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 important wine trading cities and, right after the large French city of Bordeaux, the second largest wine trading hub in Europe. The reason for this extraordinary position lay in the high demand for Riesling wines and exports, particularly to Great Britain and overseas, which led to the founding of over 100 wine companies.
Enormous wealth and prosperity thus laid the foundation for a lively construction activity in the grand 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" (today 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, with large areas of the city center being vaulted, featuring partly multi-storey and over 100 meters long cellars, more than in any other Moselle community.

Discover the architectural treasures of a former wine trading metropolis on our "Architectural Wine Walk" and dive into one of our underground cellars at the end.

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