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Himmelthal

Vineyard site

Himmelthal is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Rheinhessen in Germany, covering 65.9 ha in Guntersblum. It makes up 17.4% of the Großlage Vögelsgärten. Regional bedrock: mixed sedimentary rocks. It lies 9.4 km north of Osthofen and 22 km south of Mainz.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Rheinhessen
Area
65.9 ha
Separate plots
4
Extent N–S × E–W
1.31 × 0.97 km
Centre
49.7879° N, 8.3402° E
Region
Rheinhessen
Bereich
Bereich Nierstein
Großlage
Vögelsgärten

Where it is

Nearest town
9.4 km north of Osthofen
Nearest city
22 km south of Mainz 222,889 people
To the sea
363 km
Rivers nearby
Rhine (4.7 km)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation
88–187 m
Mean elevation
124 m
Mean slope
5.9° (10 %)
Steepest tenth
above 11°
Faces
east

Measured over the whole outline on 70,159 elevation cells of about 3 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Vintages: Mosel and German Riesling

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Atlas editorial scores: a consensus of widely published vintage reports, not one critic's view. Scores for 2023 and 2024 are early and can change as the wines develop. Scale 1 to 5.

Bedrock

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Gemarkungen · 1

Neighbours

Sources

Landwirtschaftskammer Rheinland-Pfalz, Weinbergslagen (dl-de/by-2-0)

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