Stop the Mosel High Bridge
| 11 November 2009
I received the following appeal from Katharina Prüm yesterday, the main part of which appears below:
“I would like to use the occasion of this e-mail-contact to shortly approach you with another matter you might already have heard of: The project of a “Moselhighbridge” planned by the government of Rheinland-Pfalz and financially supported by the German national government to be built next to Ürzig and a continuing motorway guided on the hillside above our vineyards. There has been quite some press about this matter in the UK, e.g. in the Sunday Times, Decanter, at Jancis Robinson, Harpers etc. You can find all these and more articles on the website of the campaign protesting against that bridge: www.b50neu.de.
We are supporting this protest since the bridge is not necessary, would waste hundreds of millions of taxpayers money, destroy the beautiful Mosel valley landscape around Ürzig and any chance to get it listed as Unesco cultural heritage and the road following that bridge might also have a negative impact on the water support in our vineyards as well as risk the stability of the very sensitive Riesling slopes. I could write many more pages about it, but I do not want to bother you with this but rather just ask to to support the campaign against the bridge by signing the protest action of THE FEINSCHMECKER, the most famous German Wine & Food Magazine: http://www.der-feinschmecker.de/go/moselprotest. This campaign will be finished by the end of this month and we would be happy to receive as many voices against the bridge as possible. The good thing is that it is very easy: Just fill out your name and address and click on the “Ja, ich protestiere…” button, and done! Since the page is in German, the protest campaigners have prepared an English guideline/translation on their website which allows you to join this protest without any language problems: http://www.b50neu.de/feinschm_e.html. We would appreciate it very much if you could sign there any motivate as many more people as possible to sign, too. If you have further questions, please let me know!”
The whole thing makes me very sad. These are the very jewel vineyards of Germany and it would be a travesty to endanger them in any way. I hope you will join me in getting behind this protest.
