single vineyard (also Im Röttgen) in the municipality of Winningen (Burg Cochem area) in the German Moselle wine-growing region. The name is derived from the dialect "Rödchen" (a "small clearing"). The site is relatively young. Prussian soldiers lying in Koblenz had turned a large rock into a vineyard at the request of the mayor of Winningen. White pebbles embedded in one of the many dry stone walls of the "Röttgen" indicate the year of its creation as 1822. The well-known vineyard owner Johann Philipp Bronner...
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