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View of the Mouse Tower

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View of the Mouse Tower

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View of the Mouse Tower

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Location: Bingen am Rhein, Mainz-Bingen, Rhenish Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1. Kreuzbach Suspension Bridge – Kreuzbach Gorge loop from Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof

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2. Kreuzbach Gorge – Binger Kribben loop from Assmannshausen

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3. Kreuzbach Gorge – Kreuzbach Suspension Bridge loop from Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof

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Martin & Sabine neben der Spur

August 1, 2022

This is where the Bingen mice attacked the evil Bishop Hatto. 1200 years later, a wonderfully romantic view of a small, wild island in the Rhine.

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Pete

August 17, 2022

Today, when the water was extremely low, there was even a way to get to the tower on foot.

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Sebastian Kowalke

August 1, 2018

A legend is entwined around the name of the old watchtower. Accordingly, archbishop Hatto II of Mainz refused to share his grain reserves with his starving subjects during a famine in the 10th century. Instead, he had some of the begging people locked up in a barn, which was then lit. The cries for help he commented only maliciously with the statement 'Do you hear how the little mice scream?'. At night, however, his property was hit by a massive mouse plague. With a few followers he fled with a boat to the mouse tower. He thought he was safe in the lonely watchtower, but when he closed the door, countless mice crawled out of the wall and ate him alive. Since then, the tower is called only mouse tower.

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Elevation 80 m

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Location: Bingen am Rhein, Mainz-Bingen, Rhenish Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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View of the Mouse Tower

1. Kreuzbach Suspension Bridge – Kreuzbach Gorge loop from Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof

2. Kreuzbach Gorge – Binger Kribben loop from Assmannshausen

3. Kreuzbach Gorge – Kreuzbach Suspension Bridge loop from Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof

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