Wickerer King Wilhelmsberg
The Wickerer König Wilhelmsberg is a vineyard in the Flörsheim district of Wicker in the Rheingau . It belongs to the large Daubhaus site and has 2.4 hectares of vineyards .
Name origin
After the war of 1866 , the states of Kurhessen and Nassau annexed by Prussia in 1866 , the former Hesse-Homburg and the Biedenkopf ( Hessian hinterland ) and Vöhl districts of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Free City of Frankfurt and the Bavarian districts of Gersfeld and Orb became the Prussian in 1868 Hesse-Nassau Province .
The then owner of the Wickerer Berg vineyard and purveyor to the court of the Prussian King and later the first German Emperor Wilhelm I , Georg Kroeschel , then renamed the vineyard to King Wilhelmsberg with the permission of Wilhelm I, who valued Wickerer wine .
As a reminder, in 1875 an 8 m high, tapering Ionic stone column with a cast-iron Prussian eagle was erected by the Fulda sculptor Adam Kramer (1826–1885) for 1,500 guilders . The round column now bears a republican eagle, the former Prussian eagle was destroyed at the end of the war. The base of the monument bears a relief of Kaiser Wilhelm I with a laurel wreath on one side, and gold-colored lettering is attached to the other three sides.
Vineyard location and characteristics
The Wickerer König Wilhelmsberg owes its origin to the Wickerbach , which sank into the subsoil during the Ice Ages and thus created a slope as the basis of every good wine location. This is oriented towards the southwest and therefore optimally to the sun and is one of the premium vineyards ?? First plant Rheingau ??.
Strong and fruity wines with distinctive, well-integrated acidity grow on the old-tertiary Latvian soil, which consists of heavy clay marl and has a very high nutrient potential . They need maturing time and have a long lifespan.
Ownership
The Hück family in Hochheim am Main has owned the vineyard alone since 1928 .