Bingen Travel Tip:
The Mouse Tower (Mäuseturm)
The Mouse Tower on the Rhine
The Mouse Tower is a stone tower on a small island in the Rhine, outside Bingen. The Romans were the first to build a structure on this site. It later became part of Franconia, and it fell and had to be rebuilt many times.
According to legend, Hatto II restored the tower and stayed there sometimes when he visited the town, because he felt relatively safe there. A sudden illness forced him to stay on the island, where he was said to have been attacked by thousands of mice and died soon afterwards in Bingen in 970. Since then the tower has been known as the Mouse Tower.
[ Source: http://www.bingen.de/en/2/sehenswuerdigkeit_maeseturm.html ]
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Tower
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Location of The Mouse Tower (Mäuseturm)
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