Louis Guntrum winery

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Louis Guntrum Weinkellerei GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1824
Seat Nierstein GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Louis Konstantin Guntrum (Managing Director)
Dirk Roth (Cellar Master)
Website www.guntrum.de
As of June 30, 2015

The Louis Guntrum winery GmbH based in Nierstein is in 1824 Bensheim founded winery with vineyard in Rheinhessen wine region . It is still owned by the family today.

history

The Guntrum family has been mentioned in a document for five generations as coopers and innkeepers in Wörrstadt since 1648 and on the Hessian Bergstrasse from 1792.

After training in cooperage and cellar technology in France and Switzerland , Ludwig Philipp Guntrum acquired a house with large cellars in Bensheim on February 24, 1824 and opened a cooperage with wine trade and the Zur Sonne restaurant there together with his fiancée, Catharina Sperling . In addition to the wine warehouse in Bensheim for Rheinhessen, he and his father-in-law, the wine merchant Sperling from Mannheim, ran a wine warehouse for the Rhine Palatinate growing region from 1833 .

At the world exhibition in Paris in 1867 , wines sold by Ludwig Philipp Guntrum were exhibited in the joint presentation of Bergstrasse wines. On February 18, 1863, the sons Jean and Gustav Guntrum received power of attorney for the Louis Guntrum wine shop in Bensheim . In 1868 they took over the business and after the death of Ludwig Philipp Guntrum in 1869 they acquired the first vineyards in Bensheim. With the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, wines could be sold to all parts of the German Empire and abroad. From then on, the company concentrated on viticulture and wine trading. As a result, the inn was closed in 1874. Guntrum wines were presented again at the following world exhibitions in Vienna in 1873 , Paris in 1900 and Chicago in 1893 .

After completing his commercial training in England and France, Gustav Guntrum's eldest son, Louis Jean George Guntrum, joined the company as a partner in 1901. After Gustav and Jean Guntrum had each built a villa in Bensheim, the latter left the company in 1902. In the autumn of the same year, the first sales representatives were hired and the network of representatives was further expanded in the following years. From then on, Louis JG Guntrum initiated the sale exclusively via wholesalers . Gustav Guntrum died in 1907. On July 30, 1909, Louis JG Guntrum acquired the manor house and the winery on Wormser Strasse in Oppenheim, along with approx. 7 hectares of vineyard, from the widow Hermann Egly and expanded it in 1910 with a new wine press . This was followed in 1912 by the takeover of Wallot'schen Kellerei in Oppenheim and in 1917 by the purchase of a large house with an adjacent vineyard on Rheinallee in Nierstein. Because Louis Guntrum was deployed in the war, Jean Guntrum was once again available to advise the company from 1914 to 1918.

With the end of the First World War , it was decided to run the business in Bensheim and Oppenheim separately, and Gustav Guntrum, the 19 years younger brother of Louis JG Guntrum, took over the Bensheim headquarters of the company. With Louis JG Guntrum the wholesale business remained in Oppenheim. In the summer of 1919, he and some of the employees moved into a new office in the former Bembé villa in Nierstein. Despite inflation and the economic crisis , the two brothers were able to successfully continue their company in the eighth generation. In order to expand the business, Louis JG Guntrum built a large, modern winery between 1923 and 1924 on the vineyard adjacent to the Niersteiner Haus.

After Louis JG Guntrum's two older sons had finished their commercial apprenticeship, the eldest, Hermann Guntrum, went to London to join Southard & Co , who represented the company in England. The other, Hanns Louis Guntrum, went to French-speaking Switzerland after completing his apprenticeship at the Bremen trading company Oldorb und Jürgens . On January 1, 1935, both of them joined the company as the ninth generation. Hermann Guntrum managed the export business, Hanns Louis Guntrum took over the winery and the winery. Distribution and wholesale were split between Louis JG Guntrum and his two sons. Via the companies Louis Guntrum Weingut und Weingroßkellerei as well as JA Harth , which had since been taken over, was exported to Finland, Brazil, Ceylon, Burma, Poland, England, Ireland and the USA in the following years. With around 30 hectares of vineyards, the company was also one of the largest wine-growing operations in the Nierstein-Oppenheim area. In 1939 Louis JG Guntrum acquired a nearby property at Rheinallee 41 in Nierstein for his son Hans Louis.

