Johann Seger Ruland

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Johann Seger Ruland (* 1683 in Niedererlenbach ; † 1745 in Speyer ; also Johann Seeger Ruland ) was a German merchant and pharmacist and propagated the Pinot Gris grape variety in Germany , which is also called Ruländer after him .

Life

Ruland came from the Frankfurt am Main area . In 1705 he married Anna Maria Stegmann, a daughter of the Speyer mayor Sigmund Heinrich Stegmann.

In 1709 he bought the garden of the school rector and assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice Johann Heinrich Seuffert (1650–1722) , which was located in Streichergasse zu Speyer and had been overgrown since the city was destroyed in the War of the Palatinate Succession (1689 ). In 1711 he pressed the grapes for the first time from two vines found there of an unknown grape variety. The wine was so " sweet and lovely " that it multiplied the vines and sold the " hundred for 8 to 10 guilders ". This started the spread of the Pinot Gris ( French Pinot gris ) as Ruländer , also Speyer or Vinum bonum in Germany. About his meeting with the winemaker Jacob Weidle that the Pinot Gris in his home Gerlingen wanted to grow, has developed into Speyer a folk tale preserved.

The Speyer painter Johannes Ruland (1744–1830) was his grandson, the lithographer Johann Gerhard Ruland (1785–1854) his great-grandson.

The legend of the merchant Ruland and the devil's winemaker

This from Speyer Dating Sage is the merchant Ruland, which with the increase of his Ruländer made vines shops and one day visit from Jacob Weidle , a winemaker from Gerlingen receives. Weidle that during the Turkish Wars "The Fuaderer" had earned by special cruelty the nickname and through a deal with the devil to an enchanted Songbird, a Zilpzalp had reached, demands from Ruland the publication of his vine. When the latter refuses, the winemaker Weidle uses the skills of the chiffchaff to steal all the grapes from Ruland in order to cultivate the previously unknown Pinot Gris on his own vineyards and to achieve wealth.

Honor

Since April 2013, he has been honored with a base plate at the German Wine Gate for his discovery of the Ruländer wine .

literature

  • Georg Litzel : Historical news of the Rhine wine. Von dem Speirer and Rulandswein , Speier, 1758
  • Fritz Klotz: The wine was sweet and lovely ... Johann Seger Ruland - A story about a vine , Die Rheinpfalz from August 4th 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Wine Walk of Fame is growing. (No longer available online.) Winzergenossenschaft Deutsches Weintor , April 25, 2013, archived from the original on September 7, 2013 ; Retrieved July 6, 2013 . 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.weintor.de
  2. ^ Genealogical page on Johann Heinrich Seuffert
  3. ↑ a b "How the Pinot Gris came to Württemberg" - a legend . haben.at Forum, March 7, 2018
  4. ^ Fritz Klotz: Speyer: Small town history , Historischer Verein der Pfalz, Speyer district group, Pilger-Druckerei, Speyer, 1971, p. 136
personal data
SURNAME Ruland, Johann Seger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruland, Johann Seeger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, pharmacist, winegrower
DATE OF BIRTH 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH Niedererlenbach
DATE OF DEATH 1745
Place of death Speyer