Würzburger Stein

The Würzburg stone is a German wine-growing area.

Geography

The steep slope extends south slope scalloped north of the city of Würzburg on the typical for the main triangle limestone floor, situated at an altitude 210-270 meters above sea level. NN, comprises 85 acres and has a slope between 30 and 65 percent. The Würzburg stone is the largest contiguous single location in Germany.

The high-speed railway route between Hanover and Würzburg crosses the stone in the mountain tunnel.

The stone - wine - path

Through the stone today leads the stone wine - trail, a four kilometer long panoramic trail that starts at the winery on the stone at the end of Red Cross walkways. He leads in a more moderate slope to Steinburg up, extends from there west to the vineyard Pfaff mountain and then runs above the vineyard stone to the Bismarck tower and from there very steeply down to the vineyard on the stone. On presentation boards, the varieties, the floors, the concave mirror effect of the vineyards, the requirements for measuring wine and thoughts of famous people for vineyard stone be documented. The view on the Main, the opposite Fortress Marienberg and the pilgrimage chapel Käppele and the city are remarkable. The vineyards of the great wineries are marked.

History

The Ebracher Abt Alberich Degen planted in this vineyard in 1665 for the first time the Silvaner grape, which had been brought from the House in 1659 after Franken Castellammare. In 1726 the great stone wine the civil hospital was first bottled in since typical for Franconia bocksbeutel. In the cellar of the Civil Hospital supports a 1540s stone wine. The English wine critic Hugh Johnson tasted this white wine in 1961 and declared that he was " still alive " and that " even guessed his German origin " could be. But then he oxidized very quickly in the glass. Hugh Johnson continued: " He was on his mind and turned to vinegar in our glasses ."

The Würzburg stone is now about a third each of the three Würzburg tradition wineries Civil Hospital, Julius Hospital and Interstate Hofkeller. Smaller parcels are owned by the winery on stone Ludwig Knoll and the winery Reiss. The centerpiece of the so-called stone harp, is exclusively owned by the community hospital.

Literary reference

The rare combination of slope, slope direction, type of terrain and river nearby offers optimal conditions, as this popular quatrain reveals:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote in a letter to his wife Christiane about the Würzburg Stone: "No other wine wants to taste me and I am annoyed when I lack my favorite drink. "

By Heinrich von Kleist, Ricarda Huch and Kurt Tucholsky is also known that they appreciated the coincidence of flow, location and wine.