With the beginning of the Second World War , the export business collapsed, but could be compensated by sales to the occupied territories and to the Wehrmacht . All of Louis Guntrum's sons were drafted. Hanns Louis Guntrum died in 1943. After the end of the war, Louis JG Guntrum left the company and the two brothers Hermann and Lorenz Guntrum shared the management of the company, with Hermann being responsible for exports and Lorenz managing the winery, the winery and the domestic business . Louis Guntrum's villa in Nierstein and the property on Wormser Strasse in Oppenheim were confiscated by the Allies in 1945 and only released again in 1949.

In the mid-1950s, sales contacts, mainly to England, were re-established and the company exported to over 80 countries. At the beginning of the 1960s, Hanns Joachim Louis Guntrum, the son of Hermann Guntrum, spent a year in the USA and sold the wines of the Louis Guntrum company there. During this time the cellar vaults of the manor house were extended under the B9 . Louis JG Guntrum died in 1964. In 1965, Hanns Joachim Louis Guntrum was the tenth generation to become a member of the management team; his cousin Peter Louis Guntrum, son of Hans Louis Guntrum, followed a year later. At the beginning of the 1970s, a new high-bay warehouse was added to the manor building as a bottle warehouse and Peter Louis Guntrum opened his own sales office in Great Britain and in 1974 a new wine press on Wörrstädter Strasse was put into operation, which was also connected underground to the main building. In 1976 Herrmann Guntrum left the company and his brother Lorenz Guntrum shared management with his son Hanns Joachim Louis Guntrum and his nephew Peter Louis Guntrum. At that time, sales to England and the Canadian provinces, Alberta and British Columbia alone accounted for around 50% of total sales.

In 1981 Peter Louis Guntrum resigned as managing partner and founded his own wine distribution company. In 1982 the company relocated its viticulture from Oppenheim to Wörrstädter Straße in Nierstein. With the glycol wine scandal in 1985, major customers such as British Airways terminated their business relationships and the export share fell significantly. In return, Louis Guntrum Weinkellerei GmbH managed to open up the Scandinavian market in the early 1990s and gain a foothold in Saudi Arabia with non-alcoholic wines and sparkling wines .

In 1996 the viticulture moved into the cellar under the high-bay warehouse. In 1998, Louis Konstantin, the son of Hanns Joachim Louis Guntrum, joined Louis Guntrum Weinkellerei GmbH as a managing partner and then spent two years in South, Central and North America to revive the local market. Peter Louis Guntrum, who left in 1981, died in 1999.

2003 leased Hanns Joachim Louis Guntrum some areas in the layers Oppenheimer Protect hut Oppenheimer Sackträger, Niersteiner hell Niersteiner mountain church and Niersteiner Pettenthal to the winery Eckhart Gröhl and brought them as assets to the newly formed by him Evang. Hanns Joachim Louis Guntrum Foundation . In the same year he retired from the company. Viticulture and bottle storage were then relocated to the manor building on Rheinallee and Louis Konstantin Guntrum managed the company alone in the eleventh generation.

In 2009 the company was restructured. Louis Guntrum GmbH changed its name to Louis Guntrum Weinkellerei GmbH. After Lorenz Guntrum left the winery in 1998, the Louis Guntrum winery only had one partner and became a partnership with Weingut Louis Guntrum, owner Louis Konstantin Guntrum eK. In the following years, the focus was again more on wine tourism and the concept of a vineyard implemented. Internationally, the Asian market moved into focus. In 2010, for example, the company took part in VINEXPO in Hong Kong as an exhibitor .

The former managing director, Hanns Joachim Louis Guntrum died on March 30, 2017.

Companies

The core business of Louis Guntrum Weinkellerei GmbH is a winery that exports wines from the region to more than 60 countries around the world. In addition, an event location with catering is operated. There is also the Louis Guntrum winery, owner Louis Konstantin Guntrum eK. Viticulture generates only ten percent of sales.

Every year around 80,000 to 100,000 bottles from our own vineyards are filled. The wines are sold under the names Guntrum Classic and Villa Guntrum.

The winery has a grape in Gault-Millau , Eichelmann awards a star. In the Falstaff , the wines receive up to 92 points.

Grape varieties and locations

The property mainly includes vineyards in Nierstein and Oppenheim with a total of eleven hectares: Niersteiner Oelberg, Niersteiner Orbel, Niersteiner Bergkirche, Niersteiner Pettenthal, Niersteiner Rehbach and Niersteiner Paterberg, as well as Oppenheimer Schützenhütte, Oppenheimer Sackträger and Oppenheimer Herrenberg. The white wine varieties include Riesling , Rivaner , Silvaner and Pinot Blanc . Red wines are made from the varieties Pinot Noir , Dornfelder and Portugieser.

