Press house

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Press house (also Kelterhaus ) refers to a building in viticulture in which the fermentation tub and the wine press ("Kelter", also "Torkel" or "Trotte") are housed. Most of the time, the press house is just below ground level and directly in front of the storage cellar , to which it is connected by the "cellar neck".

Press house in Mailberg under monument protection
The Rote Trotte in Wettingen

On the street front next to the entrance portal, the press house has another large opening in the wall (referred to as the "Geittür" in the Weinviertel ) through which the grapes are unloaded and brought into the press house. Under this opening in the wall there is a large stone basin inside the press house, which was used to receive the grapes and mash them. Modern harvest trolleys take over the mashing while the grapes are being transported to the press house, so that finished mash is delivered and pumped into the basin.

In the Weinviertel (the north-eastern part of Lower Austria ) and the adjacent areas in the Czech Republic as well as in Burgenland and the border area in Hungary , all of the town's press houses are usually located in a cellar lane outside the built-up area. Where they are no longer needed for their actual function, vinification , they are often adapted as residential and / or leisure facilities.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Epp, Karl Bauer, Leonhard Czipin a. a .: Cellar economy. Textbook and textbook for agricultural technical schools and for vocational training. 5th edition. Österreichischer Agrarverlag, Klosterneuburg 1996, ISBN 3-7040-1224-6 , p. 89 f.
  2. ^ György Sebestyén : The great Austrian wine lexicon. Verlag Fritz Molden, Vienna u. a. 1978, ISBN 3-217-00819-7 , p. 115 ("Cellar Types").
  3. ↑ Norbert Tischelmayer's Wine Glossary. 2777 terms related to wine. NP-Buchverlag, St. Pölten, Vienna / Linz, 2001, ISBN 3-85326-177-9 .
  4. ↑ Hubert Bruckner: Weinviertel from Arnt to Zwidawurzn. Dialect collection from north-eastern Lower Austria [incl. South Moravian]. Illustr. from Maierhofer, Renate. Self-published, Oberndorf / Melk 2004, DNB 979550319 ; New edition u. d. T .: Weinviertel from Arnt to Zwidawurzn. Dialect collection from the Weinviertel. Krenn, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-99005-232-7 .