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Eltville am Rhein (Eltville on the Rhine river) is a town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Hesse, Germany. The name, despite ending on "ville", is not French, but stems from "Alta Villa". Eltville is known for its wine, Champaign, and roses. Some of the most renown German wineyards are located within the city limits (Steinberg, Rauenthaler Baiken, Erbacher Marcobrunn). Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (transliterated as Laender in English, singular Land). ... Hesse (German: Hessen) is one of Germanys sixteen federal states (Bundesländer) and has an area of 21,110 km² and just over six million inhabitants. ... A Regierungsbezirk is an administrative region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). ... Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hessen in Germany. ... There are 439 German districts, administrative units in Germany. ... Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic. ... German Postleitzahl map of the first two digits Postal codes in Germany, known as Postleitzahl (pl. ... see also Telephone numbering plan of Germany for further codes including service numbers, cell phones etc. ... German car number plates show the place where the car carrying them is registered. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... This article needs cleanup. ... This page as shown in the aol 9. ... Loreley At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein, Italian: Reno) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ... Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. ... Hesse (German: Hessen) is one of Germanys sixteen federal states (Bundesländer) and has an area of 21,110 km² and just over six million inhabitants. ... Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of grapes and grape juice. ... A view of Champaign from above (see wider view). ... Species About 100, see text A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. ...

Geography

In addition to Eltville proper, the following villages are part of thr city:

• Erbach
• Hattenheim
• Martinsthal
• Rauenthal

The next larger city is Wiesbaden, about 10 km to the east. Culturally, Eltville belongs to the Rheingau region. Wiesbaden is a city in central Germany. ... The Rheingau is the hill country on the right side of the Rhine between Wiesbaden and Rüdesheim, reaching from the western Taunus to the Rhine. ...

History

The first mention of Eltville is from 1058.

Map of Eltville on the Rhine river.

Tower of the Eltville castle.

External links

• Rheingau Daily Photo Blog