St. Hildegard Abbey (Rüdesheim)

St. Hildegard's Abbey is a Benedictine abbey for nuns in Eibingen near Rüdesheim in the Diocese of Limburg.

Ecclesiastically, the abbey is the successor to the Rupertsberg and Eibingen monasteries, located 750 meters south within the village and founded in 1165 by Saint Hildegard of Bingen. The Eibingen monastery was dissolved in 1803 during the secularization.

The new monastery, built above Eibingen between 1900 and 1904 in Neo-Romanesque style, was donated by Prince Karl zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and settled in 1904 by Benedictine nuns from St. Gabriel's Abbey. It belongs to the Beuron Congregation. In 1941, the sisters were expelled by the Gestapo during the Nazi "Klostersturm" (monastery storm); after the war, they were able to return in 1945. In 1988, the sisters re-settled the Marienrode monastery near Hildesheim. Marienrode was a dependent branch of Eibingen until 1998 and subsequently became an independent priory.