Location and landscape
Nußbaum lies with a municipal area of 591 hectares in the Nahe valley. From the viewpoint Friedenseiche, the view extends over the Nahe valley as far as the Donnersberg.
Viticulture
Wine is grown in Nußbaum on around 20 hectares. The wine sites include Rotfeld, Höllenberg and Sonnenberg.
Wine-growing sites
Rotfeld is registered as a single vineyard site of the Nußbaum cadastral area under site number 511322. For the Nußbaum portion, 6.5 hectares of planted vineyard area are recorded. Sonnenberg bears site number 511323 and includes, in addition to a Nußbaum portion, also a Bad Sobernheim portion; the Nußbaum section accounts for 16.8 hectares.
History
Nußbaum was first mentioned in a document in 1295. Up to 1400, the town was the seat of the Knights of Nußbaum, fief-holders of the Counts of Sponheim. In the Bavarian-Palatinate War of Succession, Nußbaum was almost completely burned down in 1504 and rebuilt from the remains of the old settlement about a century later.
