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Stage 5
Pilgrim Trail
· Hunsrück - Nahe
5th stage Hildegard von Bingen Pilgrim Path: Disibodenberg - Schlossböckelheim
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Disibodenberg monastery ruinsPhoto: Naheland-Touristik GmbH/T. Volz
Disibodenberg - Odernheim - Duchroth - Oberhausen an der Nahe - Schlossböckelheim
The Disibodenberg with the monastery ruins is the heart of the pilgrimage path. It is the place where Hildegard of Bingen lived for almost 40 years. Some perceive this old mountain, located at the confluence of the Nahe and Glan rivers, as a magical place with special energy.
Exploring the museum at the foot of the mountain and the monastery ruins with the widely visible white Hildegard chapel takes time and invites inner reflection. Information panels in the ruin area explain the location and function of the buildings. Hildegard’s time at the Disibodenberg is vividly described on the eponymous information panel “Disibodenberg.” From here, there are magnificent views in all directions, over the Nahe and Glan valleys, and towards Odernheim on the south side. There is an information panel on the theme “Elements” there, in which Hildegard also describes the water of the Glan.
Vineyards shape the landscape around Duchroth, which has repeatedly won in the state competition “Our Village Has a Future” and was among the top 10 villages awarded gold in the 2016 federal competition. The center features half-timbered, rubble stone, and brick buildings as well as the 16th-century town hall. The Ring path is a restored part of the medieval town fortification. Noticeable are the many rose bushes climbing the houses in summer.
The landmark of Oberhausen an der Nahe is the Luitpold Bridge. This historic sandstone bridge was built in 1889 by Bavarian Prince Regent Luitpold to facilitate the way for vintners with their grapes and wines to the trading houses in Bad Kreuznach. The Luitpold Bridge separated the Kingdom of Bavaria (more precisely the Bavarian Palatinate) from Prussia.
Steep slopes like the Schlossböckelheimer Kupfergrube are among the best vineyard sites in Germany.
The daily destination Schlossböckelheim is a place from the 12th century, where world politics happened in the year 1106. Emperor Henry V held his own father Emperor Henry IV captive for a few days at Burg Böckelheim to force him to abdicate.
Note: The local municipality of Schlossböckelheim includes the three districts Tal, Kolonie, and Schloss.
Hildegard von Bingen Pilgrim Path
Hildegard von Bingen was an abbess, poet, theologian, naturalist, and healer, and lived her life in today’s Nahe holiday region.
The 137-kilometer-long Hildegard von Bingen Pilgrim Path passes various life stations of this probably most famous personality of the Middle Ages. The path starts in Idar-Oberstein and leads via Niederhosenbach, the family seat and possible birthplace of Hildegard von Bingen, further to Bad Sobernheim. Not far from here lies the monastery ruins of Disibodenberg where Hildegard spent almost 40 important years of her life. The pilgrimage path finally ends in Bingen am Rhein. The Rupertsberger vaulted cellar still testifies to the last place of work of Hildegard von Bingen: In 1150 the saint founded the monastery of Rupertsberger, which was the location of her work for 29 years. The last stations of this ecumenical pilgrimage path are the Hildegard shrine in the pilgrimage church St. Hildegard Rüdesheim-Ebingen and the Abbey of St. Hildegard Ebingen.
59 information and meditation panels along the entire route provide information about Hildegard’s person, her work and life in the Middle Ages. Hikers approach the spiritual side of Hildegard von Bingen through meditation panels following Hildegard’s visionary images from her main work “Silvias – Know the Ways” and offer impulses for meditation. The panels are published in German and English.
The pilgrim's passport can be stamped at Naheland-Touristik GmbH, tourist information offices, gastronomy and accommodation stations, various path stations and finally at the Abbey of St. Hildegard in Eibingen.
