Bingen am Rhein is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Bingen am Rhein
Bingen and Bingerbrück from the Elisenhöhe (heights)
Outlying centre of Büdesheim
Klopp Castle
Hildegard of Bingen, also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been considered by a number of scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.
Illumination from Hildegard's Scivias (1151) showing her receiving a vision and dictating to teacher Volmar
Scivias I.6: The Choirs of Angels. From the Rupertsberg manuscript, folio 38r.
The Church, the Bride of Christ and Mother of the Faithful in Baptism. Illustration to Scivias II.3, fol. 51r from the 20th-century facsimile of the Rupertsberg manuscript, c. 1165–1180.
Excerpt from a 12th century manuscript, preserved in the Ghent University Library