Landscape and location
Ottersheim near Landau is in the Palatinate. The 790-hectare municipality comprises woodland, Queich meadows and arable land. To the north, it is bounded by the Queich, its meadows and woodland areas, and to the south by vineyards and fields.
History
Ottersheim has a documented historic core of the town with a town hall built in 1555. In 2018, the municipality celebrated its 1,250th anniversary. Since the administrative reform of 1972, it has belonged together with Bellheim, Knittelsheim and Zeiskam to the Verbandsgemeinde Bellheim.
Kahlenberg vineyard site
The single-vineyard Kahlenberg lies in the cadastral area of Ottersheim and belongs to the Pfalz wine-growing region, the South Strada Wine Route area, and the Großlage Trappenberg. In the 2024 vineyard register, 19.4 hectares of planted vineyard area are recorded there.
Names and wine styles
Kahlenberg is a geographical designation for a single-vineyard site within the protected designation of origin Pfalz. For appropriately labelled products, the product specification lists, among other varieties, Ruländer, Weißer Burgunder, Weißer Riesling and Blauer Spätburgunder; this does not indicate which grape varieties are actually planted in Kahlenberg. The Palatinate specification includes white, red and rosé wines, and to a limited extent also Rotling as well as Qualitätssekt and Perlwein.
