this little town, due to area restructuring combined from the two villages stadecken and elsheim in 1969, is one of the biggest
and most traditional wine growing communities in the heart of rheinhessen, germany's largest wine area. |
elsheim (the part we are living in) has a little more than 2000 inhabitants. there is a drug store, a supermarket, a liquor shop,
a post office, a little hotel, an ice cream parlor, a pizzeria, some restaurants and lots of vineyards. the twin village stadecken looks about the same (without the ice cream parlor, though,
but with an excellent italien restaurant instead). and both are only 15 minutes driving to downtown mainz. what else could you ask for? |