RÜDESHEIM

rüˈdəs-hīmˌ, town (1994 pop. 10,282), Hesse, W central Germany, on the Rhine River. Vineyards in the area produce some of the most noted Rhine wines, and Rüdesheim is the center of the region's wine trade. It was first mentioned in the 9th cent. Nearby is the Brömserburg (10th cent.), a castle (now a museum) once used by the archbishops of Mainz.

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books on: RUdesheim  - 57 results

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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson - Vol. 17
Book by Andrew A. Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh, Thomas Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States, 1905
Subjects: United States--Politics And Government--1775-1783, United States--Politics And Government--1783-1865
...speckled trout. The plains from Maintz to Rudesheim are good and in corn; the hills mostly...river indefinitely; yet it is only from Rudesheim to Hocheim that wines of the very first...it is only Hocheim, Johansberg, and Rudesheim, that are considered as of the very...
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The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon: The 1837 Diary of Felix and Cecile Mendelssohn Bartholdy Together with Letters to Their Families
Book by Peter Jones Ward, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; Oxford University, 1997
Subjects: Composers--Germany--Diaries, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Cecile--1817-1853--Correspondence, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Cecile--1817-1853--Diaries, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix--1809-1847--Correspondence, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix--1809-1847--Diaries
...Eibingen, 2 deserted buildings above Rudesheim. The old nuns are dead. The spirit...men 3 see Felixs sketchbook . Tea in Rudesheim on the way back in the Engel 4 with the...village lying on the slopes just above Rudesheim. The old convent, founded by St Hildegard...
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Jefferson: The Scene of Europe, 1784 to 1789
Book by Marie Kimball; Coward-McCann, 1950
Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas--1743-1826
...making it in three and a half hours to Rudesheim." 45 Here Jefferson stopped, not so...stivers. "Its fine wines," he writes of Rudesheim, "are made on the hills about a mile...excessively steep. . . . The vignerons of Rudesheim dung their vines about once in five or...
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Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II
Book by Belton Y. Cooper; Presidio Press, 1998
Subjects: Cooper, Belton Y, Sherman Tank, Soldiers--United States--Biography, United States--Army--Biography, United States--Army--Ordnance And Ordnance Stores, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American, World War, 1939-1945--Tank Warfare
...the family of a German music teacher in Rudesheim, a small village on the east bank of...from Mainz. The day they arrived in Rudesheim on the train from Berlin, the Germans...looked at my map and discovered that Rudesheim was only about seventy-five miles from...
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In the Year 1096: The First Crusade and the Jews
Book by Robert Chazan; Jewish Publication Society, 1996
Subjects: Crusades--First, 1096-1099, Germany--Ethnic Relations, Jews--Germany--History--1096-1147, Jews--Persecutions--Germany
...me. He is not in the city, for he went to the village of Rudesheim. He sent us here to save the remnant of you that remains...to the place where the archbishop was, in the village of Rudesheim. The archbishop was exceedingly happy over R. Kalonymous...
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journal articles on: RUdesheim  - 4 results

 
 
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Training for Peace Support Operations
Journal article by Benjamin C. Freakley, Kevin C. M Benson, Frederick S. Rudesheim, Brian J. Butcher; Military Review, Vol. 78, 1998
Subjects: Armed forces, Army-US, Military personnel, Military training, Peacekeeping forces
Training for Peace Support Operations by Benjamin C. Freakley , Kevin C. M Benson , Frederick S. Rudesheim , Brian J. Butcher Peacekeeping is not a mission for a soldier but only a soldier can do it. -Dag Hammarskjold 16 APRIL 1998...
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2008 Tool Tour to Germany
Journal article by Elton W. Hall; The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc., 2009
Subjects: Art galleries & museums, Associations, Early American Industries Association Inc, Germany, Handicrafts, Memberships, Tools, Travel
...with a newly forged spike. Proceeding west to the Rhine, we escaped industry for a while by a cruise down the Rhine from Rudesheim to St. Goarshausen, passing many a castle and vineyard, the Lorelei Rock, and heavy water-borne and rail traffic. Fellow...
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The Socio-economic Relations of Warfare and the Military Mortality Crises of the Thirty Years' War
Journal article by Quentin Outram; Medical History, Vol. 45, 2001
...here that poor people are found dead with grass in their mouths".58 Elsewhere, the comments are less stereotyped: at Rudesheim near Mainz, "His Excellency gave some relief to these poor wretches who were so starved that they struggled with one another...
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From Exhibit to Exhibitionism: Recent Polynesian Presentations of "Otherness"
Journal article by Nicholas Thomas; The Contemporary Pacific, Vol. 8, 1996
Subjects: Oceania
...draft of the paper; a somewhat different version was read at a conference on Anthropology and the Question of the Other at Rudesheim, Germany, in May 1995; I am grateful to Karl-Heinz Kohl and Tullio Maranbao for inviting me to participate. Most of...


