The archive
Catalogues, posters, labels, correspondence, photographs: the documents that carry the story of the Ambrosi house.
The cover of «Buletinul Agriculturii» (year 10, series II, vol. I, nos. 1–2, January–February 1929), the issue in which Michael Ambrosi jun. published his study on Berlandieri × Riparia. The cover shows the stamp of the «Astra» Library in Sibiu and the manuscript shelfmarks M4848 and 78509.
Source Biblioteca Astra Sibiu
The «bulletin» of the expert commission for vine and horticultural planting material at the Chișinău vine fair, 15–20 March. Its commercial conclusions record that the nursery’s grafted and American vines were found «of very good quality», and recommend the range for Bessarabia and Moldavia; at the lower left stands the signature of the fair’s technical commissioner, a viticultural engineer.
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
An illustrated postcard of the firm «M. Ambrosi sen., Mediasch-Siebenbürgen», advertising the «Mustergut CRĂCIUNEL» model estate and the «GLORIA» vine school; the German heading reads «Grosskulturen zur Erzeugung amerik. Unterlagsreben». On the right half stand a handwritten address and two Hungarian 25-fillér stamps.
Source arhiva doamnei Binder Rosemarie
The addressed side of a postcard of the firm «Viile și Pivnițele Dr. Alfred Ambrosi, Mediaș», printed with «Weingut- und Sortenweinkellerei» and telephone 11. The address goes to the «Societatea Cooperativă Izbanda» in Câmpulung, Moldavia, and the franking includes 3-lei and 50-bani stamps, among them one issued for the «Fondul Aviației».
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
The reverse of the postcard, typewritten at Mediaș on 13 May: the firm explains to a customer that the bottles labelled «Muscat-Ottonel» and those labelled «Tămâioasă» hold “one and the same wine”, since Tămâioasă is the Romanian name of the Muscat-Ottonel variety. The text closes with the red stamp of «Viile și pivnițele Dr. Alfred Ambrosi».
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
The cover of the catalogue «Pepinierele Dr. Ambrosi, Mediaș — Vițe altoite, Port altoi», with the firm’s round seal enclosing the shield with the hand and grape bunches. At the foot are the Mediaș head office (telephone 11), the Bucharest branch at Calea Victoriei 122 and CEC account 43290.
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
A typewritten request on the letterhead of «Viile și pivnițele Dr. Alfred Ambrosi», dated at Mediaș 13 July 1938 and addressed «Domnule Primar!». Ambrosi asks for a certificate confirming that the house built in 1927, on the street then called “Keppenberg”, became habitable on 1 April 1938, at the request of the local tax office; the paper bears five 10-lei fiscal stamps.
Source Arhiva Primăriei Mediaș
The «Ambrosi Imperial — Rheinriesling» label, printed for «Dr. Alfred Ambrosi ~ Mediaș», with the address «București, Calea Victoriei 122». Above the name sits the eagle-and-star coat of arms within a gilt border.
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
The «Doktor Ambrosi Privat» label, carrying the firm «Viile și Pivnițele Dr. Alfred Ambrosi, Mediaș» at the foot. The border is adorned with grape bunches, and at the top stands the red shield with the hand and the vine.
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
The second variant of the label, kept without the wine’s name: a border drawn with vines and grape bunches frames the family’s red shield and the signature «Dr. Alfred Ambrosi, Mediasch-Siebenbürgen». The central field has been left blank, ready for the wine’s name to be printed.
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
An envelope of the firm «Viile și Pivnițele Ambrosi, Mediaș — Sucursala București», with its Bucharest office at «Calea Victoriei 122» and telephone 4 96 56. The typed address goes to «A. F. S. M., Pivnițele de Vinuri», and the postmark reads Mediaș, Str. Sibiului 10.
