It is best known for its winegrowing and its yearly international high jump meeting (the Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt).
In 1949 his son, Rudolf Bauerfeind, left Zeulenroda because of the policy of nationalisation in East Germany and rebuilt the company in western Germany, first in Darmstadt-Eberstadt and then in Kempen.
It begins in Darmstadt and, after passing through Eberstadt, splits into the "Old Bergstraße" and the "New Bergstraße", which goes somewhat further to the west.
In 1998, Eberstadt went to live on a vineyard in the French Pyrenees, outside the city of Perpignan.
Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt, an international high jump competition in Eberstadt, Germany
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