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magazine articles on: RUdesheim  - 3 results

 
 
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Wine Connects: The Rhineland Wince Culture
Magazine article by Stephen J. Osmond; World and I, Vol. 13, August 1998
Subjects: Germany, Wine industry--Germany, Wineries--Germany, Wineries--History
...due west around Mainz, continues past Rudesheim to Bingen, then turns north toward Koblenz...restaurant and hotel in the Drosselgasse in Rudesheim. She exudes energy, darting back and...reason." Her comment is instructive. Rudesheim is the biggest tourism town on the Rhine...
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Time Travelers
Magazine article by Joseph Schickel; Commonweal, Vol. 122, June 2, 1995
Subjects: Choral singing--Appreciation, Churches, Catholic--Austria, Kiedrich, Austria--Churches, mosques, synagogues, etc.
...five voices touring and performing from Rudesheim to Rome. Dr. Helmut Roehrig, a vibrant...in the cafe of the Rebstock Hotel in Rudesheim. We carried our luggage down steep flights...the lovely narrow, cobbled streets of Rudesheim. We are headed for the village of Kiedrich...
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Fight Club: Excessive Force Nearly Lost Us the Iraq War. the Brass Who Gave the Orders Still Don't Get It
Magazine article by Thomas E. Ricks; Washington Monthly, Vol. 40, August 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Warrior King: The Triumph and Betrayal of an American Commander in Iraq (Autobiography)--Book reviews, Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story (Autobiography)--Book reviews
...spectacularly bad relationship with his brigade commander, Colonel Fred Rudesheim, who he thought was a wimp. "I neither trusted nor respected him," he writes. Rudesheim repeatedly instructed Sassaman to operate less aggressively and with...


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newspaper articles on: RUdesheim  - 67 results

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Oberammergau; Travel Offers
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), September 24, 2009
...Rhine Gorge in the delightful riverside town of Rudesheim. Holiday Itinerary Day 1 UK to Liege, Day 2...Oberammergau (B,L,D), Day 4 Oberammergau to Rudesheim (B,D), Day 5 Rudesheim (B,D), Day 6 Rudesheim to Belgium (B...
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Open-Air Merriment; German Fests Mark Holidays with Echoes of Centuries Past
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 20, 2003
...small Rhine River towns of Eltville and Rudesheim. Eltville has a sweet little market...movie "The Sign of the Rose." The Rudesheim market runs down the main street of town...visit the vineyards. In the hills above Rudesheim is the Abbey of Hildegard von Bingen...
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Rivercruises Onboard the Mps Amsterdam
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), April 19, 2009
Subjects: Water transportation
...Ports of Call:Andemach, Koblenz, Rudesheim, Germesheim, Strasbourg, Breisach...Call:Andermach, Cochem, Boppard, Rudesheim, Frankfurt,Mainz, Mannheim, Kiblenz...crossings, Ports of Call:Andernach, Rudesheim, Boppard, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne...
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Down the Rhine on the Mother Ship; Thirty-Five Years after Their Last Trip, Miranda Seymour and Her Mother Sail along Europe's Most Scenic River
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 14, 2010
...promised sights in Strasbourg, Koblenz, Rudesheim, Wiesbaden, Nierstein, Speyer and...next stop proved the perfect antidote. Rudesheim offered up rows of pretty cobbled streets...song of a nightingale. Looming over Rudesheim is the Niederwald Monument, a mighty...
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Into the Land of Fairy Tales
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 4, 2011
Subjects: Water transportation
...Sailing down the Rhine, we stopped at Rudesheim, whose pretty cobbled streets, restaurants...attract three million visitors a year. Rudesheim is in the heart of the German wine country...sounds of modern life faded. Between Rudesheim and Koblenz there isnt a single bridge...
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encyclopedia articles on: RUdesheim  - 2 results

 
 
1.
RÜdesheim
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RUDESHEIM ru d s-him , town (1994 pop. 10,282), Hesse, W central Germany...Vineyards in the area produce some of the most noted Rhine wines, and Rudesheim is the center of the regions wine trade. It was first mentioned in the...
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Taunus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Feldberg. The Taunus is covered by forests. Its southern slopes, the Rheingau region, have famous vineyards, notably at Rudesheim, Johannisberg, Biebrich, and Kastel. Wiesbaden, Bad Nauheim, and Bad Homburg are the best known of the many mineral...


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