Brief biography of St. Hildegard von Bingen
1098: Birth of Hildegard von Bingen, probably in Niederhosenbach near Herrstein
1112: Entry into the monastery Disibodenberg near Bad Sobernheim, together with Jutta von Sponheim
1136: Hildegard von Bingen becomes the second magistra in the monastery Disibodenberg after the death of Jutta von Sponheim
around 1150: foundation of a women's monastery in Bingen am Rhein
1165: foundation of a second women's monastery in Eibingen, today's pilgrimage church St. Hildegard Rüdesheim-Ebingen
17 September 1179: Hildegard von Bingen dies in Bingen am Rhein
10 May 2012: Canonization of Hildegard von Bingen by Pope Benedict XVI
7 October 2012: Declaration as Doctor of the Church
Author’s recommendation
Tractor Museum in Oberhausen: Around 30 tractors from the period 1916 to 1960 are exhibited; the star of the museum is a Lanz steam-powered tractor from 1908. The museum is expanded and maintained with a lot of time and love by Manfred Nessel.
Derived from the technical difficulty and the stamina requirements.
Track types
Rest stops
Hermannshöhle - Restaurant & VinothekSafety information
Hiking shoes recommended!
Tips and suggestions
Naheland-Touristik GmbH
Bahnhofstraße 37, D-55606 Kirn
Phone: +49 (0) 6752/137610
Fax: +49 (0) 6752/137620
info@naheland.net, www.naheland.net
On site:
Nahe-Glan Holiday Region
Tourist information Bad Sobernheim
Bahnhofstraße 4, 55566 Bad Sobernheim
Phone +49 6751 81 1163 – Fax +49 6751 81 1050
Email touristinfo@vg-nahe-glan.de www.ferienregion-nahe-glan.de
Tourist information Meisenheim
Untergasse 16, 55590 Meisenheim
Phone +49 6751 81 1173
Fax +49 6751 81 1050
Email touristinfo@vg-nahe-glan.de, www.ferienregion-nahe-glan.de
Rheingrafenstein Tourist Association e.V.
Berliner Straße 60, D-55583 Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg
Phone: +49 (0) 6708/641780
info@bad-muenster-am-stein.de, www.bad-muenster-am-stein.de
Roadbook
The fifth stage forms the heart of the Hildegard path with the Disibodenberg. Anyone who only has one day should go on a pilgrimage hike here and start with the labyrinth at the so-called “Women’s Cell”.
But all other long-distance hikers should also take some time for a visit to the Disibodenberg, located at the confluence of the Glan and Nahe rivers. This is the place where Hildegard of Bingen lived for almost 40 years. For some visitors, Hildegard is still somehow present here today, as described by the Australian Colleen Keating.
Some perceive this old volcanic rock mountain, which has probably been a sacred mountain since Celtic Roman times, as a magical place with special energy. The text on the meditation panel on the theme of the Trinity, which stands at the widely visible white Hildegard chapel, comes from the pen of Sr. Philippa Rath OSB from the Abbey of St. Hildegard. This is remarkable because this visionary image of Hildegard also adorns the choir wall of the pilgrimage church in Eibingen as a huge mosaic, in front of which the Hildegard shrine with her bones is located. In this way, the middle and end of the Hildegard path are also brought together here.
From Disibodenberg, the path leads down the somewhat steep "Donkey Path" on the south side to the Glan river to Odernheim. There is a panel on the theme “Elements”, in which Hildegard also describes the water of the Glan.
Historically, we are here in the Bavarian Palatinate, ecclesiastically in the Diocese of Speyer. In the center of Odernheim, there is a sculpture of Hildegard at a fountain. At the Protestant church, there is another meditation panel (Panel 29: “Baptism”).
The path continues to the hill with a view of Odernheim and the Disibodenberg, from which the widely visible Hildegard chapel is particularly eye-catching. Here you will also find the second meditation corner of the Hildegard path and a meditation panel (Panel 30: “Confirmation”).
