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The Disibodenberg further scriptures. The monastery of the Disibodenberg, too, may have profited a little from the ‘splendour’ of this papal acknowledgement. At the same time, the separation of the monks’ monastery and the nun’s convent was initiated. In 1147, Hildegard decided – despite all difficulties – to leave the Disibodenberg with her nuns – another proof of her inner independence. Various reasons may have motivated her for this decision, the most important one being the lack of space for her growing convent, consisting of 18 nuns by then. In a vision, Hildegard was allocated the site for the new monastery at the confluence of the Rhine and Nahe, where St. Rupertus once had lived as a hermit. Among the patrons, whose donations made possible the building of the monastery on the Rupertsberg, the Count Palatine Hermann of Stahleck is mentioned first in the Rupertsberg foundation book. Between 1147 and 1151 the nuns moved to their new place, and in 1152, as is documented, the church and the monastery were consecrated. At Hildegard’s departure from the Disibodenberg, first signs of decadence may have become apparent in the monks’ convent. When they led to the decline the Archbishop of Mainz entrusted the convent together with its property to the Cistercians, who could hold out for approximately 300 years. In 1559, the final decline was sealed which could not be undone anymore in spite of many attempts of revival. From the middle of the 18th century the destruction of the buildings began, which first served as a quarry until the grounds were passed over into private hands. The present private proprietor, Ehrengard Baroness of Racknitz, née Countess of Hohenthal, transferred the former grounds of the convent into a foundation on May 21st, 1989. The SCIVIAS-Foundation of Disibodenberg endeavours to obtain further research programs and the preservation and protection of the ruins as witnesses of a thousand-year-long Christian tradition. Sr. Teresa Tromberend OSB 18
The Rupertsberg The convent of Rupertsberg before its destruction in the Thirty Years’ War (engraving around 1620) The Rupertsberg People following the tracks of St. Hildegard of Bingen will only find the last authentic rests of her first monastery on the Rupertsberg in tearing the veil of a double alienation. The place of the former convent has been called “Bingerbrück” since the 19th century. The only remainder of the Rupertsberg convent are five arcades of the monastery church. They can be seen today in an exhibition hall of the Mirth firm, leading the visitor back into the 12th century. Between 1147 and 1151, Hildegard left the Disibodenberg and founded her first monastery above the tomb of St. Rupertus. Her biography recounts: “Hildegard was shown by the Holy Spirit that place where the Nahe flows into the Rhine, namely the hill which received its name by the confessor St. Rupertus.” Little is known about the building history of the convent of Rupertsberg. From scattered comments and pictorial representations, the site of the convent can be roughly reconstructed. Its centre was the convent church which had been consecrated by Archbishop Heinrich of Mainz in 1152. It had a nave and two aisles. The measures of the 19
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