Karthäuserhof

Hidden in a side valley, not visible from the Ruwertalstraße, lies the Karthäuserhof near Eitelsbach.
Here, the Carthusian monks from Trier built a farm with extensive residential and economic buildings in the 14th century, after Elector Balduin had gifted them the associated land. When the charterhouse, located west of the city gates, was destroyed during the turmoil of war in 1674, the monks retreated to their farm in Eitelsbach until they could move into a new monastery in Konz in 1680. In the 18th century, they further expanded the farm into a vineyard. Like most ecclesiastical properties, the Karthäuserhof was nationalized during the secularization and sold by the French domain administration in 1811.

The residential building was adorned with neo-Gothic facades around 1850. Inside, there is a remarkable late Gothic wooden spiral staircase that leads through three floors. In the former economic building, a large structure from the 18th century now used for residential purposes, there is a valuable colored wallpaper in a room on the upper floor, manufactured in 1823 in a factory near Lyon.

The Karthäuserhof is the eighth oldest vineyard in the world and has been the cradle of world-famous Rieslings for centuries. It was founded in 1335 by Carthusian monks who received the estate as a gift from Elector Balduin of Luxembourg and operated it as a vineyard until the secularization. Since 1811, the Karthäuserhof has been owned by the Rautenstrauch-Tyrell family in its seventh generation.

As the buildings are inhabited, they cannot be visited.