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24-695: Münster-Sarmsheim lies between Bingen and Bad Kreuznach , on the river Nahe some two kilometres upstream from where it empties into the Rhine . The winegrowing centre belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-Nahe , whose seat is in Bingen am Rhein , although that town is not within its bounds. The council is made up of 21 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus: (as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004) The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess, Or

48-714: A Prussian border station built by the Rhenish Railway Company on its West Rhine Railway , whilst the station in town belonged to the Hessian Ludwig Railway . The stops at Drususbrücke on the Bingen Hbf-Bad Kreuznach line and Bingen-Kempten and Büdesheim-Dromersheim on the Bingen/Rhein Stadt– Alzey line are no longer served. Bingen lies next to Autobahnen A 60 and A 61 , which are linked to

72-745: A low mountain range), which rises west of the town. Rising to the north on the other side of the Rhine is the Rheingau range, the Taunus 's southwesternmost outcrop. In Bingen the river Nahe empties into the Rhine Gorge . Bingen forms the southern limit of the UNESCO Rhine Gorge World Heritage Site . The Rochusberg (mountain) is nearly completely surrounded by the town site. (each time at 31 December) Even before

96-407: A minster with central block and wings on each side, each of the three with a gabled roof, each wing with a flanking buttress, and each roof ensigned with a cross, the one on the central block further ensigned with the head of an abbot's staff sinister sable, all windows, two in the central block and one each in the wings, and the door in the central block of the field, and gules two arrows in saltire of

120-482: A series of informative archaeological finds and the re-evaluation of literary sources, the Limesfall no longer appears to have been a simple historical event, but a multi-layered, complex phenomenon whose historical linkages have not yet been fully understood. Because written sources are largely absent or of dubious reliability, research often relies on archaeological findings, which can be interpreted differently. In

144-539: Is twinned with: Limesfall The Limesfall is the name given to the abandonment of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes (built in 1st century) in the mid-3rd century AD by the Romans and the withdrawal of imperial troops from the provinces on the far side of the rivers Rhine and Danube to the line of those rivers. It is sometimes called the fall of the limes . As a result of

168-755: Is Aetherius's gravestone, which can still be seen in Saint Martin's Basilica. After the fall of the Limes , the town became a Frankish royal estate and passed in 983 by the Donation of Verona from Otto II to Archbishop Willigis of Mainz. Under Otto III the Binger Kammerforst (forest) came into being. Under Willigis, some way up the river Nahe, the stone Drususbrücke (bridge) was built. The inhabitants of Bingen strove time and again for independence, which led in 1165 through disputes between

192-646: The Congress of Vienna , the town passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse -Darmstadt while today's outlying centre of Bingerbrück went to Prussia 's Rhine Province , making Bingen a border town until 1871, when the German Empire was founded. On 7 June 1969, the formerly Prussian municipality of Bingerbrück was amalgamated. On 22 April 1972 came Dromersheim's and Sponsheim's amalgamation with Bingen. The epithet am Rhein has been borne since 1 July 1982. For

216-662: The Romans came, people lived here, because the location favoured transport, being at the confluence of the Nahe and Rhine Rivers, and the Rhine's entry into the gorge. The first settlement seems to have been a Celtic ( Gaulish ) settlement by the name of Binge – meaning "rift". In the early first century AD, Roman troops were stationed in Bingen on the Rhine Valley Road, and rendered the local name as Bingium in Latin . There

240-724: The Archbishop of Mainz and the Emperor to destruction. In the 13th century, Bingen was a member of the Rhenish League of Towns. The building of Klopp Castle ( Burg Klopp ) in the mid 13th century could well be seen as being tied in with this development. A last attempt was the town's unsuccessful participation in the German Peasants' War in 1525. From the Archbishop the Cathedral Chapter of Mainz acquired

264-499: The Rhineland-Palatinate State Garden Show. The event was held along a 2.8 km stretch of the Rhine waterfront on 24 ha of exhibition area. With 1.3 million visitors, the expected number of 600,000 was greatly exceeded. The region is characterized economically by winegrowing , especially as in Bingen three winegrowing areas ( Rheinhessen , Mittelrhein and Nahe ) meet. The town is also

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288-457: The Romans erected a wooden bridge across the Nahe and constructed a bridgehead castrum . A Roman Mithraic monument, which included a mutilated sculpture representing the nativity of Mithra from a rock, was discovered in Bingen; one of its inscriptions is dated 236. The presbyter Aetherius of Bingen founded sometime between 335 and 360 a firmly Christian community. Bearing witness to this time

