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Schloß Schwabsburg

Vineyard site

Schloß Schwabsburg is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Rheinhessen in Germany, covering 53 ha in Nierstein, Schwabsburg. It makes up 30.6% of the Großlage Auflangen. Regional bedrock: siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. It lies 2.2 km west of Nierstein and 13 km south of Mainz.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Rheinhessen
Area
53 ha
Extent N–S × E–W
1.1 × 1.31 km
Centre
49.8686° N, 8.3056° E
Region
Rheinhessen
Bereich
Bereich Nierstein
Großlage
Auflangen

Where it is

Nearest town
2.2 km west of Nierstein
Nearest city
13 km south of Mainz 222,889 people
To the sea
356 km
Rivers nearby
Rhine (3.4 km)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation
106–178 m
Mean elevation
142 m
Mean slope
10.1° (18 %)
Steepest tenth
above 23°
Faces
south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 56,431 elevation cells of about 3 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Vintages: Mosel and German Riesling

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Atlas editorial scores: a consensus of widely published vintage reports, not one critic's view. Scores for 2023 and 2024 are early and can change as the wines develop. Scale 1 to 5.

Bedrock

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Gemarkungen · 1

Neighbours

Sources

Landwirtschaftskammer Rheinland-Pfalz, Weinbergslagen (dl-de/by-2-0)

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