Weindorf Koblenz, Cultural heritage monument in Koblenz, Germany
Weindorf Koblenz is a group of four half-timbered guesthouses arranged around a shared courtyard with a pavilion, called the Marktplatz. Each house represents West German wine regions: Mosel, Saar, Ruwer on the west; Württemberg-Baden on the north; Mittelrhein, Ahr, Siebengebirge on the southeast; and Pfalz, Nahe, Rheingau on the southwest. The main entrance is on the south side, up a flight of steps between the last two houses.
The wine village was built for the Reichsausstellung Deutscher Wein, held from 8 August to 13 September 1925 as part of the Rhineland's 1000th-anniversary celebrations. Koblenz was chosen as a wine-growing city and centre of the wine trade. The timber-framed houses proved so popular that they were kept as a tourist attraction. Destroyed in 1944 air raids, they were rebuilt in simplified form by 1951.
Each of the four half-timbered houses bears the name of the German wine regions it represents: Mosel, Saar, Ruwer on the west side, Württemberg-Baden to the north, Mittelrhein, Ahr and Siebengebirge to the southeast, Pfalz, Nahe and Rheingau to the southwest. From 1925 to 1955 the village even had its own mayors, Peter Ferges, Jupp Flohr and Jupp Dommermuth, whose names and portraits hang on a bronze plaque inside the Mittelrheinhaus, donated by the Große Koblenzer Karnevalsgesellschaft.
The complex sits in the Rheinanlagen near the Pfaffendorfer Brücke, at Julius-Wegeler-Straße 2 in the Südliche Vorstadt. Four half-timbered houses ring a shared courtyard called the Marktplatz, with the main entrance on the south side above a flight of steps. The wine fountain stands on a meadow just south of the village.
Behind the wine village lies the Koblenzer Schnorbach-Brückstück, a small vineyard of 1,500 vines approved by the Landwirtschaftskammer Rheinland-Pfalz on 10 April 1951. It is named after post-war mayor Josef Schnorbach. Public funds of 662,641 DM covered the reconstruction and this replanted garden.
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