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Liebfrau

Vineyard site

Liebfrau is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Rheinhessen in Germany, covering 187.5 ha in Volxheim. It makes up 5.8% of the Großlage Rheingrafenstein. Regional bedrock: unconsolidated sediments. It lies 4.4 km south-east of Bad Kreuznach and 37 km south-west of Wiesbaden.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Rheinhessen
Area
187.5 ha
Extent N–S × E–W
2.32 × 2.3 km
Centre
49.8276° N, 7.9245° E
Region
Rheinhessen
Bereich
Bereich Bingen
Großlage
Rheingrafenstein

Where it is

Nearest town
4.4 km south-east of Bad Kreuznach
Nearest city
37 km south-west of Wiesbaden 288,850 people
To the sea
337 km
Rivers nearby
Glan (5.5 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
137–202 m
Mean elevation
164 m
Mean slope
3.4° (6 %)
Steepest tenth
above 6°
Faces
south-east

Measured over the whole outline on 49,660 elevation cells of about 6 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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