Tiefenthaler Graukatz

Tiefenthaler gray cat 
Valley, forest, red stone - and where is the cat?  

Is there a gray cat lurking in the deep valley? At least the small village of Tiefenthal lies in a valley. So far, so good. The name is possibly derived from a grape variety, the "Graukätzer", so the story goes. If one searches for this variety today, one does not find anything. But it would fit to the word sound of other historical vine variety names, like "Schwarzurban", "Gänsfüßer" or "Süßschwarz". In any case, the soil here is not gray, but rather red. Here lies the rare "Rotliegend". The Hiwwelt Tour, which begins here, is especially attractive in the summer, because it has by far the largest forest portion of all Hiwwelt tours in Rhine Hesse. 

> Hike the Hiwweltour Tiefenthaler Höhe with old quarry and numerous old boundary stones. https://www.rheinhessen.de/hiwweltour-tiefenthaler-hoehe and blog post: https://blog.rheinhessen.de/wanderbericht-hiwweltour-tiefenthaler-hoehe/ 
> Discover the forest adventure trail Wonsheim. https://www.rheinhessen.de/walderlebnisweg-1-wonsheim 
> Explore the history, taste and relevance of historic grape varieties. https://historische-rebsorten.de/