In
Beschka,
the wine cultivation was very
important. Friedrich Scherer (vgl.
Reg. No. 1630) reported that
after the grapevines were
destroyed in 1890 by the
grapevine louse, the farmers, onthe 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 Treberschnaps (schnaps made from the skins of grapes)
could be distilled annually.
Translated
by Brad
Schwebler
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History
of the Village
God Bless
Our Home,
Beschka Homeland by Peter Lang.