312-585: The State Garden Show in 2008 in Bingen, the Rhineside areas in the town underwent extensive modernization. Benjamin of Tudela mentioned a Jewish community in Bingen in the mid-12th century. Christian inhabitants attacked the small Jewish quarter on Rosh Hashanah in 1198 or 1199, and the Jews were driven from the city. Jews again lived in Bingen as moneylenders in the middle of the 13th century under

336-676: The first surmounted palewise by a bunch of grapes slipped vert, the grapes three, four, three, two and one. The Trollbachtal Nature Conservation Area harbours cliff formations from 285,000,000 years ago. Münster-Sarmsheim has two kindergartens and its own primary school . Bingen am Rhein Bingen am Rhein ( German pronunciation: [ˈbɪŋən] ) is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany. The settlement's original name

360-489: The jurisdiction of the archbishop of Mainz . In 1343, French Jews settled in Bingen. In 1405, the archbishop declared a moratorium on one-fifth of the debts owed to Jews by Christians, and subsequently the archbishops repeatedly extorted large sums. Noted rabbis who taught in the small community included Seligmann Oppenheim, who convened the Council of Bingen (1455–56) in an unsuccessful attempt to establish his authority over

384-539: The most influential medieval composers and one of the earliest Western composers whose music is widely preserved and performed, was born 40 km away from Bingen, in Bermersheim vor der Höhe . Bingen am Rhein was also the birthplace of the poet Stefan George , along with many other influential figures. Bingen is situated just southeast of the Rhine knee by the Bingen Forest ( Binger Wald – actually

408-476: The outlying centre of Bingerbrück. It is served by InterCity trains as well as one ICE line. Bingen (Rhein) Stadt station lies 2 km farther east, right across from the historical harbour crane. This station is important only for local transport. There is also a stop in Bingen-Gaulsheim. The reason that two railway stations arose in Bingen is historical. The main railway station was originally

432-495: The past, the monocausal assumption was that the Romans had been forced by armed events and external aggressors in the context of the so-called Alamannic Storm to withdraw from the area east of the Rhine and north of the Danube. Archaeological finds, however, suggest that this process was the result of years of development during the so-called Crisis of the 3rd century with a decline of the border provinces; and even civil wars within

456-429: The town by Bundesstraße 9. Only private transport is still of importance today. The cargo harbour has been abandoned. The former winter harbour is now a marina . There are landing stages of the tourist lines Köln-Düsseldorfer, Bingen-Rüdesheimer Fahrgastschifffahrt and Rösslerlinie. A passenger ferry and a car ferry link Bingen with Rüdesheim . Until the late 1970s Bingen was a piloting station. Bingen am Rhein

480-421: The town in two halves in 1424 and 1438. Until the late 18th century Bingen remained under its administration. Like many towns in the valley, Bingen suffered several town fires and wars. From 1792 to 1813, the town was, as part of the département of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg – both names meaning "Thunder Mountain"), French after French Revolutionary troops had occupied the Rhine's left bank. In 1816, after

504-471: The whole of Rhineland Jewry. After the proposal was opposed by Moses Minz, the matter was referred to Isaac Isserlein, who rejected the project. The Jews were again expelled from Bingen in 1507, and did not return until the second half of the 16th century. The Jewish population was 465 in 1933, and 222 in 1939 due to flight and emigration. The 169 Jews who remained in Bingen in 1942 were sent to concentration camps, and only four ultimately returned. The synagogue

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528-594: The winegrowing Bereich's ( Bereich Bingen ) namesake in German wine law. Other industries that once did business in Bingen when there was a harbour have left the town over the years. The service industries here today are found mainly in the industrial park ( Autobahn interchange Bingen-Ost / Kempten / Industriegebiet) and in the Scharlachberg commercial park. Tourism also plays an important role. The main railway station, Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof , lies in

552-798: Was Bingium, a Celtic word that may have meant "hole in the rock", a description of the shoal behind the Mäuseturm , known as the Binger Loch . Bingen was the starting point for the Via Ausonia , a Roman military road that linked the town with Trier . Bingen is well known for, among other things, the story about the Mouse Tower , in which the Bishop of Hatto I of Mainz was allegedly eaten by mice. Saint Hildegard von Bingen , an important polymath , abbess , mystic and musician , one of

576-532: Was demolished in 1945, and the community was not reestablished after World War II. The council is made up of 36 members. The mayor since 2012 has been the CDU politician Thomas Feser . Seats are apportioned thus: The town's arms show Saint Martin cutting off a piece of his cloak for a poor man and, in a small inescutcheon in dexter chief, the Wheel of Mainz . Bingen was from 18 April to 19 October 2008 host for

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