Trarbacher Hühnerberg

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The Trarbacher Hühnerberg with a semicircular structure.

The Trarbacher Hühnerberg is a vineyard in the city of Traben-Trarbach . The vineyard covers approx. 4 hectares and is a pure steep slope .

Location and soil conditions

The exact geographic position of the Trarbacher Hühnerberg is 49 ° 55'59.00 "N, 7 ° 06'54.10" E and is approx. 130-170 m above sea ​​level . It is located in a side valley of the Moselle , the Kautenbach valley , on the Hunsrück . The exposure of the vineyard is south-southeast to south-southwest. As a result, the mountain makes a slight curve. The soil of the Trarbacher Hühnerberg is rich in humus and mixed with weathered Devonian slate, and there are also some springs.

Moselle viticulture map for the Coblenz administrative district, 1897. The Trarbacher Hühnerberg is located on the map at the bottom left, near the town of Traben-Trarbach and the municipality of Bad Wildstein.

Vineyard

The Trarbacher Hühnerberg was mentioned as a prestigious location as early as 1897. This is due to the exposure of the vineyard, which shows theater-like in the direction of south-southwest to south-southeast and is therefore exposed to high solar radiation and, on the other hand, because the slate soil typical of the Moselle is to be found.

Since the vineyards are extremely steep, they were terraced as early as the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century (massive broken slate walls were built) to protect the slope from erosion, but also to align the vineyard more optimally towards the sun. Due to the steep incline, the vineyard was largely laid fallow from the 1980s, as no machines could cultivate the vineyard. Therefore the areas are partly overgrown. Since the year 2000, however, the vineyard has been gradually recultivated by local winemakers. The most important producer is the Martin Müllen winery.

Grape harvest in Trarbacher Hühnerberg around 1917

literature

  • Stuart Pigott, Manfred Lüer: Stuart Pigotts Weinreisen Scherz, Frankfurt am Main, 2009, ISBN 978-3-502-15173-9
  • Ulrich Steger, Kai Wagner: The avant-garde of German winemakers , 1st edition, oekom, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86581-427-2
  • Stuart Pigott: WEIN SPRICHT DEUTSCH , Scherz, Frankfurt am Main, 2007, ISBN 978-3-502-19000-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moselle meeting point Traben-Trarbach, all about wine
  2. ↑ Museumsverein Hamburg VFDMM - wine region Mosel - slate
  3. ↑ https://www.slowfood.de/w/files/rebstock/bericht_m_mucllen_zum_hbg_weinjahr_2010.pdf
  4. ↑ Slow Food Germany e. V. - Rebstock sponsorships

Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '  N , 7 ° 7'  E