EBERBACH  , a

town of Germany, in the grand-duchy of Baden, romantically situated on the Neckar, at the foot of the Katzenbuckel, 19 m . E. of Heidelberg by the railway to Wiirzburg . Pop . (1900) 5857 . It contains an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, a commercial and a technical school, and, in addition to manufacturing cigars, leather and cutlery, carries on by water an active trade in timber and wine . Eberbach was founded in 1227 by the German king Henry VII., who acquired the castle (the ruins of which overhang the town) from the bishop of Worms . It became an imperial town and passed later to the Palatinate . See Wirth, Geschichte der Stadt Eberbach (Stuttgart, 1864) . EBERBACH, a famous Cistercian monastery of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, situated near Hattenheim in the Rheingau, ro m . N.W. from Wiesbaden . Founded in 1116 by Archbishop Adalbert of Mainz, as a house of Augustinian canons regular, it was bestowed by him in 1131 upon the Benedictines, but was shortly afterwards repurchased and conferred upon the Cistercian order . The Romanesque church (consecrated in 1186) contains numerous interesting monuments and tombs, notable among them being those of the archbishop of Main; Gerlach (d .

1371) and Adolph II. of Nassau (d . 1475) . It was despoiled during the

Thirty Years' War, was secularized in 1803, and now serves as a house of correction . Its cellars contain some of the finest vintages of the Rhine wines of the locality . See Bar, Di pl omatische Geschichte der A btei Eberbach (Wiesb.,1851-1858 and 1886, 3 vols.), and Schafer, Die Abtei Eberbach im Mittel-alter (Berlin, 1901) .