Piesport

Piesport is a municipality in the district of Bernkastel -Wittlich, in Rhineland -Palatinate and the largest wine-growing village in the Mosel region. She is a member since 1 January 2012, the municipality of Bernkastel- Kues. Piesport is a nationally recognized tourist.

• 5.1 Structures
• 5.2 Moselloreley
• 5.3 Viticulture

Geography

Piesport consists of the districts:

The local church is surrounded by vineyards, meadows and woods, along a north ausbuchtenden Mosel loop in the Mosel Valley between Bernkastel -Kues and Trier, specifically between Minheim and Neumagen. The district Piesport is on the left, Eifel - sided riverbank. On the opposite, Hunsrück - sided, gently sloping side of the river lies the village of Müstert and a little further downstream, at the output of the loop, the district Reinsport. The higher-lying district to the church of St. Martin is Emmel. Ferres is slightly upstream on the left bank. Müstert was formerly only a few houses, and gather around the All Saints Chapel at the bridgehead of the lower of the two bridges Moselle. This district has grown together over the centuries with Emmel and clean sport and made up the administrative reform in 1969, the independent municipality Niederemmel. Through the district Niederemmel the B 53 Moselle road leads. Of these branches, the L 50 to the north of the Moselle bridge to Klausen and the L 156 south towards Neumagen -Dhron off on a manifold roundabout at the entrance from the direction Neumagen.

Climate

The annual rainfall is 737 mm. The deposits are located in the middle third of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 49 percent of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is February, the most rainfall comes in June. In June, falling 1.5 times more rainfall than in February. They vary only slightly and are extremely distributed evenly throughout the year. At only three percent of the weather stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

Origin of the name

It is assumed that there is a ford was at the site of the present town in Roman times by the Moselle, were able to drive at low water car through. This ford was the Mercurius Bigontius, a local deity, consecrated, hence the name Porto Pigontio derived from the gradually Piesport was. The Bigontius was also dedicated a shrine, which stood on the north, on the left side of the river on the mountainside and to the remembered today only the chapel house, which is popularly known also Michel Kirch ( position → 49.8881406372226.9281297922222 ). In Christian times it has been superseded by the Holy Archangel Michael consecrated church, which was witnessed in 1350 as a matrix ecclesia ( " Mother Church "). However, they built because of the long and arduous path to the vicarage Piesport on the Moselle, a new church under the patronage of St. Michael, the parish church of St. Michael.

History

The Romans settled in the region around Piesport. " As the ranks of an amphitheater " framed the vineyards to a place, wrote the poet Ausonius. Between the villages of Alt- Piesport Ferres and the largest Roman wine press was discovered in 1985 north of the Alps and partially reconstructed. It is the center of the second weekend of October, the annual Roman wine festival. 1950 in a sarcophagus in a burial ground near Niederemmel a Roman cage cup was found, which today is located in the Rheinische Landesmuseum Trier. Roman ruins are also the Roman road (L 157 ) at the level between Niederemmel and Morbach, at the hunting lodge Tonnkopf a Roman grave was found, and the Römerhof on the southern outskirts of Niederemmel.

The first mention of Piesport was 776 between 1506 and 1508 lost Piesport 82 of its 95 citizens by the plague. In the Middle Ages and the early modern period Piesport belonged to the Electorate of Trier. Beginning in 1794, the area was under French rule in 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946 it is part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

Today's church was ( 1,633 inhabitants) is newly formed on 7 June 1969 the dissolved municipalities Piesport (then 503 inhabitants) and Niederemmel.

On 1 January 2012, the municipality Neumagen -Dhron was disbanded as part of municipal and administrative reform and the local church Piesport incorporated into the municipality of Bernkastel- Kues.

Parish council

The local council in Piesport consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the local council:

Culture and sights

Structures

• St. Michael, built in the 18th century
• All Saints, Müstert, built in 1553. The name of the district goes back to the Latin monasterium. It is believed that here ( position → 49.8839117941676.92725271 ) in the 6th / 7th Century an ecclesiastical center, was the increasingly gained importance in the first phase of the Christianization of the area and was later responsible for the pastoral villages Piesport, Emmel and Müstert. Top 882 fell the parish Müstert probably the Norman storm victims. His responsibilities took over the Piesporter and Emmeler churches. The following documents have Müstert as Munster ( 1055 ), Munstre ( 1098 ), Monasterium ( 1179 ) and Münster (early 19th century) from. The present church dates from 1553 and was ordained in 1680. Two side altars and a wooden altar with two paintings ( Coronation of the Virgin and a Allerheiligendarstellung in the arch field between two pairs of Corinthian columns and wings of broken carved acanthus ) determine the interior.
• Roman wine press at the end of the hamlet Piesport towards Ferres ( position → 49.8858698619446.9114840030556 )

See also list of cultural monuments in Piesport

Moselloreley

On the left bank of the Moselle against Niederemmel is the natural monument Moselloreley, similar to the Loreley on the Rhine. The steeply from the Moselle 85 m high towering rock massif can downriver to no transport links; the steep bank not even accommodate a footpath. But at its very steep slopes are found scattered vineyards. In the 1930s, many mining was carried out for a decade. There is a hiking trail above the Mosel Loreley.

Viniculture

Piesport is influenced significantly by vineyards and with 413 hectares under vine by far the largest wine-growing town of Mosel. It is traditionally mainly grown Riesling. The village is home to the area of Bernkastel. The vineyards are located in the major site Michelberg. There are the following ten Piesporter individual layers:

• Günterslay
• Podium
• Falkenberg
• Goldtröpfchen
• Canon

• Schubertslay
• Grafenberg
• Garden
• Cross Wingert
• Hofberger

Theo Haart from Weingut Reinhold Haart Piesport was chosen by the magazine Gault Millau in November 2006 Winemaker of the Year 2007.

Personalities

• John Hau, was from 1765 to 1803 pastor of the parish of Michael in Piesport, brought about the historic turn of the re- cultivation of the Riesling grape in the wine Piesport. In his honor, wearing a fountain from 1983 in front of St. Michael's Church his name.
• Reinhard Hess (1904-1998), painter and Trier important glass-painter, created various stained glass windows of St. Martin's Church in Niederemmel
• Philipp lights of 1834-1870 was pastor of the parish of Michael in Piesport
• Winfried Weber ( * 1945), German archaeologist Christian and longtime director of the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum in Trier, was born in Piesport