Lohrberg (Frankfurt)

This guide to Lohrberg, Frankfurt's only vineyard hill, opens with a stubborn bet growers made in 2007: could roughly eighty heritage apple varieties, including cultivars like the Altland Pancake Apple, be weaned off spraying and pruning and left to fend for themselves? It follows the years of trial and error replacing dwarf trees with old-fashioned standards, against a backdrop of vineyards planted here since the year 882. Listen for the story of the Roman column fragment carved for Jupiter, found nearby.