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Freiburg (Germany)

State Viticultural Institute (Experimental and Research Institute for Viticulture and Wine Treatment) in Freiburg. It is located on the edge of the southern Black Forest in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Here, a wide range of practical research is carried out in the areas of vine plant biology, vine pests and vine diseases including corresponding defence measures (vine protection service) and implementation of official means testing, vine breeding and vine grafting, viticulture with viticultural technology, vine nutrition and greening management, site science and soil science, wine treatment, wine composition, wine analytics including fermentation/techniques and residue issues.

Freiburg (Deutschland) - Institutsgebäude

A large number of seminars and events are held for the various professional groups in the wine sector to provide further education and training. The next generation of professionals is promoted through training for winegrowers and wine coopers. Internships can also be organised. One focus is the breeding of new wine grapes and table grapes with the aim of improving quality and resistance, especially against fungi (PIWI varieties= fungus-resistant), but also against other diseases. These included Baron, Bronner, Cabernet Cantor, Cabernet Carbon, Cabernet Carol, Cabernet Cortis, Calastra, Decora, Deckrot, Freiminer, Freisamer, Galante, Ganita, Garantos, Hecker, Helios, Johanniter, Kolor, Merzling, Monarch, Muscaris, Nobling, Osella, Piroso, Prior, Rosetta, Rosina (1), Rubinrebe, Solaris, Souvignier Gris and Zähringer.

The origins of the Freiburg Institute lie in a vineyard founded by the brothers Nikolaus, Adolph Friedrich and Jakob Wilhelm Blankenhorn from Müllheim in Baden in 1842 on what is now the Blankenhornsberg in Ihringen am Kaiserstuhl (the Blankenhorn vineyard, which had long been in the family, was sold in 2014). Adolph Friedrich's son, the later president of the German Winegrowers' Association, Professor Adolph Blankenhorn (1843-1906) then founded an Oenological Institute in Karlsruhe in 1872 and used the Kaiserstuhl vineyard as a grape variety testing station. After it was sold to the Baden Chamber of Agriculture, the present-day institute was founded in 1920 with its headquarters in Freiburg. Dr. Karl Müller (1881-1955) was appointed the first director in 1921.

Dr. Johannes Zimmermann (1907-1998) joined the then Baden Viticultural Institute in Freiburg in 1934 and was responsible for vine breeding and microbiology. He headed the grapevine breeding department from 1937 to 1945 and worked there until 1972. He did pioneering work for the introduction of PIWI varieties in viticulture, which began in the 1990s. Also extensively active in this field was Dr Norbert Becker (1937-2012), the long-time head of the Resistance and Clone Breeding Unit. From 1952, the Institute was a research institute of the state of Baden-Württemberg. Since 1991, the teaching and experimental estate on the Blankenhornsberg has been the focus of all viticultural experiments. In 1997, the State Wine Estate Freiburg and Blankenhornsberg was founded. Since 2011 it has been called Staatsweingut Freiburg.

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