[balucci]

hello everyone from the beautiful town of ruedesheim in germany,
i´m new here and am impressed with the site.

[little sage]

Hello Balucci,

Nice to have you on the site. I think you might be the first member from Germany! Yet another place I have not yet had the chance to visit, but it is on my list What is Ruedesheim known for?

Karen

[Eric]

Welcome to the site!

[little sage]

Here is the tourist information website I found about Ruedesheim

It's such a pretty place! What am I doing in Asia?

[balucci]

asia has got other interesting places, too. like, japan is also a nice place. i also wanted to visit korea. i´ve got friends from the south and they are all very friendly.

[little sage]

Of course you are right. I do like it here in Korea, and the other countries in Asia I've been to have beautiful places, too. It's just that I've been here for 5 years and have never had the chance to go to Europe. And all the pictures I saw at the Ruedesheim site looks so clean! Granted, that site was made by the city's tourism department...

[balucci]

ruedesheim is known for its riesling wine and was named the gateway to the UNESCO world heritage site, the upper middle rhine valley. if you look at a map of germany and locate the rhine, you will see that ruedesheim lies directly at the knee (a bend) of the river. long time ago, they said that this area of the river is so shallow and rocky. so the heavy cargo ships couldn´t pass through. What they did was unload in ruedesheim, then the load was taken up the mountain by train and was transported with trucks to a town about 30 kms. away. and at that point, would then be loaded back to the ship. ruedesheim was also a stop-over of pilgrims going to spain.
it is a small town with a population of 10,000. but even if it is small, it has earned its popularity as a tourist attraction. there are so many sights to see here and variety of riesling wine to taste.