Country Wine Master

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The (head) country wine master was a courtly office. He was responsible for all of the sovereign's vineyards . In personal union, as court cellar master , the stately cellars could also be subordinate to him.

The mountain administrators were subordinate to the country wine master .

In electoral Saxony , the official residence of the country wine master was the electoral Hoflößnitz winery , at the same time he held the position of main armory cellar master.

source

  • Ingrid Zeidler: The Hoflößnitz vineyards from the beginning of viticulture to the present day. In: Heinrich Magirius (Ed.): 600 years Hoflößnitz. Historical winery complex . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-930382-60-1 , p. 28 .