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5 unusual facts about Bingen


Bubenheim, Mainz-Bingen

The winemaking centre belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Gau-Algesheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Hillesheim, Mainz-Bingen

In Ludwig Roselius’s Coffee Hag albums from the early 20th century, Hillesheim’s arms are shown in somewhat different tinctures.

Von Bingen

Rupert of Bingen (712–732), German Roman Catholic saint and son of Bertha of Bingen

Bertha of Bingen (died ca. 757), German Roman Catholic saint and mother of Rupert of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen (1098 – 1179), German Roman Catholic saint, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath


Alsenz Valley Railway

On Sundays and public holidays in the summer, the Rheintalexpress runs on the Bingen–Enkenbach section to Karlsruhe and the Weinstraßen-Express runs to Wissembourg, each stopping in Enkenbach, Rockhausen, Bad Münster and Bad Kreuznach and each consisting of push–pull trains hauled by class 218 locomotives or class 628 diesel multiple units.

Caspar Riffel

Caspar Riffel (January 19, 1807 in Budesheim, Bingen, Germany – December 15, 1856) was a historian.

Christian Erbach

Erbach was born in Gau-Algesheim, Mainz-Bingen, now in the Rhineland-Palatinate Bundesland, and began to study musical composition at a considerably young age.

Genheim

Genheim is a village and an Ortsteil (subdivision) of the municipality Waldalgesheim in the district Mainz-Bingen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Jan Claus

In 1669 with Steven Crisp (1628-1692), a Friend from Colchester, who from 1663 onwards would every year visit Amsterdam, he travelled on a preaching tour to a series of towns along the Rhine: Cologne, Bonn, Metz, Bingen, Bacharach and Kriegsheim.

Kēlen

Kēlen is mentioned prominently by Sarah L Higley in her book Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language: An edition, translation and discussion (Palgrave Macmillan 2007, The New Middle Ages ISBN 1-4039-7673-2, ISBN 978-1-4039-7673-4) where she discusses Lingua Ignota in the context of constructed languages up to the present day.

Laudert

Nearby, the two Roman roads, the one between Bingen and Koblenz and the one between Oberwesel and Treis, crossed each other, leading to the assumption that the complex was likely built in Roman times.

Lennebergwald

The approximately 700 ha sized stretches north-west of Mainz between the urban districts of Mombach, Gonsenheim, Finthen and the municipalities of Budenheim and Heidesheim am Rhein in the district of Mainz-Bingen.

Mattithiah Ahrweiler

Mattithiah officiated as rabbi at Bingen (Jacob Popper, "Responsa," ii., No. 8, Frankfort, 1742), and subsequently at Mannheim, where he taught in the college (see Klaus) founded by Lemle Moses.

Mittelrhein

Middle Rhine (German: Mittelrhein), the Rhine River between Bingen and Bonn, Germany

Philippe Tailliez

On 20 January 1955 he was designated Commander of the Northern Rhine Flotilla and of the building base "the Vosges" at Koblenz-Bingen in Germany and took its command with the centre of the Maritime Forces of the Rhine on April 24.

Rhenish Hesse

It is a hilly countryside largely devoted to vineyards, therefore it is also called the "land of the thousand hills." Its larger towns include: Mainz, Worms, Bingen, Alzey, Nieder-Olm and Ingelheim.

Rhine romanticism

The steel engraving with a view on Bingen and the Rhine-Nahe corner from the other side of the Rhine first appeared in this publication.

Rödern

Along the municipality’s northern outskirts, about a kilometre from the village centre, runs the well constructed Bundesstraße 50 between Bitburg and Bingen, over which the nearest Autobahn interchange, at Rheinböllen, on the A 61, can be reached, 20 km to the east.

Saucon Creek

Saucon Creek starts in Lower Milford Township, flows to the northeast passing through the communities of Limeport, Bingen, and Hellertown, and joins the Lehigh River in Bethlehem.

Staudernheim station

Staudernheim station is a through station, located 35.3 km from Bingen on the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken), in Staudernheim in the district of Bad Kreuznach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Walluf

In the south, the Rhine forms the boundary with the community of Budenheim (Mainz-Bingen in Rhineland-Palatinate).


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