Eibingen Abbey

[1] After the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (German mediatization), the land once owned by the convent became part of the domains of the prince of Nassau-Weilburg who, in 1831, even bought both the monastery and its church.

The community was reestablished by Charles, 6th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg in 1904 and resettled from St. Gabriel's Abbey in Prague.

[3] A first recording was made in 1973 and contained only two works by Hildegard of Bingen, a Kyrie and O virga ac diadema.

A second recording appeared in 1979, to remember the 800th anniversary of Hildegard's death, including the same pieces and antiphones, a hymn, a responsory and parts of Ordo virtutum.

[4] A reviewer of Gramophone noted about a 1998 recording: "These nuns are living the same life as that of Hildegard's community, singing daily the same Benedictine Office, breathing the same air and trying to capture the spirit of their great twelfth-century predecessor.

Church's interior with paintings of the Beuron Art School
A bronze statue of a hooded woman, Hildegard of Bingen
Statue of Hildegard of Bingen, bronze by Karlheinz Oswald (1998)
Philippine zu Guttenberg, last abbess of the convent prior to the German mediatization