Wine village Koblenz

The wine village with the redesigned Rhine systems in front of it

The Koblenz Wine Village is a village- style restaurant in the southern suburb of Koblenz . The wine village is located in the Rhine facilities not far from the Pfaffendorfer Bridge and was built in 1925 for the "Reichsausstellung Deutscher Wein" (Reich Exhibition of German Wine). The operator is the "Weindorf Koblenz Bastian Gastronomie Betriebs GmbH".

history

Reich Exhibition of German Wine 1925

The "Reich Exhibition of German Wine" took place from August 8th to September 13th 1925 as part of the celebrations for the 1000th anniversary of the Rhineland . Koblenz was chosen as the venue because the city is located in a wine-growing region and is the center of the wine trade and tourism .

The event area with exhibition halls and houses as well as pavilions followed a spouting angle along the former Prussian city fortifications and extended from today's wine village to the city festival hall . The largest exhibition hall, the machine hall (also known as the Rheinhalle), was in the middle of the exhibition grounds. On the side facing the Rhine , there was a wine village, built in the style of half-timbered houses . The individual German wine-growing regions and wine producers presented their wine products here . The municipal building authority under Rogg & Neumann was in charge of the planning, the design of the individual buildings came from the architectural office Stähler & Horn. These buildings, originally erected only for the duration of the exhibition, were so popular that they were retained as a tourist attraction.

British aerial reconnaissance after the devastating air raid on Koblenz on November 6, 1944, the site of the Reichsausstellung Deutscher Wein from 1925 (on the right at the edge of the picture) is in ruins

In the first few days over 20,000 visitors came from all over Germany. The then Lord Mayor Dr. Karl Russell praised "this village that lifts Coblenz out of the daily routine." President Paul von Hindenburg sent a congratulatory telegram for the opening and inauguration on August 8, 1925.

After the Second World War

In 1944, during air raids during World War II , the former event site of the “Reichsausstellung Deutscher Wein” was completely destroyed. In the following years they made do with a “wine village tent” next to the destroyed festival hall. Because of its extremely high popularity, some buildings on the Rhine, today's wine village, were finally rebuilt in a somewhat simplified form by 1951.

On April 10, 1951, the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Agriculture approved the creation of a small vineyard called "Koblenzer Schnorbach-Brückstück" with 1500 vines behind the wine village. It was named after the mayor of the post-war period, Josef Schnorbach . For the reconstruction and the extension of the vineyard, 662,641 DM were spent from the public purse . The Rhein-Mosel-Halle was built around the site of the Rheinhalle, which was built for the Imperial Exhibition, in 1959–1962 . The wine village complex was expanded in 1982 by adding another lower building on the east side of the Mittelrheinhaus.

construction

Today's wine village consists of four inns , which are grouped around a common courtyard with a pavilion , the so-called market square. They represent the various West German wine-growing regions and have accordingly been built in different half-timbered forms and roof coverings. In detail these are the following houses:

House Mosel, Saar, Ruwer (west side)
House Württemberg - Baden (north side)
House Middle Rhine , Ahr , Siebengebirge (southeast side)
House Pfalz , Nahe , Rheingau (southwest side)

The main entrance is located between the last two houses on the south side via a flight of stairs . The picturesque ensemble of buildings with its steep roofs, protruding gables , crooked hips , bay windows , arcades and various decorative half-timbered forms is intended to create a feeling of home , down-to-earthness and cosiness.

Wine fountain

The wine fountain on a meadow in front of the wine village

On the occasion of the “Reich Exhibition of German Wine” in 1925 , the memorial of German wine created by Professor Josef Henselmann was erected in the courtyard of the Rheinhalle in the middle of the event site. Due to the nudity of the characters depicted, however, it caused violent protests among the population. It was eventually veiled and completely removed in 1928.

As a replacement for the memorial, the wine fountain was commissioned from Carl Burger in 1928 and set up in the same place. The fountain, which was still completely preserved after the Second World War, later had to give way to the new construction of the Rhein-Mosel-Halle (1959–1962) when the site was cleared. Then the remains of the sculpture were placed in front of the wine village, the fountain itself was dismantled and stored in a building yard in Niederberg .

The Förderverein Rheinanlagen eV has been re-erecting the complete wine fountain since 2004. For this purpose, the missing parts of the well were searched for, rediscovered at the building yard in Niederberg and then given to a restorer. In autumn 2013 the wine fountain could be rebuilt on a meadow south of the wine village, the inauguration took place on October 6, 2013.

Wine village mayor

Blackboard with the wine village mayor

From 1925 to 1955 there were a total of three mayors in keeping with the village atmosphere:

Peter Ferges (1925-1933)
Jupp Flohr (1934–1936)
Jupp Dommermuth (1950–1955)

Their names, together with their “terms of office” and portraits, are on a bronze plaque, donated by the Great Koblenz Carnival Society, on the inside of the Middle Rhine House.

Monument protection

The wine village is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Südliche Vorstadt at Julius-Wegeler-Straße 2 .

The wine village has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 .

literature

Reich Exhibition of German Wine. Official leader. Koblenz 1925 ( online )
Katharina Richter, Detlef Wahl: Rheinanlagen mit Rheinfront 1809 to 1983. In: Press and Tourism Office City of Koblenz: The Rheinanlagen Koblenz. From the beginnings till now. Self-published, Koblenz 1992.
Willi K. Michels: The fate of Koblenz house corners - earlier, yesterday, today! Koblenz 1987, p. 127f.
Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .