Strausswirtschaft

English translation: Open-door winery

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German term or phrase:	Strausswirtschaft
English translation:	Open-door winery
Entered by:	Ramey Rieger (X)

13:44 Feb 17, 2015

German to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Food & Drink / Description for a brochure aimed at tourists

German term or phrase: Strausswirtschaft

I know what it is, but I need an easily-recognisable, self-explanatory and yet attractive (from the marketing point of view) term. Tourists coming to a wine-growing area in Franconia who come across one of these may be using English as an international language, for that reason I want an easy way of referring to it in English.

A Strausswirtschaft is essentially understood to be a winemaker serving his own wine on his own premises. These seasonal inns are not subject to normal business laws and are thus not obliged to have a licence or to pay extra taxes. They must, however, fulfil certain conditions instead. These conditions vary from state to state but they are in general agreement on certain essential points. (...) The kinds of locations in which a Strausswirtschaft can be found can vary considerably. Besides ones funished like ordinary pubs there are also simple barns where benches and tables have been temporarily set up to accommodate guests. In earlier decades some winegrowers even cleared their flats or the stables to run such a tavern.
(this is from the Wikipedia English page - here is the equivalent in German)
Eine Straußwirtschaft ist ein in Deutschland (speziell in der Pfalz, Rheinhessen und im Rheingau) von Winzern und Weinbauern saisonal geöffneter Gastbetrieb, in dem die Erzeuger zu bestimmten Zeiten ihren selbsterzeugten Wein direkt vermarkten. Regional sind folgende Begriffe für diese Gastronomieform in Deutschland verbreitete: Straußenwirtschaft (im Rheinland und in Rheinhessen), Besenwirtschaft, Besenschänke oder kurz Besen (in Württemberg), Kranzwirtschaft (in Baden), Rädle und Rädlewirtschaft (in der Bodenseeregion) sowie Hecken-, Häckerwirtschaft oder Maienwirtschaft (in Franken).

British Diana KudoZ activity Questions: 100 (1 open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 740 Germany
Local time: 08:44

Open-door winery

Explanation:
OR: walk-in winery
I don't think the seasonal is all that vital, as you will certainly explain it in further text, won't you? Or is this merely a list of Strausswirtschaften?

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Ramey Rieger (X)
Germany
Local time: 08:44

Grading comment

Thank you, Ramey! I need the term to advertise a winery, i.e.to say they also "do" Strausswirtschaft. We are a walk-in winery, and run a private pub for parts of the year. Somerthing like that...
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Summary of answers provided

2 +2

seasonal home-grown wine outlet

Wendy Streitparth

3 +1

vintners seasonal wine taverns

franglish

Besen (fresh wine tavern)

Michael Martin, MA

Open-door winery

Ramey Rieger (X)

Summary of reference entries provided

Have you seen ...

Steffen Walter

Discussion entries: 7

BrigitteHilgner

Austria

Siehe auch

16:04 Feb 17, 2015

http://www.proz.com/?sp=gloss/term&id=21580039
("Buschenschank" ist der österreichische Ausdruck für Straußwirtschaft)
My Pons Collins Großwörterbuch (1999) refers one to "Besenwirtschaft" and offers the following information:
"Besenwirtschaften are found in Germany's wine regions. They are private bars opened by wine-growers as soon as the new wine known as Federweißer) has fermented and is ready to drink. A broom is placed in front of the door - or in some regions a bunch of flowers is hung over the door, giving rise to the name Straußwirtschaft."
There are also discussions on the platform leo:
http://dict.leo.org/forum/viewUnsolvedquery.php?idThread=499...
and
http://dict.leo.org/forum/viewWrongentry.php?idThread=37685&...
"seasonal wine tavern" might be an option ...

British Diana

Germany

ASKER

14:51 Feb 17, 2015

Thank you for the first lot of comments. "Seasonal" is an obvious choice as the Strausswirtschaft is a temporary affair. Not so sure about "tavern" , this conjours up a different (historical) image for me. The same applies to "inn", really. In a way I would like to emphasise the casual aspect - When the winemaker opens his Strausswirtschaft, he is doing something he does not usually do the rest of the year.

TonyTK

Picking up on ...

14:33 Feb 17, 2015

... Brita's suggestion, there are quite a lot of good hits for "seasonal wine tavern".

Brita Fiess (X)

Germany

Seasonal wine room

14:28 Feb 17, 2015

is what the Stuttgart Tourist information came up with...
(http://www.stgt.com/stuttgart/besenwirtschaften_eng.htm).

I would probably add something like "rustic" (see the colleague's note above)

seehand

Germany

rustic???

13:57 Feb 17, 2015

would also be an option ...

seehand

Germany

typical wine tavern

13:55 Feb 17, 2015

perhaps you could also work with cosy or even "gemütlich"

Lancashireman

United Kingdom

British English, Di?

13:55 Feb 17, 2015

If so, this probably won't fit the bill: http://wine.answers.com/wine-destinations/traits-that-define...

Answers

2 hrs confidence:

Besen (fresh wine tavern)

Explanation:
That's what travelhoppers came up with and it works for me (http://www.travelhoppers.com/2012/11/15/how-a-broomstick-can... In Austria, those places are called Heuriger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuriger)

To me, it doesn't make sense to use some generic term like "fresh wine tavern" because that says nothing about the regional tradition. As a rule, it's impossible to create translations for regional traditions that everybody understands without losing that regional authenticity. Most tourists will understand that. But it's all right if that's too much too ask. Just go with "(fresh) wine tavern" or something along those lines..

Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 02:44
Works in field
Native speaker of:

German,

English
PRO pts in category: 38

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you, Michael. I agree that the a author of the article was right to use the term "besen", but I can't do it as my wine-growing area doesn't call them "Besenwirtschaft" and I don't have a whole article to explain the term!

4 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

seasonal home-grown wine outlet

Explanation:
what a mouthful!

Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Local time: 08:44
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 30

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you, Wendy. Not so sure about the "outlet", the rest is good.

5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

vintners seasonal wine taverns

Explanation:
googling some this is what I came up with

franglish
Switzerland
Local time: 08:44
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 7

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thankyou, franglish. It's a bit long for my purpose and I'm not so keen on vintner or tavern

1 day 2 hrs confidence:

Open-door winery

Explanation:
OR: walk-in winery
I don't think the seasonal is all that vital, as you will certainly explain it in further text, won't you? Or is this merely a list of Strausswirtschaften?

Ramey Rieger (X)
Germany
Local time: 08:44
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 34

Grading comment

Thank you, Ramey! I need the term to advertise a winery, i.e.to say they also "do" Strausswirtschaft. We are a walk-in winery, and run a private pub for parts of the year. Somerthing like that...

Reference comments

16 mins peer agreement (net): +1

Reference: Have you seen ...

Reference information:
... http://www.proz.com/kudoz/german_to_english/tourism_travel/1... ? (---> rustic vineyards)

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Thank you - sounds plausible :-)
Have a great weekend!

Steffen Walter
Germany
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 32

Note to reference poster

Asker: Thank you, Steffen! I have found out that the usual term for Weingut is now "winery". I call Weinbauer/Winzer "winegrowers" and those who actually make the wine "winemakers". Oversimplified I know, but easier for my tourists to understand and for my Winzer to remember

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