Rupertsberg is a crag at the confluence of the Nahe River and the Rhine, in Bingen am Rhein

Bingen am Rhein

Bingen am Rhein is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.The settlement’s original name 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...

. It is named for Saint Rupert of Bingen

Rupert of Bingen

Saint Rupert of Bingen was the son of Bertha of Bingen, a Christian noblewoman. His father was a pagan called Robold. After the latter's death, the child was raised as a Christian by his mother. Bertha and Rupert share a feast day on May 15.Rupert undertook a pilgrimage to Rome aged 15, and is...

, son of Bertha of Bingen

Bertha of Bingen

Saint Bertha of Bingen was the mother of Rupert of Bingen. Her biography was written, and subsequently her cult popularized, by Hildegard of Bingen, who lived in the same region, about three hundred years later...

. It is notable as the site of the first convent founded by Saint Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen

Blessed Hildegard of Bingen , also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. Elected a magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and...

, in 1150, after leaving the monastery at Disibodenberg

Disibodenberg

thumb|right|Disibodenberg todaythumb|Disibodenberg ruinsthumb|Disibodenberg ruinsthumb|Disibodenberg pictureDisibodenberg is a monastery ruin in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was founded by Saint Disibod. Hildegard of Bingen, who wrote Disibod's biography "Vita Sancti Disibodi", also lived in...

. She acquired the land from Hermann, dean of Mainz, and Count Bernhard of Hildesheim

Bernard of Hildesheim

Bernhard or Bernard of Hildesheim was Bishop of Hildesheim from 1130 until 1153 . He achieved the canonization of Gotthard of Hildesheim by Pope Innocent II and founded the basilica St. Godehard in honour of the new Saint at Hildesheim, where he was buried. He is venerated Blessed in the Roman...

, plus various smaller gifts. The convent chapel was consecrated by Archbishop Henry of Mainz

Henry I, Archbishop of Mainz

Henry was archbishop of Mainz from 1142 to 1153.In his early years as archbishop he was assisted by Anselm of Havelberg. He supported Friedrich von Staufen as successor to Konrad III of Germany....

 in 1152. The charters were drawn up in 1158 by Archbishop Arnold of Mainz. In 1171, Archbishop Christian of Mainz extended tax concessions to the convent. The ruins of the monastery were destroyed to make way for a railway track in 1857.

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• 17th century drawing by J.Como