Location and landscape
Dottenheim is a district of the municipality of Dietersheim in the district of Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim in Middle Franconia, Bavaria. The village lies in the Aisch Valley and belongs to the landscape of the Franconian Keuper-Lias Land. The surrounding area includes level, agriculturally used areas at the edge of the Aisch Valley, as well as vineyards.
Viticulture
Dottenheim is assigned to the Franconian wine-growing region and the Region of Franconia. In the official vineyard register, the place is listed under the large vineyard of Burgberg in the area of Mittelfränkische Bocksbeutelstraße with the individual vineyard of Burg Hoheneck. For the vineyard sites in the Ipsheim–Dottenheim area, predominantly Keuper marl (Gipskeuper) and clay soils are described.
Climate and grape varieties
For the wine-growing region in the Aisch Valley, an average temperature of around 10 °C, roughly 600 millimetres of annual rainfall and approximately 1,800 to 2,000 hours of sunshine per year are given. In the growing area, among others, Müller-Thurgau, Bacchus, Silvaner, Weißburgunder, Riesling, Scheurebe and Dornfelder are cultivated. Of the Burg Hoheneck site, Silvaner in particular is documented.
History
Dottenheim was first mentioned in a document in the year 744, was at times a free imperial city, and later came under the rule of Hohenlohe, Rothenburg ob der Tauber and the Principality of Ansbach. During the Thirty Years’ War, the village was destroyed and subsequently rebuilt by Protestant religious refugees from Austria. In 1810, Dottenheim became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria; on 1 July 1972, it was incorporated into Dietersheim.
