Art nouveau - On the trail of the Belle Epoque

Architectural Wine Walk

The town of Traben-Trarbach was known around 1900 as one of the most significant wine trading cities and was the second largest wine transshipment point in Europe, right after the major French city of Bordeaux. The reason for this extraordinary position was the high demand for Riesling wines and exports, particularly to Great Britain and overseas, which led to the establishment of over 100 wine companies.
Enormous wealth and prosperity thus created the foundation for a lively construction activity in the bourgeois style. The Berlin architect Bruno Möhring discovered his love for the Moselle landscape, resulting in unique buildings such as the Art Nouveau hotel "Bellevue," the "Villa Huesgen," the "Villa Nollen" (formerly Villa Breucker), the "Brückentor," and the "Kellerei Julius Kayser" (now the Buddha Museum), as well as other buildings from the "Belle Epoque." In addition, in the second half of the 19th century, the capacities of the Traben-Trarbach wine cellars were expanded, and like in no other Moselle municipality, large areas of the town center were cellarized with partly multi-story and over 100-meter-long vaults.

Discover the architectural treasures of a former wine trading metropolis on our "Architectural Wine Walk," and immerse yourself at the end in one of our underground cellars.

Regular tours only in German!

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Tickets can be booked about 3 months in advance.
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