page_title: Meckenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate
section_title: Winegrowing
hierarchical_section_title: Meckenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate / Economy and infrastructure / Winegrowing
caption_attribution_description: English: view of Meckenheim (Pfalz), Germany
context_page_description: Meckenheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
context_section_description: Meckenheim’s vineyards belong to the Palatinate wine region and also more locally to the Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstraße growing area. Belonging to Meckenheim are two local appellations, namely Neuberg and Spielberg, themselves both within the greater appellation of Hofstück.
  In Meckenheim there are 51 winegrowing businesses with planted vineyard areas of 0.3 ha or more; the average area for each business is 4.8 ha. All together, vineyards cover 258 ha within Meckenheim’s municipal area. White wines produced by Meckenheim winegrowing businesses account for 57% of the production, while the other 43% is red wines (as at 2003).
caption: Village square
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