The Wine Growing (vineyards)
by Peter Lang
Translated by Brad Schwebler
The wine cultivation in
Beschka was very important. Friedrich Scherer (vgl. Reg. No. 1630) reported that after the grapevines
were destroyed in 1890 by the grapevine louse, the farmers, on the advise of
Rev. Gretzmacher, took the wild American grapevines (Manticula and Portalis) and
grafted them onto the noble European grapevines. These grapevine stocks proved themselves to be resistant to the grapevine
louse and the wine cultivation blossomed in Beschka again. According to papers by Peter Ewinger (vgl. Reg. No. 458) about 13,000
hectoliters of wine was produced which according to today’s standards is worth
about 2.6 million Deutsch Marks. Besides that about 1000 hectoliters of Treberschnapps (schnapps made from
the skins of grapes) could be distilled annually.
[Published at
DVHH.org by Jody McKim Pharr, 2005]