Location and wine-growing region
Stammheim is a village of the Kolitzheim municipality in the Schweinfurt district in Bavaria. The place lies on the left bank of the Main in the Franconian part of the Franconian wine-growing region. Franconia is shaped by the transition from moderately cool suboceanic to subcontinental conditions, with hot, dry summers, an average of less than 550 millimetres of annual precipitation and a risk of winter and late frosts.
Wine-growing tradition and history
Stammheim is described as a historic wine-growing village. Around 1800, wine-growing was the most important foundation of life for the inhabitants. Historical records show wine tithes, a wine press of the Ebrach monastery, as well as a tithe cellar with tithe barn built around 1618 by the Benedictines of St. Stephan in Würzburg. A land consolidation of the vineyard plots from 1963 to 1965 helped to revive and intensify wine-growing.
Location and soils at the Eselsberg
The Stammheimer Eselsberg comprises sunny slopes falling towards the Main, predominantly with a southern to south-western orientation. As soil, shell limestone (muschelkalk) is documented; a local description additionally mentions a layer of loess over the shell limestone.
Grape varieties and wine styles
At the Stammheim Eselsberg, among others Silvaner, Müller-Thurgau, Bacchus, Kerner, Weißburgunder, Rieslaner, Scheurebe, Domina and Dornfelder are documented. Further plantings associated with the site include Regent and Gewürztraminer. The range extends from white quality wines through dry wines, Kabinett and Spätlese to Beerenauslesen, as well as red wines from Domina and Dornfelder. A Weißburgunder from the Stammheimer Eselsberg was selected in 2023 as the district wine of the Schweinfurt district.
