Hochheim am Main
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Hochheim am Main is a town in the Main-Taunus district of the state of Hessen, Germany
Germany
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. It is located near the right bank of the Main River
Main river
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 three miles above the branch into the Rhine, as well as on the German Framework Road
German Framework Road
The German Timber-Frame Road is a German tourist route leading from the river Elbe in the north to Lake Constance in the south. Along the road you can find nearly 100 cities and towns with remarkable timber-framed houses...

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Historical reference to Hochheim can be found, in the chronicles, as early as the 8th century. Hochheim is the site of an Austrian military victory over the French Empire
First French Empire
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 on November 7, 1813.

Located in the Rheingau
Rheingau
The Rheingau is the hill country on the north side of the Rhine River between Wiesbaden and Lorch near Frankfurt, reaching from the western Taunus to the Rhine. It lies in the state of Hesse and is part of the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis administrative district...

, Hochheim has historically been a center of trade in wine
Wine
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. The English
English language
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 word Hock, a generic term for Rhine wine, is derived from Hochheim.

Children of Hochheim attend school in Hochheim until the 10th grade. After 10th grade if they choose to continue with a gymnasium, they have to attend schools outside of Hochheim in Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...

 or Mainz
Mainz
Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

. Hochheim's sister city is Le Pontet
Le Pontet, Vaucluse
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