State court cellar Würzburg

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Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 38.1 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 17.8 ″  E

State court cellar Würzburg

logo
legal form Public company
founding 1128
Seat Wurzburg
management Thilo Heuft
Number of employees approx. 50
sales ?
Branch winery
Website www.hofkeller.de

Administration building (Rosenbachpalais) next to the Prince-Bishop's Residence

The Staatliche Hofkeller Würzburg is a winery owned by the Free State of Bavaria in Franconia . With a vineyard area of ​​120 hectares , which are distributed over a large area in Franconia, and an annual production of around 850,000 bottles, it is the third largest winery in Germany.

Administration in the Rosenbachpalais

The Hofkeller goes back to a deed of donation from 1128 and is therefore the oldest documented winery in Germany. The winery has been owned by the respective ruling power without interruption since it was founded. It is located in the Rosenbachpalais in Würzburg (named after Prince-Bishop Johann Hartmann von Rosenbach , created around 1700 by Antonio Petrini ), Residenzplatz 3.

Cultivation

Rock formations

The Staatliche Hofkeller Würzburg builds wines on four different rock formations in Franconia: Primordial rock, shell limestone, gypsum keuper and red sandstone. The growing areas are: Alzenau wine region, Churfranken, Main Himmelreich, Frankens Saalestück, Mittelmain, MainSüden, Schwanberger Land, Weinparadies.

Grape varieties

The grape varieties include the white varieties Riesling , Silvaner , Müller-Thurgau , Rieslaner , Weißer Burgunder as well as various varieties for the production of red wine . The wines are aged in the cellars under the residence.

Locations

In Randersacker, the Marsberg, Teufelskeller, Lämmerberg and Pfülben sites are cultivated. The location Randersackerer Pfülben (from Middle High German Pfülwen = pillow) is west of Randersacker and grows on steep slopes in a south-westerly direction. The Hörsteiner Abtsberg location is on the foothills of the Spessart ridge. The soils are primary rock made of gnais, mica slate, granite and basalt. Here was a summer residence for the abbots. The Würzburger Innere Leiste is located south of the Würzburg fortress Marienberg and the Maschikuliturm. The soils consist of clayey limestone. The Würzburger Schlossberg site extends below the fortress towards the Main. The Handtal local insert is located at the Steigerwald Nature Park

Quality levels

The Staatliche Hofkeller Würzburg is a member of the Association of German Predicate and Quality Wineries and classifies its wines accordingly.

Particular attention is paid to the large plants (corresponds to VDP.Große Lage), whose sites were already classified by the royal Bavarian soil assessment of 1828. A maximum of 50 hl / ha with a minimum must weight of 90 degrees Oechsle is produced. The wines are made dry and are not marketed until September of the following year. These layers are: Randersackerer Pfülben, Würzburger Innere Leiste, Würzburger Stein . The wines are bottled in Bocksbeutel bottles.

Furthermore, VDP.Erste Lage grapes are marketed that are selectively harvested by hand, with yields of a maximum of 60 hl / ha. VDP. Local wines come from vineyards within a local boundary with a maximum yield of 75 hl / ha. The estate wines are varietal wines that are bottled as a cuvée in Bordeaux bottles without a location name.

In the classification of the Gault Millau WeinGuide wine guide , it received three grapes. The grape production is environmentally friendly, the grape processing preserves quality.

The basement under the residence

Wing of the Würzburg Residence with Frankonia Fountain

Like the other two large Würzburg wineries - Juliusspital Würzburg and Bürgerspital zum Heiligen Geist - the Hofkeller offers cellar tours and has direct sales in the neighboring Rosenbachpalais for private customers. The cellar tour begins at the Frankonia Fountain in front of the Würzburg Residence and leads to the cellar vault under the north wing of the Residence.

The winecellar

The UNESCO has the cellars together with the overlying residence in 1981 to the rank of World Heritage collected. The vaults consist of walls up to five meters thick and were constructed by Balthasar Neumann together with the residence in 1720–1744. For structural reasons, the main part of the residence does not have a basement. The south wing, on the other hand, has a cellar and houses the steel tanks for fermenting the grape juice. In the north wing is the cellar with around 300 wooden barrels that can hold around 700,000 liters.

Foolish wine tasting

Part of the north wing only serves as a framework for wine tastings for large groups of around 100 people. For example, at the beginning of the carnival season, there is a foolish wine tasting broadcast by Bavarian television , in which wine tasting and foolish speeches alternate. The wine cellar will be lit with a variety of candles during the tour. This is an ancient custom to test the oxygen content of the cellar air. A small part of the cellar ceiling was destroyed during the bombing of Würzburg. The basement has an area of ​​4557 square meters, a length of 891 meters and a vault height of up to six meters. A 63 meter long corridor from the 1960s connects the originally separate northern and southern basement parts below the Ehrenhofplatz.

Famous barrels and rarities

In the state court cellar, among other things, is the Swedish barrel , which was subsequently made for the millennium wine of 1540. The wine pay (wages in kind) for the court employees was stored in the three official wine barrels. These three barrels were built in 1784 and have a total volume of 100,000 liters. Wine rarities are kept and exhibited in the treasure chamber in the Bacchus cellar.

Awards

  • 3 grapes Gault Millau 2014
  • 1.5 stars Eichelmann Wine Guide 2014
  • 1 point gourmet wine guide 2014
  • 3 stars Wein-Plus 2014
  • 2 star Johnson Wine Guide 2014

Ownership

  • 1128: The Würzburg Bishop Embricho donated a plot of land in Zell to the friars to found a monastery.
  • Prince-Bishop's court cellar
  • Royal Bavarian court cellar
  • State court cellar Würzburg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: p. 624.
  2. ↑ Staatlicher Hofkeller Würzburg (ed.): Our wine treasures, spring 2019, p. 6.
  3. ↑ Staatlicher Hofkeller Würzburg (Ed.): Our Wine Treasures, AUTUMN 2019, p. 25.
  4. ↑ Staatlicher Hofkeller Würzburg (ed.): Our wine treasures, spring 2019, pp. 11, 15, 16, 19, 24.
  5. ↑ Staatlicher Hofkeller Würzburg (ed.): Our wine treasures, spring 2019, p. 13
  6. ↑ Quality levels by evaluating the private wine list, 2008 of the Staatlichen Hofkeller Würzburg
  7. ^ The "Foolish Wine Tasting" on the pages of the "Studio Franconia" of the "Bayerischer Rundfunk" ( Memento from April 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Hidden things want to be discovered Report, Baukultur 2/2007, pp. 12-14, accessed on February 1, 2012
  9. ↑ Staatlicher Hofkeller Würzburg (ed.): Our wine treasures, spring 2020. The tithe to the court. P. 16.
  10. ↑ Staatlicher Hofkeller Würzburg (Ed.): Our wine cellar. Flyer Würzburg, approx. 2013.
  11. ↑ Staatlicher Hofkeller Würzburg (ed.) :: Our wine treasures, spring 2019, p. 5

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