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Burg Klopp - Bingen
Bingen stands for variety: a modern town today.
Remnants of the stone age show that the region was populated in the very
early days. The strategic position at the junction of the rivers Rhine
and Nahe made the town attractive to warriors, merchants and the mighty,
who tried again and again to conquer the town. During the last thousand
years, Bingen has been destroyed eight times in the course of wars and
military conflicts, an the town has changed hands many times in history.
You can visit three floors of the museum in the old tower of castle Klopp.
There you will find a copy of the only full set of Roman medical instruments
ever discovered. The owner studied at the University of Alexandria, then
had been posted as a military doctor to the Roman garrison at Bingen. He
had died in 110 AD and his instruments were buried with him. They discovered
them in 1925 when they built the bridge over the Nahe River. The exhibit
is a copy as the originals.