The discovery of an old Celtic dwelling with jewelry from the 5th century BC reminds us of the early history of the Nahe region, whose river still bears the Celtic name because “Nahe” means “Wild River” (Panel 31).
We walk to Duchroth, repeatedly awarded as the most beautiful village in Germany. Here we find a meditation panel in the Hildegard garden (Panel 32: “Ecclesia & Virginitas”). There is a bakery in the village and an opportunity to take a pilgrim’s snack.
From Duchroth, the route goes downhill again to Oberhausen an der Nahe. There is an information panel on the topic of fish, from which it becomes clear that Hildegard dealt intensively with fish life in the rivers around her (Panel 33).
On the way from the Nahe river up to Schloss Böckelheim, it is advisable to stop at Gut Hermannsberg for a wine tasting or at Niederthäler Hof for a snack.
We now go to Schlossböckelheim, a place where world politics played out in the 12th century. In 1106, during Hildegard's childhood, Emperor Henry V held his own father Emperor Henry IV captive for several days at Burg Böckelheim to force him to abdicate. The assertion that Hildegard was born here and met the emperor at Christmas at the age of eight, first claimed by Abbot Johann von Trithemius and then poetically described by local poet Gustav Pfarrius, is, however, a legend (Panel 34). Even though the former castle has been a ruin since the late 17th century, the view from its highest point offers a wonderful view of the land and lets you imagine how a lord or lady of the castle must have felt back then. Two meditation panels demonstrating Hildegard’s dramatic view of salvation history (Panel 35: “Christ and His Church”; Panel 36: “The Adversary”) invite us to pause.
Museum der Disibodenberger Scivias Stiftung
27 Hildegard-Tafel: Die Dreifaltigkeit
Klosterruine Disibodenberg
29 Hildegard-Tafel: Taufe
28 Hildegard-Tafel: Die Elemente
30 Hildegard-Tafel: Gesalbt mit dem Heiligen Geiste
31 Hildegard-Tafel: Im Land der Kelten
32 Hildegard-Tafel: Ecclesia & Virginitas - Der mystische Leib
33 Hildegard-Tafel: Christus und seine Kirche
34 Hildegard-Tafel: Fische
Luitpoldbrücke Oberhausen a.d. Nahe
Hermannshöhle - Restaurant & Vinothek
Burgruine Böckelheim
36 Hildegard-Tafel: Der Widersacher
35 Hildegard-Tafel: Burg Böckelheim
Public transport
Staudernheim train station. The municipality is located on the Mainz - Saarbrücken route and is well accessible by Regional Express and Regional Train (vlexx).
Footpath to the starting point at Disibodenberger Hof approx. 1.6 kilometers (20 minutes).
Get Timetable to destination
Directions
A61 in the east, exit Bad Kreuznach, B41 to Waldböckelheim, continue on L234 via Oberstreit to Staudernheim.
A62 in the west, exit Birkenfeld, B41 to Bad Sobernheim, continue on L233, Steinhardter Straße. At the roundabout, direction Staudernheim (Staudernheimer Straße).
Parking
55568 Staudernheim, Bahnhofstraße (parking lot Draisine station at train station)
Coordinates
Book recommendation by the author
Pilgrim book, Dr. Annette Esser, Ess Publishing, Bad Kreuznach - www.naheland.net
Author’s map recommendations
"Hildegard von Bingen - Pilgrim Path" flyer with overview map - www.naheland.net
Equipment
Hiking shoes recommended!
Our tips for an easy hiking pleasure:
Hiking is the perfect sport. With the right clothing and shoes, it is twice the fun. Functional clothing, poles, and breathable backpacks are comfortable for hiking. But good shoes are essential. Robust jogging or casual shoes are only suitable for short distances on flat paths. For longer distances, we recommend stable hiking shoes with gripping, non-slip soles. Also think of sun protection and bring a drink. One liter of water is ideal.
Localization
Derived from the technical difficulty and the stamina requirements.
User Questions