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Inaugural event on cross terracing in steep slope viticulture
Source: Christian Frings

For centuries now, steep slope viticulture has shaped the scenery in regions such as the Middle Rhine Valley and the Moselle Valley creating diverse cultural landscapes. However, over the last decades the scene has changed. It is becoming increasingly difficult to manage today’s vertically planted vineyards profitably and the many fallow vineyards on the Middle Rhine and Moselle clearly reflect this development.

Since the beginning of 2018 Hochschule Geisenheim University has been investigating horizontal or cross terracing as a possible solution for steep vineyard sites.  Vineyard rows and alleys that run parallel to the hillside can be cultivated using ...

2018 DAAD Summer school „Wine Business“ in Georgia
Source: Dr. Sophie Ghvanidze

Hochschule Geisenheim University organizes Summer School: An ideal opportunity for students to get to know the University and learn about wine business

This year’s summer school organized by Hochschule Geisenheim University and Agricultural University of Georgia (AGRUNI) Tiflis and Armenian National Agrarian University (ANAU) Jerewan, is dedicated to wine business.


28 participants spent 5 days to ...

A true "Geisenheimer": Professor Helmut Dietrich retires after 37 years

Professor Dietrich – former head of the department of wine analysis and beverage research – loved teaching

In 1952 Professor Helmut Dietrich was born in Friedrichsthal. Between 1971 and 1977 he studied Chemistry at the University of the Saarland in Saarbrücken. In 1980 he completed his doctoral thesis on alcohol dehydrogenase. After working as a Post Doc ...

APPLY NOW: INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2019

The Rudolf Hermanns Foundation awards prizes of up to €12,500 for outstanding achievements in all areas of viticulture and horticultural science.

The aim is to reward papers from both scientific areas, which have led to the further development of these disciplines taking into account practical aspects.



The Rudolf Hermanns Foundation of Hochschule Geisenheim University has been awarding prizes ...

Geisenheim receives funding approval for “Zukunft Stadtgrün”, a joint program of the Federal Government and the Länder
Source: Ulrike Eschweiler, Geisenheim

The university town of Geisenheim has been officially accepted onto the “Zukunft Grün” (“Future Urban Greenspace”) funding program. In Frankfurt on September 5, 2018, the town’s mayor, Christian Assmann, accompanied by Stephanie Braun-Fischer from Hochschule Geisenheim University, was presented with the official notice of admission from Hessen’s Environment Minister Priska Hinz.

Hochschule Geisenheim University is acting as local partner in the funding application, and will thus play an advisory and initiatory role in the planned development of urban green infrastructure. Thanks to the existing cooperation between town and ...

Anniversary event: graduate school of Hochschule Geisenheim University celebrates its 200. seminar
Source: Tina Kissinger

Guest speaker of Hessian Agency for Nature Conservation & Environment and Geology give a talk on climate change in Hesse

On October, 25th 2018 the graduate school of Hochschule Geisenheim University celebrates its 200. seminar. The event was attended by Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmid, the president of the Hessian Agency for Nature Conservation & Environment and Geology ...

ZuGAbe Summer School „Cover Materials for Greenhouses“

Students and doctoral students of Hochschule Geisenheim University visit Greece

A one-week summer school (24th to 30th September 2018) on cover materials took place at the University of Thessaly (UTH) in Volos, Greece. Both universities are part of the ZuGAbe-cooperation.


The summer school was a big success with more than 40 ...

Presentation of young talents awards by “Bund deutscher Oenologen” (association of German enologists)

Excellent theses in enology, viticulture, international wine business and beverage technology win young talents award

 

by Klaus Herrmann


From November 4th to November 6th this years INTERVITIS INTERFRUCTA HORTITECHNICA took place together with the 63. viticulture congress under the patronage of the international organization of vine and wine (OIV) at the “Messe” ...

Presentation of the Professor Müller-Thurgau Award 2018
photo: Winfried Schönbach, Hochschule Geisenheim

Federal minister of agriculture Julia Klöckner and Robert Lönarz acknowledge Dr. Franz Josef Jung and his nephew Ingmar Jung for their commitment to the „hip university“

 

The VEG-Geisenheim Alumni Association e.V. awards the Professor Müller-Thurgau award to those who have shown special commitment to nowadays Hochschule Geisenheim University. „For the first time in history the prize is awarded to a family“ said Julia ...

A popular platform for exchange and networking

Hochschule Geisenheim University‘s fair stand at this year’s INTERVITIS INTERFRUCTA HORTITECHNICA attracts numerous visitors with "ask the expert sessions", information and famous Geisenheim coffee.

The wine of 2050 – what will it taste like? And what about the consequences of the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere on plants, soils, microorganisms and insects and thus on vines and horticultural cultures? These are the ...