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Saxony (Sachsen) is a region for quality wine in Germany located in the German federal state of Saxony. The region is sometimes referred to colloquially as the Elbtal (Elbe valley). The wine region covers , which makes it Germany's third smallest region, just ahead of Mittelrhein and Hessische Bergstraße in size. It is situated along the Elbe river from the Pillnitz section of Dresden to the village of Diesbar-Seußlitz located north of Meissen. Together with the Saale-Unstrut wine region, Saxony is one of the northernmost wine regions in Europe and are the only two of Germany's 13 wine regions that are located in the former East Germany. After German reunification in 1990, the vineyard surface was expanded from 200 to 450 hectares with European Union subsidies, but in recent years the vineyard area has decreased. History The area of Saxony has a long winemaking tradition with evidence of viticulture in the region dating as far back as 1161 in Meissen. Climate and geography Located in southeastern Germany near the border with the Czech Republic, the region has a continental climate that is tempered somewhat by the Elbe. The granite and gneiss based soils of the area are similar to the Austrian Wachau wine region. Grapes and wine The Müller-Thurgau grape is the leading planting of the area at and 18.4% (2008 figures) followed by Riesling at 14.5% and Weissburgunder (Pinot blanc) at 11.9%. The majority of the wine production, around 90%, is in dry wine.

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“The Germans, both because of their intense democracy and also because they were as a rule people of limited capital and dependent on their own labor and skill for a livelihood, were not favorable to the institution of slavery.”
— A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas: Illustrated, vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907), ch. 19 (p. 193)
“Unity and justice and freedom for the German fatherland! Let us all strive for this purpose, brotherly with heart and hand! Unity and justice and freedom are the pledge of happiness. Bloom in the glow of happiness! Bloom, German fatherland!”
— August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Das Lied der Deutschen (1841)
“As long as there is a wall, barbed wire and orders to shoot, there can be no talk of normality in Germany.”
— Helmut Kohl, as quoted in "East, West Mark Berlin Wall in Conflicting Ways" (14 August 1986), The Washington Post
“Der Satan der italienischen und englischen Dichter mag poetischer sein; aber der deutsche Satan ist satanischer; und insofern könnte man sagen, der Satan sei eine deutsche Erfindung.”
— The Satan of the Italian and English poets may be more poetic; but the German Satan is more satanic; and in this respect one could say, the Satan is a German invention.
“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), Ch. 22.
“We have 500,000 reservists in America who would rise in arms against your government if you dare to make a move against Germany.”
— Arthur Zimmermann, to Ambassador James W. Gerard. Gerard: "I told him that we had five hundred thousand and one lamp posts in America, and that was where the German reservists would find themselves if they tried any uprising." Ambassador Gerard's answer. James W. Gerard, My Four Years in Germany, p. 237. Zimmermann telegram

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“The Germans, both because of their intense democracy and also because they were as a rule people of limited capital and dependent on their own labor and skill for a livelihood, were not favorable to the institution of slavery.”
— A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas: Illustrated, vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907), ch. 19 (p. 193)
“Unity and justice and freedom for the German fatherland! Let us all strive for this purpose, brotherly with heart and hand! Unity and justice and freedom are the pledge of happiness. Bloom in the glow of happiness! Bloom, German fatherland!”
— August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Das Lied der Deutschen (1841)
“As long as there is a wall, barbed wire and orders to shoot, there can be no talk of normality in Germany.”
— Helmut Kohl, as quoted in "East, West Mark Berlin Wall in Conflicting Ways" (14 August 1986), The Washington Post
“Der Satan der italienischen und englischen Dichter mag poetischer sein; aber der deutsche Satan ist satanischer; und insofern könnte man sagen, der Satan sei eine deutsche Erfindung.”
— The Satan of the Italian and English poets may be more poetic; but the German Satan is more satanic; and in this respect one could say, the Satan is a German invention.
“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), Ch. 22.
“We have 500,000 reservists in America who would rise in arms against your government if you dare to make a move against Germany.”
— Arthur Zimmermann, to Ambassador James W. Gerard. Gerard: "I told him that we had five hundred thousand and one lamp posts in America, and that was where the German reservists would find themselves if they tried any uprising." Ambassador Gerard's answer. James W. Gerard, My Four Years in Germany, p. 237. Zimmermann telegram

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