Rochus Chapel

Bingen in 1666. The pest spread from the Netherlands over the European navigable rivers or Frankfurt, the trade-fair city. There were 1,300 deaths. There was a real emergency and the civil servant in Bingen, Baron Frey von Dheren, praised the idea of building a chapel in honour of St Rochus, and it was built in the year of his promise, but it was not until 1677 that it could be dedicated.
From that point in time the place of worship experienced turmoil. In 1689 the French troops plundered the chapel. In 1698 there was an extension to the building. In 1795 the chapel was set on fire and destroyed in the combat between French revolutionaries and German soldiers. After the battle in Leipzig and the French withdrew, they passed through Bingen and typhus was spread in the town.
Then people remembered the reverence the townspeople had for St Rochus and the chapel was rebuilt. On 14 August 1814 the Rochus Day was celebrated again. Among the guests was J.W. von Goethe.
In 1889 lightning struck the building, just after the elaborate restoration work had been completed. The fire again destroyed everything apart from the walls. On the foundations of the former Baroque building a three-nave late Gothic church was built with an exterior choir. That is what we see today. The chapel was dedicated in the evening before the Rochus festival in 1895.