ELTVILLE (ELFELD)  , a 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, and with a branch to Schlangenbad . Pop . 3700 . It has a Roman Catholic and a Protestant church, ruins of a feudal castle, a Latin school, and a monument to Gutenberg . It has a considerable trade in the wines of the district and two manufactories of sparkling wines . Eltville (originally Adeldvile, Lat . Altavilla) is first mentioned in a record of the year 882 . It was given'by the emperor Otto I. to the archbishops of Mainz, who often resided here . It received town rights in 1331 and was a place of importance during the middle ages . In 1465 Gutenberg set up his press at Eltville, under the patronage of Archbishop Adolphus of Nassau, shortly afterwards handing over its use to the brothers Heinrich and Nikolaus Bechtermiinz . Several costly early examples of printed books issued by this press survive, the earliest being the Vocabularium Latino-Teutonicum, first printed in 1467 .