The "Geisenheim Research Institute" in the town of Geisenheim in the Rheingau region of Hesse (Germany) was founded in 1872 by the German banker Baron Eduard von Lade (1817-1904) as the "Royal Prussian Teaching Institute for Fruit and Wine Growing". The son of a wine merchant, he had made a considerable fortune in the export, banking and arms business and retired to Geisenheim in 1861. He had a luxurious country estate built in the neoclassical style called "Monrepos" (French for "my retirement home") with extensive parkland near the banks of the Rhine and devoted himself primarily to fruit growing and the cultivation of new fruit varieties.
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