Celtanc and Raptacum - the oldest traditional names of double municipality Zeltingen-Rachtig document their Celtic origin.
Indeed, in the meantime, one can prove that already 3,500 years were inhabited before Christ shore and heights around. The first documentary mention of the places dates from 1085, and the wine-growing in the region is at least 1,800 years old with certainty.
The rose castle or castle Kuniberts above Zeltingen leads on an important historical track. Both places had up to the early 19. Jhd. in the midst of the Trierer land a special position inne: Zeltingen-Rachtig was a political enclave of the archbishopric Cologne. One awards this fact the inhabitant of Cologne archbishop Kunibert (623-663) whose natal site should be exactly that castle with Zeltingen after the tradition. It is to be owed to him, that one up to time of the French„ Chur köllnisch“ remained.
In so much clenched history becomes clear that one has to offer something to the visitor. Besides, history is only one of many headwords which indicate about what it is in this wine and holidays municipality: around wonderful, peaceful holidays in rustic, romantic surroundings, with excellent food and wines, a friendly admission by the hosts and an incomparable experience offer.
2,400 inhabitants offer in Zeltingen about 1,100 guest beds - at hotels, restaurants, pensions and with private lodging-house keepers. Do you die palette of the creation possibilities for holiday spare time dies it reaches from the song evening about association parties, wine parties, the street party up to hobby room all two-year delivered operetta festival„ Zeltinger kingdom of heaven“, you die also in 1999 again are performed. With just 2.5 millions Rebstöcken, dominating, besides, die Riesling shoot, Zeltingen-Rachtig belongs to hobby room to big wine-growing municipalities one of the Moselle; die names of the positions are borders die famously: Zeltinger kingdom of heaven, castle mountain, solar clock and German man mountain.
The parish churches Saint Stephanus in Zeltingen and Saint Marien in Rachtig, the former kurkölnische official residence (today parsonage), the castle ruins rose castle, the Zeltinger solar clock, the German man court, the medieval marketplace in Zeltingen, a cellarman's workshop and a potter workshop, numerous half-timbered houses and wine manors, the cloister property belong to the especially attractive places of interest of both places to doers with wine museum, the wine teaching path and the traffic jam step with the power station Zeltingen.
Besides the wine place and resort serves a big palette of sportily active leisure offers; they reach from water sport, tennis, mini-golf and free chess about cones, walking, trimming, fishing, riding a bike up to the rather peaceful offers in the form of protective huts, grill places, the camping site, cellar inspections and wine tests; in addition, there is a comprehensive offer of bus and ship excursions, but also a library, a television space and reading space.
Some quite special or even unique points stand out from this gigantic offer: the excellent gastronomic offer belongs to it in all areas just as the wonderful Traveling and bicycle driving possibilities. And of course the wine. Only one is absent: the opportunity to the boredom...
