- Kröv
The yard was a monastic estate of the Grey Sisters, who belonged to the monastery of St. Nicholas in Trier. Various girls and young women bequeathed their inheritance to the convent when they became nuns there. As early as 1765, viticulture here was converted to Riesling and was thus far ahead of its time.
Unlike most of the noble and monastic wine farms in Kröv, this house is built in the half-timbered style typical of the Moselle on a massive basement. The residential house was completely rebuilt in 1733, with reuse of the old half-timbering, on the old site, and the winepress house was renovated. At the beginning of the 19th century the former winepress house (right part of the building Ehrenmalstraße) was rebuilt into a residential house. The Grey Sisters of the Convent of St. Nicholas in Trier were the owners of this magnificent wine farm and the associated vineyards until secularization. Various girls from Kröv and Kinheim had contributed their inheritance to the convent when they became nuns there. At that time, most of the vineyards were leased to feudatories. These were converted to Riesling cultivation from 1765 onwards, almost a generation before the promotion by Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus.
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