Eltville

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Eltville
Eltville am Rhein
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Location of Eltville within Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis district
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Eltville
Coordinates: 50°1′32″N8°7′9″E / 50.02556°N 8.11917°E / 50.02556; 8.11917
Country Germany
State Hesse
Admin. region Darmstadt
District Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis
Subdivisions5 districts
Government
   Mayor (202430) Patrick Kunkel [1] (CDU)
Area
  Total46.77 km2 (18.06 sq mi)
Elevation
95 m (312 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31) [2]
  Total17,112
  Density370/km2 (950/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
65343–65347
Dialling codes 06123,
06723 (Hattenheim)
Vehicle registration RÜD
Website www.eltville.de

Eltville am Rhein (from Alta Villa, Latin for "high estate, high town", corrupted to Eldeville, Elfeld and later Eltville, German pronunciation: [ˈɛltvɪlə] ) is a town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. It lies on the German Timber-Frame Road (Fachwerkstraße).

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Eltville is the largest town in the Rheingau. It bears the nicknames Weinstadt, Sektstadt, Rosenstadt and since 2006 also Gutenbergstadt. Some of Germany's most famous vineyards (Steinberg, Rauenthaler Baiken, Erbacher Marcobrunn) are found within Eltville's municipal limits.

Geography

Location

Eltville, which belongs culturally to the Rheingau region, lies on the River Rhine, 12 km west-southwest of Wiesbaden.

Neighbouring municipalities

Eltville borders in the north on the municipalities of Schlangenbad and Kiedrich, in the east on the district-free city of Wiesbaden and the municipality of Walluf, in the south – separated by the Rhine – on the municipalities of Budenheim und Heidesheim and the town of Ingelheim (all three in Mainz-Bingen in Rhineland-Palatinate) and in the west on the town of Oestrich-Winkel.

Territorial structure

Eltville am Rhein as a municipality consists of five Stadtteile:

All of them have the status as an Ortsbezirk.

History

The earliest traces of humans settling here go back to the New Stone Age. There has been continuous habitation since the late 4th century. Eltville had its first documentary mention in Vita Bardonis (Bardo's life) from 1058, a biography of Archbishop Bardo of Mainz. In 1329, the castle and the town wall around Eltville were built. On 23 August 1332, Emperor Louis the Bavarian granted Eltville town rights. With the granting of town rights, Eltville ended up being a pawn in the then ongoing dispute between the Emperor and the Pope. Archbishop Baldwin, one of Emperor Louis's followers and administrator of the Mainz monastery, was the one who asked for Eltville to be raised to town. From 1347 to 1480, Eltville was the residence of the Archbishops of Mainz. In 1349, Günther of Schwarzburg was defeated in his bid for the German throne at the Siege of Eltville. From Dietrich Schenk von Erbach, Archbishop of Mainz (1434–1459), the outlying centre of Erbach presumably got its name.

Politics

Town council

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Tower at Eltville Castle
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View of the village of Rauenthal

The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:

Parties and voter communities %
2006
Seats
2006
 %
2001
Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union 44.01645.517
SPD Social Democratic Party 30.11129.211
GREENS Bündnis 90/Die Grünen 9.8410.74
FDP Free Democratic Party 5.025.22
BLBürgerliste7.035.42
REP The Republicans 4.11
WOKWählergemeinschaft Opitz-Kaldenberg4.01
Total100.037100.037
Voter turnout in %54.451.3

Town partnerships

The town of Eltville am Rhein maintains partnerships with these places:

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

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Crass Castle in Eltville
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Eltville's Burgstrasse with typical timber-frame houses
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Eltville Castle
Eltville Castle c. 1832 (engraving after William Tombleson) Tombleson Eltville.jpg
Eltville Castle c. 1832 (engraving after William Tombleson)
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Rosengarten, a rose garden between the high walls of the Eltville Castle
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Roses on the banks of the Rhine
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Commemorative plaque for Johannes Gutenberg

Regular events

Economy and infrastructure

Economy and tourism

Eltville is developed for tourists, and well known for its wine and sekt production, which can be sampled at many wineries and Straußwirtschaften (seasonal wine shops). Eltville is the headquarters of MM-Sektkellerei (which today belongs to Rotkäppchen-Sekt), Hessische Staatsweingüter Kloster Eberbach (Hessian State Wine Estates of Eberbach Monastery), and Sektmanufaktur Schloss Vaux, as well as the biggest industrial employer in the Rheingau, Jean Müller GmbH Elektrotechnische Fabrik. Eltville is one of Germany's ten "Rosenstädte" (rose towns).

Transport

Eltville lies on Bundesstraße 42, which towards the east is built like an Autobahn and near Walluf seamlessly joins the A 66. Eltville station also lies on the East Rhine Railway, which connects Frankfurt and Wiesbaden to Koblenz and Cologne and belongs to the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. On the Rhine's bank are several landing stages for, among others, the Köln-Düsseldorfer Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt, a well known Rhine passenger ship operator.

Education

Notable people

Sons and daughters of the town

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Panoramic view of Eltville am Rhein


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References

  1. "Ergebnis der Bürgermeisterwahl 2024" (in German). Stadt Eltville am Rhein. 10 June 2024.
  2. "Bevölkerung in Hessen am 31.12.2022 nach Gemeinden" (XLS) (in German). Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. June 2023.