Rudesheim Hotels

Rudesheim is a winemaking town in the Rhine, Germany. It is officially known as Rudesheim am Rhein, which distinguishes it from Rüdesheim an der Nahe.
It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. It lies in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, On 1 January 1818, Rudesheim received town rights. After Prussia annexed the Duchy of Nassau in 1867 and divided the area into districts, Rudesheim became a district seat in the newly founded Rheingaukreis. This status it held for 110 years until 1977, when in the course of municipal reform in Hesse the districts of the Rheingaukreis and the Untertaunuskreis were merged into the new Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, and Rudesheim had to yield the district seat to Bad Schwalbach. However, owing to its widespread recognizability, the old car licence designation RUD came through the shift in district alignment unchanged, despite all the existing rules that would have seen SWA become the new district’s designation. In 1877, the first foundation stone for the Niederwalddenkmal, which would be finished in 1883, was laid. This patriotic monument drew a great many tourists, who at that time reached the site high above the town on a cog railway, although nowadays it is a gondola lift that brings visitors up to the monument. Tourism is more and more displacing shipping as a source of income. In 1970, a single was released under the title Rüdesheim liegt nicht an der Themse .The artist was British hit singer David Garrick, who had a great hit with this song.