I visited the Abbey of St Hildegaard any number of times when I lived near Bingen from 96-2000. Absolutely beautiful location on the Rhine, and hearing the nuns at matins was an awesome experience. It’s definitley worth the trip with other historic and religious site near by. I think I still have a bottle of the wine sold in the Mainz Cathedral at her 900th anniversary celebration: A beautiful bottle with a stained-glass likeness of Hildegaard as part of the bottle. (The abbey is now across the Rhine from Bingen on the Rudesheim side.)
"her theology... Dabhar... earthiness as the meaning of humility... pantheism... divinization ...trust of images ... God as Mother ... fleshy
http://www.sol.com.au/kor/5_02.htm
Interesting.....thanks.