Caspari/Eggert Winery

The stone cellar belonging to the Caspari/Eggert Winery is without doubt one of the most interesting wine cellars to feature in the Traben-Trarbach underground tour.

It is one of several underground testimonies within Trarbach to the storage of wine in centuries past. Thanks to rock faces abutting the river bank, cellars were tunnelled straight into the bedrock of the mountains.

Through the inconspicuous entrance you enter a barrel vault almost immediately; it extends for approx. 30 metres, a row of some 40 tun casks lining the path on either side. The vault has been executed in unique fashion. The middle section shows off the bare slate rock face, while at the front and rear a true vault has been constructed, among other things to prevent rock falls.

The original intention was to extend the bottle cellar which branches off towards the rear to lead under the Protestant church and connect up with the double cellar beneath the Rittersaal. This project was abandoned when the explosions needed to tunnel further created such vibrations that it is said the church bells began to ring.