was also Guldenzoll). Owing to the especially favourable climate and good soil conditions on the Bergstraße, mainly dry and dryish wines of very high quality are made here. The main variety is Riesling. The biggest producer is the Bergsträßer Winzer eG cooperative, with its seat in Heppenheim, which also owns Hesse's biggest wine cellar. The Bergsträßer Staatsweingut (“state wine estate”) with its seat in Bensheim maintains the Hessischer Rebmuttergarten (“Vineyard Mother Garden”), formerly a vineyard cultivation facility whose goal was to fight the phylloxera, introduced from North America but only cropping up on the Bergstraße itself in 2005, by grafting phylloxera-proof hybrid rootstocks onto vines of nobler varieties. At the Bergsträßer Winzer eG begins the 6.9 km-long Erlebnispfad Wein und Stein (“Wine and Stone Adventure Path”), which runs through the vineyards with 30 stations. Education The Odenwaldschule, once Germany's oldest comprehensive school, was in the Ober-Hambach section of Heppenheim. It was founded by Edith and Paul Geheeb in 1910 and was based on their concept of holistic education reform, integrating work of the head and hand. The boarding school used to have up to 250 pupils. After a scandal about sexual abuse cases in the 1970s and 1980s and attempts to save the institution, it was closed in 2015. There are plans for renovating the location. Heppenheim is also home to the European Hotel Academy. Notable people Heimann Stern (Henry Starr) (1817-1900 Zanesville, USA), ancestor of American actor, director, producer Fisher Stevens Marianne Cope (1838–1918), nun, canonized Judith Buber Agassi (1924–2018), sociologist Horst Antes (born 1936), painter Jürgen W. Falter (born 1944), political scientist Jürgen Groh (born 1956), footballer Franz Lambert (born 1948), musician, composer and organist Erwin Schwab (born 1964), discoverer of numerous minor planets Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim (born 1987), chemist and science communicator Sebastian Vettel (born 1987), 4-time Formula One world champion Associated with the town Martin Buber, Jewish religious philosopher, lived here from 1916 to 1938 Justus von Liebig, chemist, 10-month teaching stint in Heppenheim (1818/19) Hans Baumgartner, long jumper, Olympic medalist Bernhard Trares, football player and manager Honorary citizens Wilhelm Metzendorf, Mayor from 1954 to 1973 Ludwig Oberndorf, editor-in-chief from 1947 to 1961 of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold (certificate: 17 June 1963) Otto Ferrari, Sanitätsrat (a title of honour given a doctor) (certificate: 20 February 1947) Elise Fillauer, for her 100th birthday (certificate: 7 September 1954) Ferdinand Feuerbach, American. For hearty donations to his