Der Wein der"Gutehoffnungshutte": 100 Jahre Weingut St. Antony

In 2020 the St. Antony winery in Nierstein (Rheinhessen) could look back on a hundred-year history: In 1920 the first delivery of our Niersteiner arrived by ship at the headquarters of the Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen - wine from the edge of a limestone quarry, which the GHH had leased before the First World War, expanded and bottled in a first own, poorly built winery. Initially, the company's own wines served the board of one of the largest coal and steel companies as status objects and to maintain entrepreneurial and personal networks. After the Second World War, the quality of the wines not only improved to such an extent that they were used as menu companions at board level. After a considerable expansion of the vineyards, the GHH wines were also offered to the workforce of the widespread group and even found their way to Brazil. In the eighties, the now called St. Antony winery, which had been transferred to MAN together with GHH, became one of the best Riesling wineries in all of Germany. Daniel Deckers has reconstructed the history of the St. Antony winery on the basis of all available written sources and many oral traditions. Wine-growing history is combined with the history of industry, society and mentality. These interrelationships make the St. Antony winery a unique place of remembrance, possibly not only in Germany, but worldwide. The archive of Gutehoffnungshütte Aktienverein (GHH), Oberhausen, is kept in the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln (RWWA) foundation.