Viticulture in Franconia along the River Main: human and natural influences since AD 700
Winfried Schenk
Abstract Viticulture plays a particularly important role in the land use of Franconia along River Main (Mainfranconia, FRG), because its influence both on landscape and culture region. Thus developments that have taken place there since first mention vineyards AD 770 frequently been described. Initially, such research seems to be thoroughly satisfactory, but much it fails cite primary source material, simply quotes from older literature, often uncritically. Moreover, generally consider findings agricultural, economic historical research. It is therefore appropriate, almost sixty years after basic source‐oriented work undertaken by geographer Weite (1934), once again take up question historico‐geographical development Franconian viticulture, beginnings present time. With rich background viticultural Germany, questions geography should concerned with relationships between natural human influences determining space‐time viticulture. This paper suggests viticulture was more varied differentiated than has suggested previous no reason adopt deterministic perspectives recently proposed some palaeo‐climatological Germany.
Journal of Wine Research