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single vineyard in the municipality of Freyburg in the German wine-growing region of Saale-Unstrut. It was only combined at the beginning of the 1990s as single vineyard from the formerly independent sites Abtei, Haineberg, Schlossberg and Schweigenberg. The name goes back to a legend about Landgrave Ludwig the Iron (1128-1172). Around 1170, he punished the oppression of his peasants by noblemen by harnessing the offenders to a plough and having them plough the stony fields in front of his castle. The vineyards, which face south-east to south-south-west at an altitude of 110 to 220 metres above sea level with a slope of 25 to 45%, cover 14 hectares of vines. The soils consist of shell limestone interspersed with loess and red mottled sandstone at the bottom of the valley. The varieties cultivated are Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Riesling, Silvaner, Traminer and Zweigelt. The Frölich-Hake, Lützkendorf and Pawis wineries, for example, have shares in the site.

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