The plans for the Rheingauviertel, whose street names are based on the 12th so-called Taufbezirk, go back to a report by Karlsruhe city planner Reinhard Baumeister from 1894. This envisaged a residential area on the other side of Bismarck- and Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring, but was only partially implemented. The Wiesbaden city architect Felix Genzmer also had an influence.

Rauenthaler, Rheingauer, Erbacher, Eltviller, Kiedricher, Marcobrunner and Winkeler Strasse were built first, followed by Hallgarter and Johannisberger Strasse in 1906. The street layout is irregular, the only axis being Rüdesheimer Straße, which was built from around 1900. Of the two original squares, Germaniaplatz (now Karlsbader Platz) and Wallufer Platz, only the latter remains, albeit in a modified form. In 1906, a general plan by city planning officer Karl Frobenius already projected the street network as far as Aßmannshäuser Straße. However, planning stagnated in 1907/08 due to the rise in mortgage interest rates and was only resumed after the First World War. This was also the beginning of the era of social housing: in 1926-28, 528 apartments with spacious courtyards for gardening and leisure activities were built in the Rheingauviertel. In 1930, the expansion of the Rhiengauviertel to the west between Loreleiring and Aßmannshäuser Straße began.

The styles of the buildings are also very different, reflecting the various planning and development phases of the Rhiengauviertel. Before the First World War, the four-storey apartment buildings were "characterized by a partly baroque, partly old-fashioned eclecticism" (Russ). Front gardens, large balconies and accompanying rows of trees characterize the appearance. At up to 200^m2 and a room height of 3.50 m, the apartments were of considerable size. In contrast to these buildings, the traditionalist style of social housing in the Weimar Republic still had historicizing elements, while the construction projects carried out after 1930 on Oestricher Strasse, Kauber Strasse (architect Rudolf Dörr) and Mittelheimer Strasse were characterized by great simplicity.