Meissner Kapitelberg
The Meißner Kapitelberg is a vineyard near Meißen in the wine-growing region of Saxony . It belongs to the Meissen area and is located in the Spaargebirge area .
The Meißner Kapitelberg vineyard in the Oberspaar district is one of the best vineyards in Saxony. The subsoil consists of loose granite - syenite - weathered soil with a small proportion of fine earth.
The 42 hectare , south to south-west facing location has a slope of 5 to 30 percent and does not yet belong to the category of steep slopes .
history
Viticulture on the Elbe is mentioned for the first time in 1161 in a deed of donation from the Meissen Margrave Otto the Rich (reigned 1156–1190) to a Cistercian monastery . According to legend, Bishop Benno von Meißen († 1107) is said to have planted the first vine himself near Meißen and drank Meißnian wine.
The Meißner Tageblatt wrote for the millennium on June 1, 1929 that the Meißner city winery on the Kapitelberg in the Spaargebirge was the largest winery in the Free State of Saxony at that time. Of the 90 hectares of vineyards that were available in the Meißner district, the Meißner city winery worked 17 hectares.
Buildings
The house at Kapitelholzsteig 1 ( Weingut Vincenz Richter ) was built in 1674. In 1698 and 1699 it was added as a stable building. The building has a well-formed half-timbering on the upper floor and a rich formation of wooden cornices with teeth, which on the main cornice are partly straight, but partly oblique.
Wine royal vineyard
The reigning Saxon wine queen has her own vineyard: The vineyard called Rote Presse is located in the Meißner Kapitelberg vineyard . Not far from the top of the Deutsche Bosel , the terraced steep slope is recognizable from a far visible, ocher-yellow vineyard house with a pointed roof, the so-called swallow's nest .
Some of the grapes harvested there are processed into the wine of the Saxon Wine Queen, which is also used for representational purposes. Until 2011 it was always a Riesling . On the occasion of the 850th anniversary of Saxon viticulture, the variety of the wine royal wine was changed to Traminer , the oldest Saxon grape variety and thus typical of the Saxon wine-growing region.
literature
- Dieter Braatz, Ulrich Sautter, Ingo Swoboda: Wine Atlas Germany . Hallwag Verlag, ISBN 9783833806384
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The “castle” of the Saxon Wine Queen and her own wine; The swallow's nest in the Spaar Mountains. Retrieved February 24, 2013.