About Blick aktuell Rhein-Mosel

Blick aktuell Rhein-Mosel

Blick aktuell Rhein-Mosel is the free weekly newspaper for the lower Moselle region where the river meets the Rhine at Koblenz, published as one of 36 local editions in the Blick aktuell network of KRUPP Verlags GmbH, Sinzig. Reaching approximately 13,167 households each week in tabloid format, it is one of the network's larger editions. It was launched in 2001 under the name Untermoselreporter and adopted the Blick aktuell Rhein-Mosel title during the publisher's brand consolidation. Its delivery area follows the winding lower Moselle from the wine villages around Kobern-Gondorf, Winningen and Löf down toward the Deutsches Eck, taking in the castles, vineyards and half-timbered villages of the Terrassenmosel. Produced by local editors and freelancers with the support of the network's central desk in Sinzig and printed by the family's KRUPP Druck OHG, the paper is financed entirely by advertising and contains no syndicated national news section.

Overview

Published once a week in tabloid format, Blick aktuell Rhein-Mosel is delivered free to some 13,167 households along the lower Moselle. The delivery area covers the Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Mosel, centered on Kobern-Gondorf, with its wine villages of Winningen, Löf, Dieblich, Lehmen and their neighbors, in the steep terraced wine landscape just before the Moselle joins the Rhine.

The edition is one of 36 titles in the Blick aktuell network published by the Krupp family's KRUPP Verlags GmbH of Sinzig, with a combined weekly circulation of roughly 430,000 copies. With more than 13,000 copies, the Rhein-Mosel paper ranks among the network's larger editions. It was founded in 2001 as the Untermoselreporter, one of the network's Moselle editions from the early-2000s expansion.

As with all Blick aktuell papers, there is no mantle: no bought-in bundle of national and international news fills its pages. All content is generated within the KRUPP organization, by the central editorial desk in Sinzig under Daniel Stoffel, by local editors and by freelance contributors from a network-wide pool of around 100 reporters and photographers. The paper is local from the first page to the last.

The readership spans the Terrassenmosel's population: winegrowers, tourism workers, commuters to Koblenz, families, club members and seniors. Advertisers are the businesses of the Moselle economy: vintners and wine merchants, hotels, restaurants and guesthouses, retailers, craftsmen and service providers, drawn by the paper's broad household coverage.

History

The Rhein-Mosel edition began in 2001 as the Untermoselreporter, launched by the KRUPP publishing house as it extended its free-weekly network along the lower Moselle. The Sinzig family firm, rooted in the Sinziger Zeitung of 1876, recognized the potential of the Terrassenmosel: a world-famous wine landscape with picturesque villages, a strong tourism economy and an active club life, ready for its own dedicated weekly.

The Reporter was rebranded as Blick aktuell Rhein-Mosel when the publisher unified its 36 local titles under the single Blick aktuell brand, a name reflecting the edition's position between the two great rivers. The consolidation created a coherent advertising network while preserving each edition's local editorial identity, and brought the infrastructure of the larger organization: centralized production, the blick-aktuell.de portal and the presses of KRUPP Druck OHG.

Over more than two decades, the paper has chronicled the lower Moselle's modern history: the vintners' year from pruning to harvest, the wine festivals of Winningen and the neighboring villages, debates over tourism and traffic in the narrow valley, flood events on the Moselle, and the steady calendar of council decisions, club anniversaries and parish festivals. It has documented the valley's efforts to preserve its terraced vineyards, a cultural landscape of international significance.

The edition's success reflects the fit between the free-weekly model and the wine villages' strong local identity. Family ownership, with Hermann Krupp as editor-in-chief and Hermann and Peter Krupp as managing directors, provided the stability for the edition to grow into one of the network's largest.

Coverage and Content

Blick aktuell Rhein-Mosel's journalism is shaped by wine and river. The Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Mosel council's decisions on tourism infrastructure, vineyard preservation, roads, schools and village development are covered in the detail residents need, giving the valley's villages their shared record of local government.

Wine dominates the editorial year: the steep terraced slopes, the Riesling harvest, the wine festivals, the vintners' associations and the famous Winninger Moselfest. Reports on the wine queens, the cellar events and the challenges facing steep-slope viticulture, from labor to climate change, appear alongside features on the valley's wine culture.

Tourism provides constant material: the castles above the river, including the Thurant castle in Alken, the hiking trails of the Moselsteig, the river cruises and the half-timbered villages. The paper covers both the opportunities and the frictions of the visitor economy in the narrow valley.

Club life is the paper's heart: sports clubs, carnival societies, music associations, volunteer fire brigades and church congregations announce events, celebrate anniversaries and publish photographs. Service pages carry classifieds, job listings, property offers, family announcements and municipal notices, while seasonal specials give advertisers themed contexts.

The tabloid's large color photographs show the Terrassenmosel at its most beautiful: the terraced vineyards in autumn gold, the castles above the river bends, the wine festival crowds and the familiar faces of local celebrations. The tone is vinous, engaged and community-rooted.

Organization and Ownership

The publisher is KRUPP Verlags GmbH of Sinzig, the family-owned company of the Krupp family whose publishing tradition began with the Sinziger Zeitung in 1876. Hermann Krupp leads the Blick aktuell network as editor-in-chief, with Daniel Robbel as deputy editor-in-chief since 2018; Hermann Krupp and Peter Krupp serve as managing directors of the publishing house.

All 36 editions are coordinated through the central editorial desk in Sinzig, headed by Daniel Stoffel, which oversees production, layout and the digital portal. Local reporting comes from editors and freelance contributors drawn from a network-wide pool of about 100 journalists and photographers who live in the areas they cover. Along the lower Moselle, they attend council meetings, photograph the wine festivals and keep the newsroom connected to valley life.

The papers are printed in tabloid format by KRUPP Druck OHG, the family's printing company, appearing on weekdays between Tuesday and Saturday, each edition on its fixed publication day. The edition's large print run makes it one of the anchor jobs on the presses.

The paper lives entirely from advertising revenue: display ads, classifieds, inserts and special publications sold to local and regional businesses. There is no cover price and no subscription income. The company follows the German Press Code (Pressekodex), the voluntary ethical code of the German press.

Digital Presence

Blick aktuell Rhein-Mosel appears online on blick-aktuell.de, the network portal gathering the local journalism of all 36 editions in geographically organized, continuously updated sections. Readers can follow lower Moselle news daily, browse photo galleries from the wine festivals and village events, and search the archive of past coverage.

The e-paper presents the printed tabloid as a page-faithful digital replica for computers, tablets and smartphones, serving readers away on publication day and former residents following home from afar. Archived issues build a digital chronicle of the Terrassenmosel.

On social media, primarily Facebook, the Blick aktuell brand shares story links, event tips and photo galleries directly with readers. The valley's scenic content, terraced vineyards, castle views, wine festival scenes, performs strongly on social platforms, and the newsroom uses the channels to collect tips and reader photographs.

For advertisers, the publisher markets combined print, portal and social campaigns through a single sales contact. The approach reflects the company's strategy: sustain the profitable printed weekly, with its broad household coverage along the lower Moselle, while expanding the digital channels through which valley journalism will increasingly be read.