single vineyard in Homburg am Main, part of the market town of Triefenstein (Maindreieck area) on the left bank of the Main in the German region of Franconia. The historical part (picture) was placed under a preservation order in 1981. The name goes back to the Celtic "Calemont", which means "bare mountain" or "hot mountain" and refers to the sparse vegetation on the summits. The vineyard was probably planted by Benedictine monks as early as the 9th century. It was first mentioned in a document in 1102 with the founding of the Triefenstein monastery. During the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), the Swedes plundered the monastery in 1631. At that time, over 100,000 litres of wine were stored in the cellars (approx. 150 barrels of 720 litres each), a large proportion of which probably came from Kallmuth. The last provost of Triefenstein, Melchior Zösch (1725-1802), had the retaining walls built at the end of the 18th century.
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