The history of the city of Heidelberg is closely linked to viticulture.
Nestled in the chain of hills of the Bergstrasse and protected from cold easterly winds by the Odenwald, Heidelberg benefits from a mild climate and offers vines on sun-drenched slopes everything they need to thrive and produce high-quality wines.
How long this connection has existed can only be guessed at. What is certain is that wine was already being cultivated in what is now the Heidelberg district of Rohrbach in 766. The donation of a vineyard was recorded in the Lorsch Codex in that year. And to this day, viticulture is particularly present here in the south of the city. For some years now, this has also been reflected in the Rohrbach Wine and Culture Experience Trail. On a circular route of about 8 km, almost 30 panels in the vineyards present interesting facts about wine, grape varieties, geology, climate, history and life culture as well as flora and fauna of the region. Several family-run wineries cultivate the surrounding vineyards and present their products at the Rohrbach Wine Festival.
The “Heidelberg Autumn” opens with the participation of the Heidelberg Wine Princess and Perkeo, the former keeper of the Great Cask, the largest wine cask in the world in Heidelberg Castle.
The Heidelberg wine village awaits you in the heart of the old town.
Nestled in the hills of the Bergstrasse and protected from cold easterly winds by the Odenwald, Heidelberg benefits from a mild climate and offers vines on sun-drenched slopes everything they need to thrive and produce high-quality wines. Heidelberg is therefore the ideal place for good wine!
For the fourth time, the Heidelberg Wine Village from 2 – 13 October 2024 offers the opportunity to get to know the culinary delights of Heidelberg in the heart of the Old Town in addition to the city’s sights.
The Heidelberg Wine Village is open from 3.00 pm on the opening day and from 11.00 am to 9.00 pm on all other days.
And for all those who would like to take the good wines home with them or give them as a gift, the “Heidelberg Triad” set, consisting of three exquisite Heidelberg wines – one bottle each from the Bauer, Clauer and Winter wineries – is a delicious idea.
Romantic and idyllic – cosmopolitan and dynamic: Heidelberg effortlessly combines seemingly opposites.
Hardly any other European city has been sung about as much as Heidelberg. The mysterious castle ruins, the picturesque old town, an – as Goethe wrote – “ideal scenic location”: all this attracted the German Romantics in the 19th century, who immortalised Heidelberg in poetry, music and painting.
Heidelberg was the residential city of German electors and was a focal point of German history for centuries. Names of noble families such as Wittelsbach, Stuart or Medici, of theologians such as Martin Luther or politicians such as Friedrich Ebert are associated with it.
In 1386, Elector Ruprecht founded the first university on German soil in Heidelberg, which still shapes inner-city life today.
Discovery tours in the old town, walks to the Old Bridge and along the Philosophers’ Path or visits to the castle and the many museums bring this exciting history back to life.
Culture is the pulse of Heidelberg. Hardly any other city of comparable size in Germany affords such a multifaceted and extensive cultural programme as Heidelberg – from the music festival “Heidelberger Frühling” to the summer castle festival and the jazz festival “Enjoy Jazz”. And not to forget: The Heidelberg Castle Illuminations with grand fireworks and the wonderful Heidelberg Christmas Market as an atmospheric end to the year!
For all its romanticism and tradition, Heidelberg is lively, as befits a university town. For night owls, the city offers numerous entertaining meeting places, ranging from quaint student pubs, nightclubs, jazz clubs and music clubs to regional and international restaurants and top gastronomy.
The author Saša Stanišić, who was awarded the German Book Prize 2020, wrote about the city where he spent his childhood and youth as a refugee: “Only cities where olive trees grow dry after the rain as beautifully as Heidelberg.”
See you soon in… Heidelberg!
