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Kirchenstück

Vineyard site

Kirchenstück is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Rheinhessen in Germany, covering 64.8 ha in Hechtsheim. It makes up 5.1% of the Großlage Sankt Alban. Regional bedrock: mixed sedimentary rocks. It lies 2.4 km south of Mainz and 10 km west of Rüsselsheim am Main.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Rheinhessen
Area
64.8 ha
Separate plots
10
Extent N–S × E–W
3.33 × 1.64 km
Centre
49.9609° N, 8.2870° E
Region
Rheinhessen
Bereich
Bereich Nierstein
Großlage
Sankt Alban

Where it is

Nearest town
2.4 km south of Mainz
Nearest city
10 km west of Rüsselsheim am Main 59,730 people
To the sea
349 km
Rivers nearby
Rhine (2.7 km) · Main (3.6 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
139–190 m
Mean elevation
176 m
Mean slope
3.6° (6 %)
Steepest tenth
above 8°
Faces
south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 69,514 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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