Wehlenon theMoselle
A small village with a great name: facing the sundial, home to the original houses of Joh. Jos. Prüm, S. A. Prüm and Studert-Prüm.
Wehlen is a small district of Bernkastel-Kues on the Middle Moselle. In the world of wine it is one of the most important names in Germany — not least thanks to the Prüm family.
01The village
Wehlen lies on the bank of the Moselle, facing the Sonnenuhr vineyard. Recorded since the 8th century, it was for centuries a wine village of the Electorate of Trier; today it belongs to Bernkastel-Kues.
02Wehlen and wine
Wine has always shaped Wehlen. In the Middle Ages its vineyards belonged to ecclesiastical and secular lords, among them the Trier abbey of St. Maximin. With secularisation around 1800 they passed into private hands — the start of the rise of middle-class wine families such as the Prüms. In 1803 Johann Philipp Prüm and three neighbours bought the Elector's press house (moselriesling.com).
03The Prüms in Wehlen
Wehlen is the family's heartland. Here stand the original houses of the most important Prüm estates: Joh. Jos. Prüm in its riverside house, S. A. Prüm on the Uferallee and Studert-Prüm in the historic Maximinhof.
04The Wehlen sundial
The Wehlener Sonnenuhr is the Moselle's most famous single vineyard. It owes its name to the sundial that Jodocus Prüm had placed in the vineyard in 1842.
Read on at moselriesling.com