Bingen

Bingen, an ancient town of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, is charmingly situated on the left bank of the Rhine, 39 miles SE. of Coblenz. Below the town is the celebrated Bingerloch, formerly a very dangerous point in the navigation of the Rhine, but in the year 1834 the sunken rocks were blown up. In the middle of the river stands the Mäuseturm, the tower of Bishop Hatto (q.v.). Nearly opposite Bingen, in the Niederwald, is the colossal statue Germania, erected 1877–83 to commemorate the war of 1870–71. Pop. 7627.