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Vereinigte Hospitien and the oldest German wine cellarPhoto: Deutsches Weininstitut
Vereinigte Hospitien and the oldest German wine cellar. In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte secularised the monasteries in and around Trier. He placed several Catholic hospices and old people's homes under a common administration. When they were founded, the Vereinigte Hospitien also took over the vineyards owned by the monasteries. In 1464, the cultivation of Riesling on the Moselle is mentioned for the first time in the books of the former hospital St. Jakob. Today, the Vereinigte Hospitien vineyard, which belongs to the regional Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter, still cultivates 25 hectares of vines on the Middle Moselle and the Saar, including the Trier Augenscheiner, the Wiltingen Hölle and the Serrig Schloss Saarfels Schlossberg as monopole vineyards. The Vereinigte Hospititen also own Germany's oldest wine cellar in the St. Irminen monastery, whose history can be traced back to Roman Trier (330 AD).