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Reading Court

A term that was particularly common in for a winery or estate that was common until the late Middle Ages, where pure grape growers delivered their to be processed into . In a broader sense, these are to be understood as predecessors of the (cooperative wineries). They were mostly run by monastic orders (see ). Especially in there were many of them. Today, for example, the vineyards , , , Kartäuserhof and (all ), as well as , , and (all ) reside at the location of such reading yards.

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