Disibodenberg today Disibodenberg ruins Disibodenberg ruins Disibodenberg picture Disibodenberg is a monastery ruin in

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

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. It was founded by Saint

Disibod Saint Disibod (619–c.700) was an Irish monk and hermit, first mentioned in a martyrologium by Hrabanus Maurus (9th century). Hildegard of Bingen around 1170 composed a ''Vita'' of Saint Disibod He is commemorated on 8 September. According to ...

Hildegard of Bingen Hildegard of Bingen (german: Hildegard von Bingen; la, Hildegardis Bingensis; 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher ...

, who wrote Disibod's biography "Vita Sancti Disibodi", lived in Disibodenberg for 39 years. In 640, Disibod came as a missionary from

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. After working for 10 years in

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and Ardennes, he arrived near

Odernheim am Glan Odernheim am Glan is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad ...

and started teaching there. After his death, the monastery was founded. The Normans and the Hungarians plundered and destroyed the site several times, but Archbishop

Willigis Willigis ( la, Willigisus; german: Willigis, Willegis; 940 – 23 February 1011 AD) was Archbishop of Mainz from 975 until his death as well as archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire. Life Willigus was born in the Duchy of Saxony, possibly at ...

of Mainz rebuilt the church and monastery in the 10th century. It was home to famed saint

Hildegard Von Bingen Hildegard of Bingen (german: Hildegard von Bingen; la, Hildegardis Bingensis; 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher ...

throughout much of the 12th century.

Notes

* Wolfgang Müller: ''Nahekunde: Sobernheim und seine Umgebung im Wechsel der Zeiten''. Sobernheim a. d. Nahe: H. Schäffling, 1924. * Charlotte Kerner: ''Alle Schönheit des Himmels - Die Lebensgeschichte der Hildegard von Bingen''. 1993 * Eberhard J. Nikitsch: ''Kloster Disibodenberg. Religiosität, Kunst und Kultur im mittleren Naheland''. (Große Kunstführer Bd. 202). Regensburg 1998.

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