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
An envelope of the firm «Ambrosi, Fischer & Co., Aiud, jud. Alba», with telephone no. 22, CEC account no. 43.026 and its registration at the Alba-Iulia Chamber of Commerce under no. 16/931. The typed address goes to «D-lui Dr. Ing. Al. Isopescu» in Făgăraș, Str. Luterană no. 25.
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
The firm’s advertising block on a magazine page (p. 35): «Ambrosi — Rebschule Mediasch — Rebenveredlungen — Amerik. Unterlagsreben — Verlangt Katalog», flanked by two medallions of grape bunches. The same page carries advertisements for «Triumph» typewriters and for the «Martin Rieger» nursery at Apoldu de Sus.
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
An interwar photograph of Calea Victoriei in Bucharest, at the corner by the «Adriatica» building with its clock tower and the «SOCOMET» lettering. On the neighbouring block the name «Ambrosi» is painted large above the advertising panels, among trams and the cars of the day.
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
The cover of the 1941 «Der Pflug» calendar, «herausgegeben von der Verwaltung des Siebenb.-sächs. Landwirtschaftsvereins», with the portrait of Michael Ambrosi and the dates «geb. 20. Januar 1862, gestorben 18. März 1933».
Source arhiva Helmuth Julius Knall
Pages 122–123 of the 1941 «Der Pflug» calendar, with a tribute to Michael Ambrosi: founder of the agricultural association and of a common vine school at Grossprobstdorf, then one of the first to see grafting on American rootstocks as the way to rebuild the vineyards. The text recalls his series of articles «Wege und Ziele zur Erhaltung unseres Weinbaus».
Source arhiva Helmuth Julius Knall
The oil portrait of Michael Ambrosi jun. (1880–1940), signed «Hans Hermann 1941» in the upper left corner. He is shown with a white moustache and beard, in a dark suit and a red tie.
Source Asociația Locului Natal Mediaș
An advertisement in the «Siebenbürgische Zeitung» for «varietal wines from Transylvania, natural», under the «Ambrosi-Sondermarken» brand. Two 1964 vintage wines are recommended — «Mädchentraube Spätlese» and «Siebenbürger Traminer» — and orders are taken through the «Importgemeinschaft Dr. Alfred Ambrosi, Süddeutsche Importkellereien GmbH, München», post office box 362.
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
A Christmas and New Year advertisement urging «Schenkt Wein aus Siebenbürgen!» and proposing the «Weinpräsent» gift — a box of three bottles, with gold embossing and a Renaissance-gobelin lining. Orders go to «Dr. Alfred Ambrosi, 8 München 80, Zaubzerstraße 41, Telefon (0811) 47 94 36».
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
An advertisement for the «Dr. Ambrosi Sondermarken — Traminer u. Mädchentraube», the two wines recommended as a Christmas and New Year gift. The price list of the Romanian-Transylvanian range is available from the «Importkellerei Dr. Stefan Spernath & Co.», and the address remains «Dr. Alfred Ambrosi, 8 München 80, Zaubzerstraße 41».
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
The article «Ein siebenbürgischer Weinbaupionier», signed Hans Ambrosi, marking one hundred years since the birth of Erhard Binder, «geboren am 1. August 1896 in Mediasch». The text follows Binder’s path from the Roth grammar school in Mediaș to the town’s cellars and to Heilbronn, where he died on 11 November 1956.
Source arhiva doamnei Binder Rosemarie
The Ambrosi harvest: a large group of pickers — women, men and children — pose on the slope beside a pair of white oxen and a cart. On the hill behind them the name «M. AMBROSI» is written with vines.
Source arhiva Ambrosi Gerhard Michael
An old photograph of the Ambrosi & Fischer plantations: a horse draws a hoe between the young vine rows, led by two workers in white shirts. In the background stand the low nursery buildings and the tree line.
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
An old photograph of work at Ambrosi & Fischer: loaded horse-drawn carts lined up in the nursery yard, beside a plank shed and a vintage motor car. In the background workers gather bundles of planting material.
Source Capitolul «Documente Ambrosi»
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