Guided tours

 Following in St. Hildegard’s footsteps

It is impossible to imagine the history of Bingen without Saint Hildegard. She was an expert in nature and healing practices, and the abbess has left us musical and literary works of spiritual
excellence. She has been described as a universal genius and is highly valued by people because of her visions. She was critical of the time in which she lived and her political ideas were highly esteemed by the pope, the emperor and bishops. Hildegard’s knowledge and teachings have lost none of their validity and fascination even after 800 years.

Short topical guided tour
Accompanied by a tour guide, visit the „Hildegard von Bingen“ department in the Historic Museum on the River – Hildegard von Bingen and the vaulted
cellar of the former Rupertsberg convent.

Size of group: a maximum of 25 people
Takes: about 2 hours
Price per group: 110.- Euro

Large topical tour
On the extensive topical tour visit the „Hildegard von Bingen“ department in the Historic Museum on the River – Hildegard von Bingen and the vaulted cellar of the former Rupertsberg convent, followed by a visit to the Rochus Chapel on the Rochusberg, including a visit to the Hildegard Forum and the herb garden.

Size of group: a maximum of 25 people
Takes: about 3 hours
Price per group: 120.- Euro

Detailed information:
Historisches Museum am Strom - Hildegard von Bingen

Life, work and death - A visit to St. Hildegard‘s work locations

In what was in the Middle Ages a long life,
Hildegard (1098-1179) had enormous
influence on Disibodenberg, Rupertsberg
and Elbingen. The most fruitful decades in
her life are associated with the Rupertsberg in Bingen. At the age of eight, Hildegard was placed in the care of Jutta von Sponheim in the Disibodenberg convent, where she was taught and where the picturesque biblical world developed her theology. Between 1147 and 1150 Hildegard left the Disibodenberg convent with about twenty of her fellow nuns and created her own first convent, the Rupertsberg convent, above the grave of Saint Rupertus (Bingen-Bingerbrück). Hildegard lived and worked at the convent until her death in 1179.

With our tour guide you visit the places where Saint Hildegard worked, starting with a visit to her birthplace in Bermersheim and the convent ruins in Disibodenberg, where you can get to know the important places she worked in Bingen and the St Hildegard convent.

Size of group: a maximum of 50 people 
Takes:  about 7 hours
Price per group: 180 euros
 
Arrival in your own bus, additionals are entrance fees, travel expenses and the cost of the guide’s travel to Bingen.

Experience path in Bingen Forest

On this path, especially children get to know the wood from a different perspective: with the assistance of the Waldmaus (forest mouse) the wood becomes alive and many questions are
answered, such as how far a squirrel can jump. Those are only two of the experiences as you walk along the path. But adults will almost certainly also discover new aspects of the role people play in Mother Nature’s lifecycle.

Takes about 2½ hours
Length: 5½km
Group size: 10-30 people
Adults: 80 euros
School classes: 40 euros
Kindergardens: 15 euros
Individuals: 6 euros

UNESCO-Welterbe »Oberes Mittelrheintal«

Since June 2002 the Rhine Valley between Bingen and Koblenz has been on the list of the Unesco’s World Heritage sites. The committee recognised the valley as a cultural landscape with great variety and beauty, with many castles on the hills and steep vinecovered slopes. Our tour guide will accompany you in your bus through the Middle-Rhine Valley and will explain the castles, places of interest and the
towns and villages en route.

Size of group: busload
Price per group:
· 4 hours: 110.- Euro
· 6 hours: 130.- Euro 
· 8 hours: 150.- Euro

N.B.: including journey in your coach. Travel expenses, entrance fees, lunch and return-journey costs for the tour guide, if necessary, are extra.

Detailed information: Welterbe Oberes Mittelrheintal