Rupertsberg (Bingen am Rhein)

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The Rupertsberg in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate is a rocky outcrop , located at the mouth of the Nahe in the Rhine rises on the left near side and front of the building of the Nahe Valley Railway through the Rhine-Nahe Railway Company reached to the river bank. Politically, the Rupertsberg belongs to the Bingerbrück district of Bingen .

The mountain became famous through the founding of the monastery of Saint Hildegard von Bingen , who founded her first monastery there, the Rupertsberg Monastery . The name itself goes back to Rupert von Bingen (712-732), who was venerated as a saint .

literature

  • Charlotte Kerner : All the beauty of heaven: The life story of Hildegard von Bingen (= Gulliver paperbacks , Bd. 824). Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 2009, ISBN 340778824X , p. 105.
  • Julia-Maria Warkentin: The influence of women's mysticism on the development of the German language . GRIN, Munich / Ravensburg 2011, ISBN 3656042284 , p. 8.
  • Werner Schäfke: The Rhine from Mainz to Cologne: A journey through the romantic Rhine Valley . DuMont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3770147995 , p. 79.

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '56.9 "  N , 7 ° 53' 21.1"  E