Bingen

Bingen (Lat. Bingium), a town on the left bank of the Rhine, in the grand-duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, a province of Rhenish Hesse, Germany. It is pleasantly situated near the confluence of the Nahe, and does a good trade in wine, grain, and cattle, having factories also for tobacco, starch, and leather. Almost opposite, in the mid-stream of the Rhine, stands the Mause-Thurm, with which the myth of Bishop Hatto is associated, and a little lower is the famous rapid, the Bingerloch, no longer a source of terror.