Wehlener sundial
Coordinates: 49 ° 56 ′ 52 ″ N , 7 ° 2 ′ 30 ″ E
The term Wehlener Sonnenuhr describes a German vineyard in the wine-growing town of Wehlen, which is now part of the city of Bernkastel-Kues on the Moselle . The wine grown here is known nationwide. The vineyard is on a southwest slope of the Moselle . The vines thrive on Devonian and slate weathered soils .
In the 19th century the term “sundial” was only used orally. It did not appear in a location map until 1868. On August 29, 1913, the then approximately 10 hectare Wehlener sundial was first approved as a location name and its size was precisely defined. In 1953 the responsible local council decided to enlarge the area by 25 hectares to a total of 35 hectares. On August 31, 1970, a few months before the incorporation into Bernkastel-Kues as part of a regional reform , the Wehlen municipal council passed a further expansion decision: the entire right side of the Moselle belonging to Wehlen should be declared the “Wehlener Sundial”. This would have meant an expansion to a total of 58 hectares. A ten-year legal dispute against this extension ended in 1980 with a compromise: The location name was extended to only approx. 47 hectares. The Wehlener Sundial is part of the Münzlay area .
There is still a sundial in the vineyard today . It was built in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm in the middle of the slate cliffs of what was then known as the "Lammerterlay" location, originally only served as a time orientation and only replaced the former location "Lammerterlay" at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. On a sunny day you can clearly read the time on it. It is one of the landmarks of the village of Wehlen .
The single layer of Zeltinger Sonnenuhr is in the immediate vicinity . There are other vineyards with the name Sonnenuhr in Brauneberg , Maring-Noviand , Neumagen-Dhron , Pomerania and Ürzig .
literature
- Dieter Braatz, Ulrich Sauter, Ingo Swoboda, Hendrik Holler: Wine Atlas Germany . 1st edition. Hallwag, Munich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0638-4 .
- Stuart Pigott, Andreas Durst, Ursula Heinzelmann, Chandra Kurt, Manfred Lüer, Stephan Reinhardt: Wine speaks German . 1st edition. Scherz, Frankfurt am Main, 2007, ISBN 978-3-502-19000-4 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Scheuermann, Mario .: The great wines of the century . Falken Verlag, Niedernhausen / Ts. 2000, ISBN 3-8068-7475-1 , pp. 84 .