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The Saale-Unstrut wine route celebrates its 25th birthday this year. "Just in time for the anniversary, tourist signs will be put up at the vineyards this year, as well as on the region's cycle and hiking trails about the local vineyards," says Sandra Polomski-Woithon, the head of the regional wine promotion department. This would create a system of guidance for the origin of the wine at Saale-Unstrut through the wine cultural landscape. The project sponsor is the Burgenlandkreis with District Administrator Götz Ulrich and it is financed to 90 per cent with subsidies from the Investitionsbank Sachsen-Anhalt (GRW). The cooperation with the Saxony-Anhalt State Tourism Association also takes up the anniversary with special events and exhibitions.
Originally, the local Wine Route ran from Nebra along the Unstrut river to Freyburg and on via Naumburg to Bad Kösen. In 1994 the Thuringian town of Bad Sulza was added to the map, and in 2003 the municipality of Memleben. Emperor Otto already stayed in this place. One of the first documented mentions of viticulture in the region dates back to the Ottonian imperial house in 998. Now the Wine Route runs over 60 kilometres through the country: The "Mannsfeld Lakes Wine Route" between Zappendorf and Lutherstadt Eisleben also runs through the northern wine growing island over a length of more than 20 kilometres. In the southeast of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the "White Elster Wine Route" runs from the Posa Monastery in Zeitz to Wetterzeube.
(uka / Photo: Saale-Unstrut Tourism)