Awards

The winery was in the Rheinhessen preliminary decision of the 2013 for the concept of a vineyard, directly on the Rhine and its implementation Great Wine Capitals carried out contest Best of Wine Tourism Award awarded in the category Wine tourism service.

Historic barrels

The Guntrum family has been cultivating the tradition of having barrels with specially carved barrel bottoms made at weddings of their family members since around 1830. In 1949, for the company's 125th anniversary, the sculptor Benno Wiese from Mainz commissioned a carved barrel base. For the 150th anniversary in 1974, the company received a historic wine barrel with a carved bottom from 1868 from the cooper's guild. Some of these barrels are now protected as cultural assets.

Historic Buildings

The following buildings built or acquired by the company or the members of the Guntrum family in the course of history are now under monument protection:

  • Bembé-Villa Rheinallee 60 in Nierstein. Built in 1895 in neo -Gothic and neo-Renaissance styles , based on plans by the architect Franz von Hoven .
  • Farm building Rheinallee 62 in Nierstein. Built in 1895 according to plans by the architect Franz von Hoven.
  • Louis Guntrum winery, Rheinallee 62 in Nierstein. Built in 1925 by Louis JG Guntrum in the Baroque style of the homeland based on plans by the architect Reinhold Weisse. The company's headquarters to this day.
  • Villa Jean Guntrum Darmstädter Strasse 15 in Bensheim. Built in 1902 by Jean Guntrum based on plans by the architect Heinrich Metzendorf .
  • Villa Gustav Guntrum Darmstädter Strasse 17 in Bensheim. Built in 1902 by Gustav Guntrum based on plans by the architect Heinrich Metzendorf.
  • Villa Wormser Str. 46 in Oppenheim. Built in 1892 - cellars partly before 1689. Acquired in 1909 by Louis JG Guntrum and until 1965 the seat of the Hermann Guntrum family.
  • Kelterhaus Wormser Str. 46 in Oppenheim. Built in 1910 by Louis JG Guntrum over an older two-story wine cellar according to plans by the architect Waldschmidt.
  • Wallot'sche Kellerei Rathofstrasse 25 in Oppenheim. Late Gothic architectural parts; double barrel vaulted cellar. Acquired in 1912 from Louis JG Guntrum. Today the Dahlem winery.
  • Guntrum house in Nierstein. Built by Louis JG Guntrum 1929–1931 based on plans by the architect Georg Fehleisen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Louis Guntrum winery. In: Gault-Millau . 2017, accessed April 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Gerhard Eichelmann : Louis Guntrum winery. Verlag Mondo Heidelberg, accessed on April 6, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Christian Thiel: The history of the house Louis Guntrum. History Association Nierstein eV, April 2010, accessed on April 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Guntrum, Gustav. In: Hessian biography. Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies, accessed on April 8, 2017 .
  5. ^ Official catalog of the exhibition of the German Reich . Königliche Geheime Ober-Hofbuchdr., 1873, p.  167 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ Collection of the German trade registers . M. DuMont-Schauberg, 1863, p.  74 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ The Official Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, May 1st to October 30th, 1893 . WB Conkey Company, 1893, p.  864 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ Evang. Hanns Joachim Louis Guntrum Foundation. In: Foundation database. Association of German Foundations e. V., accessed April 8, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Foundation. Eckehart Gröhl winery, accessed on April 8, 2017 .
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  11. ↑ a b Best Of Wine Tourism Award 2013. City of Mainz , accessed on April 6, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Hong Kong: German exhibition stand surrounded. In: press release. German Wine Institute , May 12, 2010, accessed April 7, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine . April 15, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2017 .
  14. ^ A b c Nicole Hauger: Nierstein: Louis Guntrum winery. In: Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved April 6, 2017 .
  15. ↑ a b Louis Guntrum winery. In: Gault-Millau . 2010, accessed April 6, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Louis Guntrum winery. In: Falstaff. Retrieved April 7, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Louis Guntrum winery. In: Riesling.de. Retrieved April 6, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Louis Guntrum Winery Natural viticulture in perfection. In: Focus . Retrieved April 7, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Kathrin Panne: Carving art on wine barrel bottoms: An investigation into the modern descendants of historical craftsmanship with special consideration of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse . Society for Folklore Rhineland-Palatinate, 1989, ISBN 3-926052-03-1 , p. 229/252 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  20. ↑ a b c d e f g General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District Mainz-Bingen. Mainz 2020, pp. 75, 89 and 91 (PDF; 7.9 MB).
  21. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (ed.): Villa Jean Guntrum In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  22. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Villa Gustav Guntrum In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse