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This German town wants to be known for wine, it is instead Trump and Drumpf.
Kallstadt, Germany Petra Berghold had no idea that there was something unusual about the modest winemaker at her and her husband bought in 1994 and began renovating They transformed the cellar barrel wine in their living room ceilinged The piggery is now a party room.
But these days, the Bergholds keep their blue metal door closed against the prying lenses of German tabloids, who presented with a U-size cutout of the Republican presidential front-runner and photographed on the street.
The Bergholds have Trump Haus, where the grandfather of Donald Trump, Friedrich lived before leaving for America in 1885 The shooting of the door that appear on television and in tweets around the world feel let Berghold a little violated.
Trump connection brought a new political tourism brand to a village whose inhabitants, he prefers to be known as a center of wine and a sausage delicacy known Saumagen or stomach Many say they sow fIelD boring questions that ranged from serious to absurd what are the dangers of the particular brand of Trump nativism and is it true, as comedian John Oliver said in his HBO program that the Trump ancestors were once known Drumpf Not recently, but there was Drombs and Trums and everything else if you go back far enough.
Vineyards surround the village Kallstadt, Germany, where the grandfather of Donald Trump Friedrich Trump was born and raised in the region has a long history of wine production Bonnie Jo Mount Washington Post.
It is a small village, said Alex Messer, liters of rose whooshed in bottles on a conveyor belt to the wine cooperative that manages many residents can claim kinship with a sort But, he added, we know that Trump TV what we see is a show.
Trump, in a recent interview seemed curious to know where he is in his ancestral hometown.
What do they think of me in Kallstadt he asked.
He recalled a certain beauty of a visit from childhood with his father it was the wine country, he was serious in Germany, he said that I have a warm spot in my heart for Germany.
Some in Kallstadt admire Trump acumen Paul Irmer, a real estate investor who renovated hotel overlooking the vineyards and spends three months a year in Florida, praised what the American tycoon realized that I would vote to Donald Trump said Irmer.
Yet few here warmly think Trump Its winner-take-all swagger disagrees with the way business is done, the people say that many families pooled their resources to create the cooperative, which allows them improve the performance of a zone with an almost Mediterranean climate is known as the sausage as Saumagen.
The wine market is so large, we work together for a better brand, said Philipp Woehrwag of the winery Ruprecht Mueller.
Trump tough talk sounds like a craftsman boast of its goods, said the soft voice Roland Freund, a cousin of Trump's.
I'm the best I'm going to do, I'll buy that.
And then what happens Freund asked in politics as in business, extravagance leads to more money problems.
The views of the villagers reflect the history of their community.
Kallstadt is located in the leafy southern Germany along the wine route, or wine route, the Nazis established in 1935 to market the wines that Hitler jumped to power and led between Jewish merchants 1933 and 1940 the number of Jews in the region fell by about 6,500 to 900, according to Roland Paul director of an institute for history and folklore studies Palatinate.
Many Germans are both haunted by the Nazi past and anxious country for the future in the midst of a flood of refugees from the Middle East in the recent regional elections, the anxiety of the massive influx of immigrants has contributed to right Alternative for Germany Trump of gain medium called the refu Chancellor Angela Merkel crazy gee policy.
The discomfort with the position of the hard-line on immigration Trump surfaced at a recent meeting here of men singing club, which includes Trump genial cousin Heiner Weisenborn More Riesling glasses homegrown, discussion if a little awkwardly, the populist views of the GOP candidate.
Gerhard Walter reached for a piece of paper and drew a swastika and firmly crossed out.
We had Adolf, said real estate businessman retired 76 years old and he was very ill.
A good person is a good person, Walter added a bad person is a bad person, whether Muslim or a Jew or not.
Some saw dark humor in the proposed Trump to build a large, beautiful wall on the Mexican border, after all, the Germans are well acquainted The Berlin wall was demolished there are less than 30 years.
In our experience, I would say that the walls never prevent people from going where they want to go, said Christian Jegensdorf, another member of the club.
Trump, in the interview, suggested that the Germans are likely to suffer more consequences of their policies Many bad things happen in Germany, he said they have a problem of enormous assimilation.
Trump is not the only wealthy American with roots among the vines Heinz Family Fame ketchup is Kallstadt.
But the villagers point out that if the Heinzes have given money for chandeliers and organ in the church, they see no sign of modern Trump fortune back to Kallstadt.
What is more, many questions here that in his book, 1987, Trump The Art of the Deal, Trump Swedish origin claimed in the interview, Trump said he could not remember why he referred to the Swedish heritage.
Simone Wendel, a distant cousin by marriage Trump, published a visionary movie just a few years, Kallstadt kings on traditions and its most remarkable human exports of town.
Wendel visited New York to meet with Trump in his turn, he seemed happy to extol the virtues of the village.
He fantastically well, Trump said of his grandfather he loved this country, but you know what I like em Kallstadt They grow well Kallstadt Well, believe me, it is good stock.
Wendel says most people do not feel a real connection to Trump that they've never met is easier for a village of winemakers understand people who do things in bottles, she said, a real estate mogul abstinent.
Nevertheless, some in Kallstadt tried to strengthen family ties.
The son, who did genealogical research in their assets before his death in 2010, Freund called Trump and received a signed 1996 Trump whim.
Martin Bender, several times removed the Trump cousin who runs a real estate business, once presented to the Trump Tower with a few bottles of better and demand to be a trainee s Kallstadt No luck, but Bender kept her rejection letter Trump's assistant, and a reminder please know that M. Trump does not drink alcoholic beverages.
The people of Kallstadt see many reasons for the existential anguish and little to gain from a Trump presidency, unless their wines, which are already used by the German Embassy in Washington, end the menu for a dinner of State of the White House, at the moment that any concerns Wendel Trump coverage leads to misconceptions about the villagers he his nickname for the proud and welcoming people Kallstadt Brulljesmacher American and British media translated as braggart, which is n not how they want the world thinks of them.
But it works for Trump exclaimed Berghold, owner Trump Haus, hastening to add that she hopes that he won t be president.
He named Trump person living in Kallstadt today.
The story might have been different Twenty years after arriving in the United States, Friedrich Trump tried to return to Kallstadt for the love of his wife homesick but who left without compulsory military service, he had the air the German authorities as a draft dodger and faced threats of deportation, says Paul, the historian the couple returned to New York.
Yet the family legacy persists in the town Friedrich had a brother who stayed in Kallstadt and the Trump name appears on a bench in the vineyards and on a tombstone in the cemetery.
And on the wine route at the north end of the village is a vineyard that went bankrupt a few years after the owner died, his wife and their son were struggling to stay afloat before selling and moving.
There were a number of reasons why wine family establishments like this one failed, says Messer, a glass Kallstadter Saumagen dry Riesling The boom of the 70s and 80s has created expectations that could not be supported Some winemakers developed flashy tastes.
A sign hanging over the entrance advertising wine on sale in the shiny gold script Just above are the weak outlines where five letters were removed, the spelling of the word Trump.
Michael Kranish in New York contributed to this report.
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