fairly cool facade embellishment on a rather unassuming building in bingen. i think it was part of a vocational school, maybe a gym. bingen is a really old city ( origins dating back to the 2nd century before christ, when the romans were roaming the southern part of germany ) in the state of rhineland-palatinate, sitting right next to the rhine river, in an area that is widely known as the starting point of the upper middle rhine valley . many a legends and myths are part of the city's history, involving quite a few historic human beings, one of the most famous one being the sainted hildegard von bingen . she was a nun that, through her visions, but also through intelligence and far-sightedness, was one of the most influential women of the medieval age, even being a counselor to germany's elite back in the day. a writer, musician and general polymath, she contributed immensely to many important political discourses, wrote about moral problems and created teachings, observed nat...
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