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Pfaffenberg

Vineyard site

Pfaffenberg is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Pfalz in Germany, covering 569.2 ha in Mörzheim. It makes up 18.3% of the Großlage Herrlich. Regional bedrock: mixed sedimentary rocks. It lies 4 km south-west of Landau in der Pfalz and 21 km south of Neustadt an der Weinstraße.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Pfalz
Area
569.2 ha
Separate plots
3
Extent N–S × E–W
2.68 × 3.89 km
Centre
49.1669° N, 8.0901° E
Region
Pfalz
Bereich
Ber. Südl. Weinstraße
Großlage
Herrlich

Where it is

Nearest town
4 km south-west of Landau in der Pfalz
Nearest city
21 km south of Neustadt an der Weinstraße 53,984 people
To the sea
395 km

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation
156–239 m
Mean elevation
197 m
Mean slope
3.6° (6 %)
Steepest tenth
above 6°
Faces
east

Measured over the whole outline on 584,645 elevation cells of about 3 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Vintages: Mosel and German Riesling

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Atlas editorial scores: a consensus of widely published vintage reports, not one critic's view. Scores for 2023 and 2024 are early and can change as the wines develop. Scale 1 to 5.

Bedrock

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Gemarkungen · 1

Neighbours

Sources

Landwirtschaftskammer Rheinland-Pfalz, Weinbergslagen (dl-de/by-2-0)

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