Hildegarten at the Historical Museum on the River

As a complement to the Hildegard exhibition at the neighboring Museum on the River, the garden showcases numerous plants that Hildegard described in her natural history ('Physica'). In this significant collection, the learned Benedictine nun described nearly 300 herbs, shrubs, and trees along with their (healing) effects on humans. Unfortunately, the work has only survived in late medieval manuscripts, so today no one knows the 'original text' of Hildegard of Bingen. The didactically structured Hildegarten presents the 'Book of Plants' and the 'Book of Trees' from the 'Physica' in a total of 15 themed beds and 8 individual beds.