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Sternberg

Vineyard site

Sternberg is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Rheinhessen in Germany, covering 133.5 ha in Pleitersheim. It makes up 4.1% of the Großlage Rheingrafenstein. Regional bedrock: mixed sedimentary rocks. It lies 6.2 km east of Bad Kreuznach and 35 km south-west of Wiesbaden.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Rheinhessen
Area
133.5 ha
Extent N–S × E–W
1.56 × 1.84 km
Centre
49.8309° N, 7.9519° E
Region
Rheinhessen
Bereich
Bereich Bingen
Großlage
Rheingrafenstein

Where it is

Nearest town
6.2 km east of Bad Kreuznach
Nearest city
35 km south-west of Wiesbaden 288,850 people
To the sea
338 km

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

Terrain

Elevation
131–183 m
Mean elevation
157 m
Mean slope
3.1° (5 %)
Steepest tenth
above 5°
Faces
north

Measured over the whole outline on 141,255 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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