Bingen, Germany Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Despite its imposing setting at the point where the Nahe joins the Rhine, BINGEN is generally regarded as something of a poor relation of Rüdesheim on the latter's opposite bank. Nonetheless, its star has been in the ascendant of late because of the burgeoning interest in one of the great female figures of the European Middle Ages, Abbess Hildegard of Bingen . The extensive programme of events marking the 900th anniversary of Hildegard's birth brought a permanent memorial in the form of a wide-ranging display on her life and career in the new Historisches Museum am Strom (Tues–Sun … more »