Kreutzenberger winery
| Kreutzenberger winery | ||
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 The main building of the Kreutzenberger winery in the New Objectivity style |
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| place | Children's home | |
| architect | Otto Prott | |
| Client | Emil Kreutzenberger | |
| Architectural style | New Objectivity | |
| Construction year | 1929-1930 | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 36 '42.8 " N , 8 ° 10' 6.9" E | |
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The Kreutzenberger winery is a family-run winery in Kindenheim (Rhineland-Palatinate). The listed main building in the New Objectivity style dates from 1929. The vineyards are located in the locations of Kindenheim and Bockenheim .
history
The Kreutzenberger family was first mentioned in a document in 1438. At the end of the 19th century, the family converted the original mixed farm to a specialized wine-growing business and began bottling and self-marketing. Emil Kreutzenberger had today's manor building built in the New Objectivity style at a new location at the eastern entrance to the town in 1929, based on a design by the civil engineer Otto Prott from Grünstadt . The family later dedicated a label line for their wine bottles to the Prott design drawing.
The increasing sales of wine and changed production processes led to plans for an extension from 2002 onwards. Under the direction of the Oppenheim architecture professor Heribert Hamann , a new building was built between 2004 and 2007, whose reduced, cubic design language picks up on the functional style of the old building without imitating classic modernism. The idea of a "glass winery" was implemented, in which all wine production processes can be experienced by visitors. The building was awarded the first wine architecture prize in 2007 .
Description of the main building
The main building of the winery, created by Otto Prott, is a two-story plastered building in the New Objectivity style. It was built on the main street of Kindenheim. With a rounded left corner, the building refers to the town entrance in terms of urban planning. Prott staggered the structure with a broad risalit facing the street and the entrance inserted at an angle under a canopy. The east side defines a balcony with massive parapets.
The emphatically two-dimensional facade is horizontally structured by two ribbon windows and rectangular openings. The linear structure is further emphasized by functional details such as the railing of the roof terrace and the downpipe on the risalit. On the west side there is a lower economic part with a yard gate cut at right angles. As a "equally rare and high-quality example of a consistently modern implementation of the traditional building task in the first half of the 20th century", the building is listed as a cultural monument in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .
Wines
When it comes to grape varieties, white and red varieties are in balance. The white grape varieties include Riesling, Chardonnay, Grauer Burgunder, Grüner Silvaner, Müller-Thurgau, Huxelrebe, Kerner and Scheurebe, the red varieties Dornfelder, Pinot Noir, Heroldrebe, Pinot Noir and Cabernet Dorsa as well as the international varieties Cabernet franc, Merlot and Syrah . The red wines are fermented on the mash using the classic method and mature in wooden barrels or barriques. The white wines are carefully pressed using the most modern methods, clarified via sedimentation and then fermented in a controlled cooling in the stainless steel cellar until they are bottled.
Awards
- 2007: Wine Architecture Prize
- 2008: Silver and gold medal at the Austrian Wine Challenge Vienna
- Award "modern highlight of wine culture 2013" from the German Wine Institute (as the only winery in the Palatinate)
- numerous awards at state and federal level, including the DLG rarities trophy
- Recommendations in trade magazines, the Financial Times Germany and in the book European white wines
literature
- Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber (editor): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.2: Bad Dürkheim district. City of Grünstadt, Union communities Freinsheim, Grünstadt-Land, Hettenleidelheim. Werner, Worms 2006, p. 356