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 towns and was the second largest wine transshipment center in Europe, right after the great French city of Bordeaux. 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 affluence thus created the foundation for vigorous construction activity in a bourgeois style. The Berlin architect Bruno Möhring discovered his love for the Mosel 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 Buddha Museum), as well as other structures 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, unlike any other Mosel municipality, large areas of the city center were underpinned with partially multi-story and over 100-meter-long vaults.

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.

Regular tours only in German!

Here you save with your Mollie Guestcard.

Holders of the Mollie Guestcard pay €11 instead of €15.
Children with Mollie Guestcard (from 01.07.2025) pay €5 instead of €6.

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