Vollrads Castle

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Overall complex seen from the southeast
Overview of the site
Main building and main gate of the castle
Main building from the castle courtyard
Residential tower and moat
Farm buildings in the back of the courtyard
Orangery

Schloss Vollrads is a castle in the Hessian Rheingau , about two kilometers from the banks of the Rhine north of Winkel , surrounded by forest and vineyards at an altitude of 160 meters.

history

The castle was named after the Lords of Winkel; Vollradus is a first name. Thus in 1218 a "Vollradus in Winkela" (so-called "Ritter Vollradus"), 1268 a "Conradus dictus Vollradus armed " (Conradus, called the weapon-bearing Vollradus) is mentioned in the sources. Nothing can be seen of the original structure from this time.

The core of today's castle is a massive residential tower built as a moated castle , which is surrounded by a square pond and can only be reached via a bridge. It goes back to the first third of the 14th century and the von Greiffenclau family, who were heirs to the von Winkel lords. The octagonal stair tower flanking the donjon was added in 1471; the bay window is an ingredient from 1620. The Greiffenclau family coat of arms is emblazoned above the entrance to the residential tower.

In 1684, today's two-wing mansion (then two-story) was built by Georg Phillip Greiffenclau von Vollrads next to the tower. His son Johann Erwein added the farm buildings around 1700, erected boundary walls around the castle garden and provided the water tower with a baroque hooded roof.

In 1907/1908 Countess Clara Matuschka-Greiffenclau, wife of the Wiesbaden district administrator Guido von Matuschka-Greiffenclau , made modifications. She had the south wing of the manor house raised by a third floor, two towers with onion domes added, the terraces extended and the bay window at the donjon added.

From 1935 Richard Graf Matuschka-Greiffenclau , who later became president and honorary president of the German Viticulture Association and member of the state parliament, was landlord at Schloss Vollrads.

In 1975 Erwein Graf Matuschka-Greiffenclau took over the highly indebted property. However, he did not succeed in financially rehabilitating the property. When the house bank filed for bankruptcy proceedings over the property, Matuschka-Greiffenclau committed suicide in 1997. Since then, the property has belonged to the Nassauische Sparkasse , which manages the castle with its vineyards and a restaurant.

The winery is a member of the Association of German Predicate and Quality Wineries . Large parts of the castle are not open to the public; Access is possible during events. Live music events are held in summer, and in the autumn there is a bar in the courtyard during the wine season. Civil weddings are possible in consultation with the Oestrich-Winkel registry office .

In 2011 the leather wallpapers in the mansion in the manor house from the beginning of the 18th century were restored with funds from the State of Hesse, the Förderverein Schloss Vollrads and the German Foundation for Monument Protection .

Viticulture

Viticulture in today's Rheingau single location Schlossberg was documented in the early Middle Ages. The oldest wine bill from Schloss Vollrads dates back to 1211. The individual vineyards of Schloss Vollrads are bounded by the Winkeler individual layers Dachsberg and the buildings of Schloss Vollrads in the north and east and by the individual layers of Gutenberg and Schlossberg in the south.

Since the German wine law of 1971 Schloss Vollrads applies as well Schloss Johannisberg , Schloss Reichartshausen and Steinberg, Kloster Eberbach as a separate district. This means that the wine from the Schloss Vollrads site can be labeled as “Schloss Vollrads” without specifying a place name.

In addition to the location Schloss Vollrads, which covers 48 hectares of vineyards and belongs to the major location Honigberg, Schloss Vollrads had also managed the princely Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg 's vineyards in Hallgarten in the 1980s and 1990s and had thus come to a company size of 64 hectares .

Today the vineyard area of ​​Vollrads Castle covers a total of 80 hectares with locations in Oestrich-Winkel, Hallgarten, Hattenheim and Geisenheim.

Only the Riesling grape is planted, from which all quality levels from quality wine to Kabinett , Spätlese , Auslese , Beerenauslese , Trockenbeerenauslese to ice wine are produced.

Since 2004, the wine bottles have been closed with the Vino-Lok glass caps as an alternative to traditional corks . As a result, the wine stays fresh longer and free of off-shades such as the cork taste or other wine defects caused by natural cork .

literature

  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , pp. 284f.
  • Harald Winkel: Documents from the Schloss Vollrads house archive can be researched online. Development project in the Hessian main state archive completed . In: Archivnachrichten aus Hessen 18/1 (2018), p. 39f.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Vollrads  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topographic map 1: 25,000
  2. ↑ Angelika Bruder: Tragic death against an idyllic backdrop. In: Berliner Zeitung . August 20, 1997, accessed August 18, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Civil weddings at Schloss Vollrads  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.haushalts-mag.de  
  4. ↑ Mythical creatures and climbing plants in gold. In: FAZ of May 25, 2011, p. 44
  5. ↑ Schloss Vollrads winery near Vinarium
  6. ^ Page 159 in Horst Dohm: Wineries in Germany. Sources of fine wines . Meininger Verlag, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1985, ISBN 3-87524-044-8

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 46 ″  N , 7 ° 59 ′ 46 ″  E