ELTVILLE or ELFELD, town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, on the right bank of the Rhine, 5 m. S.W. from Wiesbaden, on the railway Frankfort-on-Main-Cologne. Pop. Eltville (originally Adeldvile, Lat. Altavilla), is first mentioned in a record of the year 882, was given by the emperor Otto I. to the archbishops of Mainz, and received town rights in 1331. In 1465 Gutenberg set up his press at Eltville, and several examples of printed books issued by this press survive, the earliest being the Vocabularium Latino-Teutonicum, first printed in 1467. Eltville was once capital of the Rheingau and has ruins of a feudal castle, and a monument to Gutenberg. It has a con siderable trade in the wines of the district and two manufactories of sparkling wines.