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History

Already in the early middle ages many pilgrims came to Partenheim to visit the famous pilgrimage church.

Already in the early middle ages many pilgrims came to Partenheim to visit the famous pilgrimage church. The street name "Gasspforte" reminds of the old town fortification of Partenheim. One can assume that this street was holding an entrance to our village. To pass you had to pay a fee at the gate.

This has changed basically as the years passed. Although a lot of people come to see our beautiful church, the passage nowadays is free and visitors get a very good wine at our vineyard in the Gasspforte.

In the year 1890 the founder of our estate, Georg Boller, built the now existing house and agronomical annexe. At this time almost all kinds of crops were grown on the estate.

There was grain, harvested with sickle and flailed by hand, potatoes, vegetables and of course live-stock: cows, horses, pigs and poultry.

Yes, and for sure there already was the wine, too!

The industrialisation that happened in the last 100 years didn't spare the agriculture. Costly manual work can be minimized thanks to technique, yield and quality optimised.

Nowadays it's possible to take advantage of the ideal time to plant, cultivate and harvest the wines. What might have taken days or even weeks - and had to be done regardless of the weather, can take place in a few hours under perfect conditions.

All this improved the quality of the wines enormously! But the connected specialisation changed the structure of most estates. So today you hardly find a farmer that grow a big variety of crops and maybe have an additional stable with animals.

Monoculture and intensive livestock-farming are logical consequences of this changes. The connected problems you can read in the head-lines almost every day. Over fertilization f the grounds, uncounted diseases among animals on big estates… the ecological balance shifts and the consumers are irritated more and more.

For this reasons there is one big question: is a step back maybe a step forward?

We think: definitely YES!

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