Schlieben: Wine Cellars, Viticulture and the Moienmarkt

Schlieben combines viticulture and a historic cellar street with the annual Moienmarkt. This gives your travel planning a range of possible focuses: the history and present-day practice of viticulture, as well as an annual folk and local heritage festival. Schlieben is the local focus; other cultural and industrial themes are part of the wider Elbe-Elster travel destination.

Kellerstraße and viticulture in Schlieben

In the wider Elbe-Elster travel destination, Schlieben’s historic Kellerstraße comprises more than 30 wine cellars, dug into the Langen Berg since around 1540. Most date from the 16th century. The number of cellars and their historical dating give the street a distinctive profile.

The approximately 1.5-kilometre wine hiking trail provides information about viticulture in general and viticulture in Schlieben. The route thus connects a broader theme with its local context. Present-day cultivation is also part of Schlieben’s viticultural history: vines have been grown again on the south-facing slope of the Langen Berg since 1992; more than 2,000 vines of the Müller-Thurgau and Bacchus varieties now grow there.

On a guided tour, you can learn about and taste Schlieben wine. Vineyard tours and tastings in the vineyard and in the historic wine cellar on Kellerstraße are available from May to October and must be booked in advance. Ask about a suitable date before your trip.

The Moienmarkt as an annual reason to visit

The Moienmarkt in Schlieben is an annual folk and local heritage festival. As a reason to visit, it differs from the seasonal wine tours and tastings. If you would like to plan your stay around the festival, check the specific event dates for your preferred travel dates.

Elbe-Elster: other cultural and industrial themes

In the wider Elbe-Elster travel destination, the F60 visitor mine is located south of Lichterfeld, in the Elbe-Elster district. Visitors to the mine can explore nearby Bergheider See by bicycle or Segway, or take a walk along its long beach. This offers a different thematic focus from viticulture in Schlieben.

The industrial history of the wider Elbe-Elster travel destination includes the Louise briquette factory in Domsdorf and Plessa power station. The Louise briquette factory in Domsdorf is the oldest preserved briquette factory in Europe. At the Louise briquette factory in Domsdorf, visitors to the wider Elbe-Elster travel destination can experience working historic machinery and discover steam engines. Plessa power station is one of Europe’s oldest lignite-fired power stations and has retained its original structural fabric. Visitors can view authentic power station technology from the 1920s there. Plessa power station in the wider Elbe-Elster travel destination offers the guided “Weg der Kohle” (“Coal Trail”) tour through the outdoor bunker, boiler house, turbine hall, control room and transformer area. Check the booking conditions if you are planning to take this tour.

In the wider Elbe-Elster travel destination, Museum Mühlberg 1547 focuses on the meeting of armies in 1547, which shaped the course of the Reformation, and bears the European Heritage Label. You can reach Museum Mühlberg 1547 in the wider Elbe-Elster travel destination on bus routes 433/437 from Riesa, 536 from Falkenberg or Bad Liebenwerda–Koßdorf, and 565 from Bad Liebenwerda. From Mühlberg bus station, it is about 300 metres, or a four-minute walk, to the museum in the wider Elbe-Elster travel destination. Check connections to Museum Mühlberg 1547 in the wider Elbe-Elster travel destination before setting out.

Discover more destinations: Bad Liebenwerda, Plessa, Falkenberg/Elster, Sallgast, Schönewalde, Finsterwalde, Gröden, Röderland.

Return to the wider travel overview: Elbe-Elster.