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Bermersheim
Baptismal church of Hildegard in Bermersheim vor der Höhe, today used by both confessions
as simultaneous church
Bermersheim
The middle Rhine region between the Nahe and the southern knee of
the River Rhine, which formerly was a province of the Grand Duchy
of Hessen on the left side of the Rhine, is up to today called “Rheinhessen”.
It is a historical region showing traits of the Bronze Age and
the Iron Age (2000 BC) and, furthermore, of later settlements by the
Celts, the Romans, the Germans, and finally – after being integrated
into Franconia – by Frankish settlers. It has always been the fate of
this Rhine-Nahe region as a frontier and transit-area to be more exposed
to “change and destruction” than other parts of Germany.
“Portrait of the Author: Hildegard and her Secretary Volmar” –
miniature from the Rupertsberg SCIVIAS codex of St. Hildegard
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