Bingen

Bingen is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The settlement's unique name was Bingium, a Celtic word that may have signified "opening in the stone", a portrayal of the shore behind the Mauseturm, known as the Binger Loch. Bingen was the beginning stage for the Via Ausonia, a Roman military street that connected the town with Trier. Bingen is outstanding for, in addition to other things, the anecdote about the Mouse Tower, in which purportedly the Bishop of Mainz Hatto was eaten by mice.

Indeed, even before the Romans came, individuals lived here, on the grounds that the area favored transport conjunction of the Nahe and Rhine, and the Rhine's entrance into the chasm, a Celtic Gaulish settlement by the name of Binge – signifying "break". In the early 1^st century AD, Roman troops were positioned in Bingen on the Rhine Valley Road. They changed the area's name to Bingium. There the Romans raised a wooden extension over the Nahe and developed a bridgehead castrum.

A Roman Mithraic landmark, which incorporated a damaged model speaking to the nativity of Mithra from a stone, was found in Bingen; one of its engravings is dated 236. On 7 June 1969, the some time ago Prussian region of Bingerbruck was amalgamated. On 22 April 1972 came Dromersheim's and Sponsheim's amalgamation with Bingen. The appellation am Rhein has been borne since 1 July 1982. For the State Garden Show in 2008 in Bingen, the Rhineside territories in the town experienced broad modernization.