path at a width of almost 100 m and a slope that is quite large for Hochheimer conditions . With 5 hectares, it is the smallest single vineyard in Hochheim. Except for a few Chardonnay vines, it is completely planted with Riesling . In the west and east the vineyard area is Hell and in the north the single vineyard area is stone . Queen Viktoriaberg is crossed lengthways by the line of the Taunus Railway . The vineyard is completely south-facing.

Due to the location at the foot of the step, the vineyards are protected from cold north winds , and the proximity to the Main creates an optimal microclimate for viticulture , namely the formation of cold air lakes in spring or autumn is hindered. The soil is sandy to gravel and consists of loess loam and tertiary sediments interspersed with tertiary marls.

A horizon of springs emerges on Queen Viktoriaberg . It is created by sliding water that flows underground from the Taunus foreland to the Main. The water was taken as a source and used to feed a fountain bowl on the south side of the Queen Victoria Monument .

United Kingdom coat of arms used by Queen Victoria

Queen Victoriaberg Winery

The Queen Victoriaberg winery has the status of a supplier to the British court thanks to permission to use the royal British coat of arms. Therefore, the name of this winery has always been kept despite several changes of ownership. Until 1917 it belonged to the Pabstmann winery in Hochheim. From there it was bought into the possession of the J. Neus winery in Ober-Ingelheim . In 1973 the Hupfeld winery in Hattenheim was married. Since 2010 it has been managed by the Flick winery in the neighboring village of Wicker in Hochheim .

The coat of arms is located above the depiction of the thanksgiving on the old-fashioned labels of the wines from this location. The bottom of the Victoria barrel has also been preserved. In this 1000 liter barrel, that part of the wine from this location that was delivered to Queen Victoria's court was matured every year. Even today, deliveries are made to the British Crown on numerous occasions.

Due to the change of ownership and foreign owners, there were several winery buildings. The original Pabstmann building is on Wintergasse, at the corner of Rathausstrasse. It moved to the Frankfurter Straße to the location of today's bicycle shop and from there to the Hochheimer Südstadt in the Rheinstraße, corner of Mainweg. Today the wines are produced in Wicker.

literature

  • German-English relations around the "hock" and the Hochheimer Königin-Victoria-Berg, Dr. Wilhelm Velten in Hochheimer Spiegel No. 2, 1988

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regional Council Darmstadt: Information sheet on geographical information on Hessian vineyards ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file, 37.5 kB)
  2. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau of December 8, 2010: Riesling for the Queen
  3. ↑ Homepage Weingut Königin Victoriaberg ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

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Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 11.2 "  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 35"  E