St. Hildegard, Eibingen

The walls around its grounds with a cemetery still date back to her time, as well as monuments in the church's floor.

It was unused after it was destroyed by troops of Frederick Barbarossa, but in 1165 Hildegard of Bingen settled there with Benedictines.

Different from her earlier monastery, Rupertsberg Abbey [de], it was not restricted to noble women.

Instead, Augustinian nuns from the Augustiner-Chorfrauenstift near Bad Kreuznach moved into the monastery in Eibingen.

When Rupertsberg was destroyed in 1632 by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years War, its nuns moved via Cologne and Mainz into Eibingen in 1641, saving also the relic of Hildegard, the Eibinger Reliquienschatz [de] and manuscripts including her book Scivias.