A1lo-Sunday News, September 7, 1980

SPECIAL a“ FEATURE - PART 2

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TYPICAL OF FRANCONIAN VILLAGES is picturesque Rothenburg — where

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By HELGA LOVERSEED

In Part I of this
budget tour of Fran-
conia — southern
Germany’s charming
and historic wine-
producing area — we
concluded by men-
tioning the advantages
of overnighting at a
village inn (or
Gasthaus). It’s an ideal
way to meet some of
the locals and always a
good way to get a feel
for a country.

Single rooms cost around
$25 per day (which includes
breakfast and taxes) and it
was at the Gasthaus zum
Rose, in the village of
Volkach, that we met Herr
Hessmann, who apart from
running the inn with his
family, turned out to be one
of Franconia’s leading wine
producers.

He makes his wine in the
Gasthaus cellars which are
filled with bottles, barrels
and all kinds of other wine-
making paraphernalia and
he invited us down for a
“Weinprobe” (wine-tasting).
Franconian wine is served
cool (but never cold). It
comes in a_ distinctively
shaped “bocksbeutel” which
looks like a Portuguese rose
bottle.

It's considered to be a
connoisseur wine and the
ritual of the “Weinprobe” is
taken very, sernously. First
the glass is held up -+to the
light to check the wine for

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color and clarity; next, one
has to take « mouthful of
liquid (sucking it noisily
through the teeth to “chew”
it); then you have to hold it
in yous cheeks before,
finally, swallowing it with a
satisfied smile.

“Weinprobes” are held all
over Franconia and you can
find out where they're taking
place,at the local tourist
office. Most of the visitor
information bureaux are in
or around the town hall and
although some of the tourist
brochures are printed in
German, many of the of-
ficials speak English and
they'll tell you what's on in
town.

They can also direct you
to places of interest in the
local area.

Outside Volkach, there's a
church calted St. Mary in the
Vineyard which is well worth
a visit. It sits on top of a hill
that is surrounded by vines
as far as the eye can see.

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another masterpiece by
Tilman Riemenschneider —
the Virgin and Child. This
statue is carved from wood
(linden) and it’s considered
to be particularly valuable
because it was the artist's last
work.

Thirty kilometres to the
south of Volkach is Sommer-
hausen. It is also a wine-
producing village (even the
graveyard is flanked by
vineyards) and _ it’s
surrounded by a wall, in-
terrupted at intervals by
towers. Many of them have
been restored and made into
unusual homes for writers
and painters and in recent
years Sommerhausen has
become something of an
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