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Wine Cellars - Vineyard family Pelzmann and Prellnerkirche Kellergasse in lower Austria.

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The wine cellar houses found in the Kellergassen were once used for wine production and storage. Today wines are usually produced at wineries, but the historic Kellergassen are often stirred from their slumber for special occasions in many villages.

Cellar alley, Austrian term for mostly smaller, often centuries-old cellar complexes, which are often built next to each other outside the wine-growing communities. The Presshaus is located just below ground level. The so-called cellar neck connects the front rooms with the cellar tube, the actual storage cellar. This provides an ideal, constant cellar temperature. Especially in Lower Austria and Burgenland there are many of these romantic cellar complexes with a lot of local colour. It is also common in many wine-growing villages to celebrate cellar festivals in these cellar lanes in autumn after the grape harvest.

HISTORY OF THE CELLAR HOUSES. The Romans stored their wines in so-called “celleae vinariae” in the classical era. The Roman historian Tacitus described Germanic storerooms for the storage of wine in one of his works. Up until the year 800, wines were stored in wooden structures that were first later replaced by those built with earth and rock.Wine was produced and stored exclusively by monasteries until the modern era. After the Thirty Years’ War, farmers gained more vineyard area and needed more storage space. Increasingly more wine cellar houses were built that eventually formed Kellergassen (cellar lanes).
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