Böcking Winery

Formerly the Böcking and Langguth Winery, now the Böcking Winery.

Although the Grevenburg wine cellars (built around 1350) could take 50 tun casks, the tithed income from the area was greater. This led to the construction between 1363 and 1364 of the "magazine on the Schottbach", which by 1370 was already being used to store wine.

In 1631, following the death of the last Count of Sponheim, the large cellar was sub-divided. The division remains to this day.

Johannes Hofmann, the chronicler who penned the "Trorbachischen Ehren-Säul", describes in 1669 the two parallel barrel vaults beneath the Rittersaal as "a double cellar, for storing of the lord’s wine".

At the beginning of the nineteenth century the "Rittersaal-Kellerei" was purchased and used jointly by the merchants Louis Böcking and Franz Langguth.

For over fifteen years, from 1860 onwards, Carl Wilhelm Langguth and Jules Kayser ran a sekt winery from these premises. During the mid-twentieth century the Böckings bought up the Langguth shares and expanded the storage capacity by installing several concrete tanks.

At the end of the 50 metre-long barrel store there is a tunnelled extension to the vault which features a brick-built bottle store.