Stuttgart Wine Village in Stuttgart
Stuttgart's Weindorf, or Wine Village, was founded in 1976 to showcase wines from the Wurttemberg region, building on a local wine culture documented since 1108. Around 120 decorated wooden wine arbors line the central Marktplatz, Schillerplatz and Kirchstrasse, drawing more than a million visitors to sample over 500 wines from Wurttemberg and Baden.
Stuttgart's documented wine history reaches back to 1108, the first written mention of Swabian wine, and a persistent local legend holds that wine was more plentiful than water in the city during the fourteenth century, a claim locals still cite to explain why wine became something close to a regional national drink.