Wine, Rhine, and the Black Forest...
Rhodt unter Riedburg is an individual municipality with approx. 1,119 inhabitants and situated in the administrative district of Southern Wine Road in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is an accredited tourist resort.
Rhodt fascinates by its outstanding location in midst of vineyards on the edge of the Pfälzer woods and by an extraordinary view overlooking the Rhine valley. 80% of the houses in Rhodt are listed. Among them are winegrower's houses dating back to the Renaissance or Baroque, idyllic cobblestones lanes with chestnut trees as well as a „Traminerwingert“ which is considered to be 350 years old and thus the oldest vineyard in Germany.
Rhodt enlightens your culinary taste in a café, wine tavern and a restaurant. Additionally, a wide range of small seasonal wine taverns are situated in inner courtyards of beautiful old half-timbered houses. There they offer sweet yeast dumpling with vanilla sauce and "Rhodter Piff", a wine pint which is drunk out of a 1 litre glass.
The individual municipality of Rhodt was in 2002 chosen nicest village of the Wine Route and offers lots to see. If hiking or bicycling is not an activity of your choice, you can take the Rietburg chair lift up to Rietburg which lies at 505m height. From there you can overlook the whole Rhine Valley far as to the Black Forest.
A further centre of attraction is the villa „Ludwigshöhe“, which used to be summer residence of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and his wife Therese. Worth a visit is also the small Southern European Garden of Fruits, which is located in the core of Rhodt.
The municipality organizes many events like a lampion journey with the Rietburg chair lift to the castle party at Rietburg, a Wine and Art Festival as well as the Home and Flower Festival, one of the best known festivals of the German Wine Route.
More information: http://www.pfalz.de/en/frontpage/king-ludwig-s-tuscany-the-southern-wine-route
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