Location and landscape
Haßloch is a municipality in the district of Bad Dürkheim in Rhineland-Palatinate and belongs to the Pfalz. The municipal area lies on the Böhler loess plateau, an almost level landscape with broad, shallow drainage channels running in an east-west direction.
Soils and viticulture
The subsoil consists of river gravels which, outside the stream floodplains, are covered by a loess layer several metres thick. Among other things, Parabraunerde and Black Earths (Schwarzerden) developed from this. According to the land-use plan, vineyards were located primarily along the Mußbacher Landstraße and at the north-western edge of the municipality in the contiguous area of Im Leisböhl.
Leisböhl vineyard site
The Leisböhl vineyard site is situated south of the A65 motorway in the municipal area of Haßloch. In the local documentation it covered approximately 23.5 hectares of planted vine area. For Haßloch viticulture, a ratio of roughly two-thirds white wine to one-third red wine was given; at events relating to Leisböhl, Riesling, Blanc de Noir and Gänsfüßer were documented, among others.
History and wine law
Haßloch has already been documented as a wine-growing municipality in the Weißenburger Urbar dated 31 December 773. The name Leisböhl was legally approved on 11 November 2008 for registered vineyard plots with the wine site number 820522. From the 2008 vintage onwards, the origin could be stated as Haßlocher Leisböhl. The site was recognised as a single-vineyard site within the Deidesheimer Hofstück collective vineyard site.
