Oestrich-Winkel () is a town with roughly 12,000 inhabitants in the
Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''
Regierungsbezirk'' of
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...
in
Hesse,
Germany.
Geography
Location
Oestrich-Winkel, which culturally belongs to the
Rheingau
The Rheingau (; ) is a region on the northern side of the Rhine between the German towns of Wiesbaden and Lorch near Frankfurt, reaching from the Western Taunus to the Rhine. It is situated in the German state of Hesse and is part of the Rheing ...
region, lies on the
Rhine River, 19 km west-southwest of
Wiesbaden and 17 km west of
Mainz. It is, as a part of the
Rheingau wine region, the largest
winegrowing town of Hesse.
The coordinates 50°N, 8°E lie right in the
stadtteil of Winkel, whose name, coincidentally, is
German for “angle”.
Neighbouring municipalities
Oestrich-Winkel borders in the north on the town of
Lorch and the municipalities of
Welterod
Welterod is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in E ...
(
Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in
Rhineland-Palatinate),
Heidenrod and
Schlangenbad; in the east on the town of
Eltville; in the south, across the
Rhine, on the town of
Ingelheim (
Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate) and in the west on the town of
Geisenheim
Geisenheim is a town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany, and is known as ''Weinstadt'' (“Wine Town”), ''Schulstadt'' (“School Town”), ''Domstadt'' (“Cathedral Town”) and ''Lindenstad ...
.
Territorial structure
Oestrich-Winkel as a municipality consists of four
Stadtteile:
*
Hallgarten
Hallgarten is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Charles Hallgarten (1838–1908), German-American banker, philanthropist and social reformer
* George W. F. Hallgarten (1901–1975), German-American historian