Single vineyard name in Germany, also used as a name component such as Karthäuserhofberg (Eitelsbach/Mosel) and Karthäuser Klosterberg (Monz/Mosel). The name refers to an earlier property or cultivation by the wine-growing monastic order of the Carthusians (Karthäuser).
The name goes back to the Carthusian monastery near the vineyard, which was founded in 1409 by the knight Erkinger von Seinsheim. The vineyards, which face...
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