Kiedricher Graefenberg

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The Graefenberg in the municipality of Kiedrich

The Graefenberg is a vineyard northeast of Kiedrich in the Rheingau . It belongs to the major Heiligenstock area .

Name origin

The name, already mentioned at the end of the 12th century as Mons Rhingravi , is derived from Mons for mountain and Rhingravi the Rhine count . The name Grevenberg has been known since 1258 and 1259.

In 1160 the Scharfenstein Castle in the Turmberg next to the Graefenberg was built as a spur castle under Archbishop Christian I von Buch and from 1191 was occupied by the Electorate of Mainz , who then called themselves "von Scharfenstein".

Vineyard

Official viticulture classification of the Nassau Rheingau from 1867

The approximately 11 hectares large Rhinegau vineyard Kiedricher Graefenberg is a south to southwest position, a slope angle of from 40 to 60%. It is enclosed to the north, east and south by the location of Kiedricher Wasseros . It begins just above the valley floor at 150  m above sea level. NHN and extends to about 220  m above sea level. NHN up. The location of Kiedrich extends to the south and west on the opposite side of the valley of the Kiedricher Bach . The location enables optimal tanning with high temperatures. The drying of the leaf surfaces is promoted by good ventilation. The fact that north winds, which move from the Taunus to the Rhine, are softened by the Heidekopf (500 m) and the Dreibornsköpf (548 m) has a positive effect on the microclimate of the vineyards and enables a long physiological ripening time and the corresponding fruit and aroma development of the grapes. In the medium to deep, steinig- grusigen phyllite soils with shares of loess and clay is mostly Riesling grown .

The Graefenberg belongs to the first class vineyards with twelve other locations, the location classification of which was described in 1867 in the work Der Nassauische Weinbau published by Friedrich Wilhelm Dünkelberg .

Ownership

Today three wineries share the Graefenberg, the largest part is owned by the Robert Weil winery . Smaller shares are divided between the Georg Sohlbach and Speicher-Schuth wineries.

Trivia

800 bottles of the 1893 Kiedricher Gräfenberg Riesling Auslese from the house of Weil, which is considered a top wine, were purchased in 1900 by the Viennese court economics office at a bottle price of 16 gold marks .

Web links

Commons : Kiedricher Graefenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Hornickel: The top wines in Europe . Seewald Verlag, Stuttgart 1963.
  2. ↑ Graefenberg in the Wein-Plus glossary
  3. ↑ Friedrich A. Cornelssen: The great book of German wine . Seewald Verlag 1977, ISBN 3-512-00416-4 .
  4. ↑ Topographic map, sheet 5914 Eltville am Rhein
  5. ↑ Daniel Deckers 2011: The first site classification map in the world was for the Rheingau in 1867 (PDF; 92 kB)
  6. ↑ dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate: The Nassau viticulture: a sketch of the climatic, soil and Culture conditions of the Rheingau. Edited by Friedrich Wilhelm Dünkelberg
  7. ^ Norbert Tischelmayer: Graefenberg . Wine Plus. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
  8. ↑ Kiedrich Graefenberg on the Weil winery website

Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 5 ′ 14 ″  E