Marienthal (Ahr)

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Marienthal
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '8 "  N , 7 ° 3' 29"  E
Height : 120 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 104  (Jan 31, 2011)
Postal code : 53507, 53474
Area code : 02641
Marienthal (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Marienthal

Location of Marienthal in Rhineland-Palatinate

Marienthal with Krausberg
Marienthal with Krausberg

Marienthal an der Ahr is a hamlet in the Ahrweiler district . A small part of the village belongs to the local community of Dernau , the larger part to the city of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and its local district Walporzheim .

geography

Marienthal is located in the middle of the Ahr valley to the left of the river between Walporzheim and Dernau, surrounded by soaring vineyards and forest. The slopes facing south and south-west (Stiftsberg, Klosterberg, Rosenberg, Trotzenberg) are planted with vines. To the right of the Ahr rises between Marienthal and Dernau, the wooded Krausberg , which is 362  m above sea level. NHN is the highest on site.

history

Marienthal Monastery

Nucleus of the hamlet was the 1137 from the neighboring Mayschoß resident counts of Saffenburg Endowed Augustinian Monastery "Mary vallis". It was settled with nuns from the Klosterrath mother house in what is now the Netherlands. According to sparse references in the Klosterrath annals , the approx. 40 Augustinian women maintained seven workshops, a distillery , a bakery and a guest house in this oldest monastery in the Ahr valley .

In the Thirty Years War the monastery was plundered and damaged by Swedish troops and the French; Rebuilt at the beginning of the 18th century. In 1801 the monastery was finally closed by the French state, and the monastery buildings and possessions were auctioned off by the French government for demolition in 1811. The church and individual wings have been preserved.

Winemaking domain

In 1925, Marienthal became the Prussian state wine-growing domain in the Ahr wine-growing region and the administration moved into newly constructed buildings. In 1952, part of the 19 hectares of vineyards was assigned to the teaching and research institute of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for breeding new grape varieties. In 2004 the country sold properties and vineyards to several winemakers.

The small hamlet that arose in the vicinity of the monastery also lives from viticulture and wine tourism today .

KZ satellite camp Rebstock

Marienthal was the concentration camp Rebstock of the Buchenwald concentration camp .

Culture and sights

Marienthal Abbey with a view towards the Ahr
  • The eye-catcher of the place is the ruin of the monastery church. Its architectural structure (west facade, nave with large lancet windows and round apse ) is still clearly visible. The outer walls are largely overgrown with ivy and Parthenocissus . The interior can be entered via the monastery garden. The buildings of the wine-growing domain, renovated in 1925 in the style of monastic cloister buildings, enclose an inner courtyard that is used for gastronomy purposes. The foundations with barrel vaults from the 12th century have been preserved and now house the wine cellar.
  • The red wine hiking trail , which is partly designed as an educational wine trail, leads past Marienthal . The Bunte Kuh rock, which was frequented in the 19th century, lies between Marienthal and Walporzheim.
  • The former government bunker , which was designed between 1960 and 1972 as an alternative seat for the federal constitutional organs in the event of a nuclear attack (so-called atomic bunker ), is only of documentary value . In an emergency, it was supposed to ensure the survival of 3000 people for a month. Under the code name Dienststelle Marienthal , the purpose of the gray cube equipped with bulletproof glass and cameras in the vineyard above the town was not recognizable to the public. It was the entrance to a sophisticated subterranean tunnel system 19 km long and 60–115 m deep between Dernau and Ahrweiler. With the end of the Cold War , the bunker became functionless and has been gradually dismantled since 2001 . A 200 m long concrete tube at the Ahrweiler Silberberg remained standing and has been accessible as a museum since March 1, 2008.
  • The Alfred Dahm Tower , a covered wooden observation tower , stands on the southeastern crest of the Krausberg .

Viticulture and Tourism

Marienthaler Trotzenberg vineyard

The wine town of Marienthal has five individual layers . They are all steep slopes with greywacke weathering in the upper area and loess and clay in the lower section. The wines produced are fruity from the grapes in the upper section (around 200–250 m) and full-bodied from the vines in the lower section (around 100 m).

  • Monastery garden, 9.6 ha, vineyard slope at the former Augustinian monastery;
  • Stiftsberg, 12.22 ha, north between Marienthal and Dernau;
  • Trotzenberg, 7.97 ha, former castle hill directly on site;
  • Rosenberg, 15.21 ha, east of the Trotzenberg;
  • Jesuit garden, 11.56 hectares south between Marienthal and Walporzheim on the area of ​​a former Jesuit farm.

Spätburgunder (39%) and Portugieser are the preferred red grape varieties, followed by Dornfelder and Frühburgunder . With Rivaner and Riesling, the white wine share reaches 21%.

The largest winery in Marienthal is the former state wine-growing domain of Marienthal with 19 hectares of vineyards and an annual production of 100,000 bottles. The state wine-growing domain Marienthal was sold in 2004 to Weingut Kloster Marienthal KG, a community made up of the Dernau and Mayschoss winegrowers' cooperatives and the Brogsitter and Meyer-Näkel wineries . For tourists, wine tasting takes place in the tasting room in the monastery garden. Concerts and other events are held in the monastery property, and it can be rented for private celebrations.

In addition, there are some smaller family wineries on site, which maintain bars, sales, food and accommodation.

literature

  • The purchase of the Marienthal monastery on the Ahr by the Prussian state and its first expansion into the Prussian state viticulture domain , Verlag Landes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Weinbau, Gartenbau und Landwirtschaft, 1961

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jakob Rausch: Marienthal on the Ahr ; In the 1957 homeland yearbook, Ahrweiler district
  2. Winery ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the weingut-kloster-marienthal.de portal , accessed on June 6, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weingut-kloster-marienthal.de