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Calmont

single vineyard between the two municipalities of Bremm and Eller (Cochem Castle area) in the German Moselle wine-growing region. Excavations on the Calmont ridge prove that viticulture was already practised here by the Romans around the turn of the century. A Roman mountain sanctuary from the second century was located on the mountain. Extensive archaeological excavations began in 2005. The Gallo-Roman temple discovered in the process was reconstructed and rebuilt. The Roman poet Venantius Fortunatus (530-610) described the Calmont in a poem during a boat trip on the Moselle around 588. The name goes back either to the Latin "calvus mons" (bare mountain, rock) or "calidus mons" (hot mountain), or to the Celtic "kal" (hard = Felsenberg). Other single vineyard sites in Bremm are Abtei Klosterstuben, Frauenberg, Laurentiusberg and Schlemmertröpfchen.

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