Krempel Wholesale Beverages

Originally the Schmoll & Boerner Winery, these days Krempel Wholesale Beverages, Schottstraße

The mediaeval cellar located close to the former Schott gate and originally belonging to the Schmoll & Boerner Winery is regarded as one of the most impressive vaults architecturally that the town has to offer.

Numerous sandstone pillars reinforced with iron bands support a harmonious groined vault above the cellar floor, which in places still retains its cobbled ("Katzenköpfen") surface. The sandstone barrel stores would have held a huge number of tun casks. A passage, in places carved out of the slate bedrock, leads under the street to the former bottle store on the other side.

The year given above the door - 1843 - merely indicates a change in ownership associated with the construction of the commercial premises above. The cellar is believed to date from the middle of the 14th century. At the very least, records exist of many tun casks being loaded by the wine barrel handlers’ guild at this cellar for transportation upstream along the Rhine’s "Alte Straße" to the fair in Frankfurt.