Röttgen

Röttgen

Single location (also in Röttgen) in the community Winningen (Cochem area) in the German wine-growing area Moselle . The name derives from the vernacular "Rödchen" (a "small clearance") from. The situation is relatively young. In Koblenz, situated Prussian soldiers had changed at the request of the mayor Winninger a large rock in a vineyard. In one of the many stone walls of the "Röttgen" inlaid white pebbles, the Year of call-year 1822nd The well-known wine estate owner Johann Philipp Bronner John (1792-1864) described the situation ten years after the completion of admiration and enthusiasm, as follows: By powder exploded, and many helping hands processed so that the whole now forms an excellent vineyard, the through art and human nature was wrung his hands were. The over-propelled walkers, it seems inconceivable how these individual Parthia between rocks scattered and often not even contiguous, only bebauet, or with fertilizers and the like can be provided, since they do not each other seem to be related, but the art has all the obstacles of Natural defeated.

The location provides an immersive image. Separated from the Moselle only by road and railway line, like swallows' nests grow small and tiny terraces out of the rocks and climb about 100 meters up the vineyard. The oriented to the south east of Vineyard in 75 to 180 meters above sea level with 40 to 75% slope covers nearly 12 hectares of vines on stony Devon slate soil with some red and blue arguments. Here is cultivated almost exclusively Riesling. Shares in a position to have as the wineries Baron Heddesdorff , Reiner Fries , Heymann-Lowenstein , Beate Knebel , Rüdiger Kroeber and Judge Richard .