Marcobrunn

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The Marcobrunnen on the country road between Erbach and Hattenheim

The Marcobrunn is a vineyard west of Erbach in the Rheingau , after the Marco fountain , a combined source is named.

Name origin

The name mentioned as markenburne or markenbrone is probably derived from the Old or Middle High German word marka or mark for border, because the fountain was then on the boundary between Erbach and Hattenheim. Another explanation is provided by the patron saint of the Erbach church - Saint Mark - who is attested in 1258. The current form of the spring dates from the beginning of the 19th century.

Vineyard

The 6.7  hectares comprehensive Rheingau Wine able Erbacher Marcobrunn is on the Strahlenberg between Hattenheim and Erbach . It is south-facing, inclined by 5 °. Only Riesling , the famous “Marcobrunner”, is cultivated on the deep, calcareous and clayey marl soils . The location has been documented since the 13th century.

The Marcobrunn belongs next to the Hattenheimer Wisselbrunnen and Hattenheimer Nussbrunnen to the so-called "fountain locations". These vineyards stand on compact rock layers that stretch from the Taunus to these vineyards - located near the Rhine - and lead the rainwater into the soils of these locations.

The Marcobrunn vineyard is one of the oldest named vineyards in the Eberbach Monastery . The wine grown here ( vini crementi in Marckinborn ) is already traded as a special quality wine as early as 1390 .

The Marcobrunn was the first vineyard location in the Rheingau that was used on labels to denote wine. However, in 1726 this was still without a location. It was not until the second half of the 19th century that it became established as a fixed rule to name the location along with the associated municipality name of the district. Until then it was simply the "Marcobrunner".

In 1810, the citizens of Erbach took the source in neoclassical forms on the border of the Hattenheim district . The fountain was renovated in June 2014, but was damaged again by graffiti before it was inaugurated .

In the work "Der Nassauische Weinbau" published by Friedrich Wilhelm Dünkelberg in 1867 with the first classification of vineyards in the Rheingau, it is classified as a first class vineyard.

Shareholders

Today six wineries share the Erbacher Marcobrunn, the largest shareholder is the domain winery Schloss Schönborn in Hattenheim. The Schönborn part can be described as the fillet of the Marcobrunn with the oldest vines. It was acquired in 1642 by Count Philipp Erwein von Schönborn . On January 17, 1673 and September 1, 1684, the Marcobrunn vineyards were inherited from Georg Anton von Heppenheim, called vom Saal , to the Schönborn family.

The Marcobrunn with a size of 6.67 hectares is now divided into seven owners:

Wilhelm Ruthe Monument

Wilhelm-Ruthe-Monument in Erbacher Marcobrunn

In the Erbacher Marcobrunn, the Rheingau wine merchants' association had a monument erected in honor of its former chairman Wilhelm Ruthe (born September 30, 1865 in Jahnsfelde, † November 23, 1954 in Wiesbaden).

Trivia

In addition to Thomas Jefferson in 1788, Goethe also passed the Marcobrunn in his traveling coach in 1814.

"It is wonderful how close human happiness and roast turkey are to one another and what puffs the heart can take when you can parry every beat with a bottle of Marcobrunner."

- Theodor Fontane to Theodor Storm on April 17, 1854

The 1868 Erbacher Marcobrunn Cabinett Beerenauslese from the Schönborn house, considered the top wine of its century, was served as a drink of honor to Kaiser Wilhelm I in 1883 at the inauguration of the Niederwald monument in Rüdesheim , but after it was declared an "1868 Rüdesheimer", which was still allowed at the time because there was no wine law yet.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Staab : Agriculture and viticulture of the Eberbach Cistercians . In: The Hessian Minister for Agriculture and Forests, Freundeskreis Kloster Eberbach eV (Hrsg.): Eberbach im Rheingau . Cistercian - Culture - Wine. The Hessian Minister for Agriculture and Forests, Wiesbaden / Eltville 1986, p. 105-115 .
  2. ↑ Marcobunnen already smeared again after renovation in FAZ of June 17, 2014, page 44

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 6 ″  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 46 ″  E