Wine and weir
What a charming contrast characterizes the view of Spitz: the cultivated vineyards of the 1000-Eimerberg behind the village center. And in contrast - just across the Spitzer Bach stream - the wildly romantic aura of the Hinterhaus ruins on their rocky spur.
The prosperity that the rich vineyards on the 1000-Eimerberg provided had to be protected. And this was done often and with great effort, as the history of the Hinterhaus ruins reveals: After the end of the Dürnsteiner Kuenringer family, it constantly changed hands. It was destroyed, rebuilt, besieged, taken by the Hungarians (1491) and extended against the Turks in the 16th century. The "end of the story" came in 1620: in the course of the Reformation Wars, when Spitz was largely Protestant, the castle was destroyed and never repaired.
Would you have thought it?
The 1000-Eimerberg got its name from the 1000 buckets of wine it is said to have produced in good years. According to current measurements, that would be 56,000 liters! Today, excellent Riesling and Neuburger wines continue to grow here on some of the steepest stone terraces in the Wachau.
