Dec 2018  Ellen Rauch and Lynda Wills visit the Palatinate and Hesse.    4 Days, 2 people, roundtrip from Frankfurt  

How would have thougt that the trip unveiled the immediate neigborhood of Ellens Rauchs ancestors to Hildegard von Bingen, the most famous women in Middle Ages alternative theology and mystic. In 1112 she lived in the Disibodenberg Benedectine cloister at Odernheim in the Palatinate and later Ellens family owned a vinyard right next to the still existing ruins. Wolfgang had made an appointment with Hans Lahm who showed us the old records of the Rauch family in his Odernheim archive. Ellen and her friend Lynda discovered more on her family as the tour continued to Blankenbach in Hesse to trace the Rimbach family. Ellen had brought pictures from America and Hans Rimbach was a wonderful host with family pictures from Germany. Visits to the church and a promenade through Blankenheim ended with a music session at Alberts home.