History
There is evidence that wine has been produced in Franconia for over 1000 years. In an old document from the year 777 there is a note of a winery being gifted from Charlemagne to the monastery of Fulda. This is the town of Hammelburg. In medieval times the area under cultivation grew strongly up to 40000 ha. In the 20th century it decreased to just over 2000 ha.
Today about 6100 ha of land is used for growing wine. The area stretches from Bamberg to Aschaffenburg. The climate is called continental with Mediterranean influence. Quite often there are strong winters and temperatures under 0 degrees Celsius in the spring. Therefore wine is grown mainly in especially protected places usually along the hills of the River Main and the Steigerwald.
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