(Saint Roch's Festival) – church festival with folk character, Bishopric of Mainz pilgrimage Winzerfest (winemakers' festival) – lasting 11 days, the longest wine festival on the Rhine Economy and infrastructure The region is characterized economically by winegrowing, especially as in Bingen three winegrowing areas (Rheinhessen, Mittelrhein and Nahe) meet. The town is also the winegrowing Bereich's (Bereich Bingen) namesake in German wine law. Other industries that once did business in Bingen when there was a harbour have left the town over the years. The service industries here today are found mainly in the industrial park (Autobahn interchange Bingen-Ost / Kempten / Industriegebiet) and in the Scharlachberg commercial park. Tourism also plays an important role. Resident businesses NSM-Löwen (slot machines) Oerlikon Balzers Coating Germany GmbH Sekthaus Carl Graeger Transport Rail The main railway station, Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof, lies in the outlying centre of Bingerbrück. It is served by InterCity trains as well as one ICE line. Bingen (Rhein) Stadt station lies 2 km farther east, right across from the historical harbour crane. This station is important only for local transport. There is also a stop in Bingen-Gaulsheim. The reason that two railway stations arose in Bingen is historical. The main railway station was originally a Prussian border station built by the Rhenish Railway Company on its West Rhine Railway, whilst the station in town belonged to the Hessian Ludwig Railway. The stops at Drususbrücke on the Bingen Hbf-Bad Kreuznach line and Bingen-Kempten and Büdesheim-Dromersheim on the Bingen/Rhein Stadt–Alzey line are no longer served. Road Bingen lies next to Autobahnen A 60 and A 61, which are linked to the town by Bundesstraße 9. Water Only private transport is still of importance today. The cargo harbour has been abandoned. The former winter harbour is now a marina. There are landing stages of the tourist lines Köln-Düsseldorfer, Bingen-Rüdesheimer Fahrgastschifffahrt and Rösslerlinie. A passenger ferry and a car ferry link Bingen with Rüdesheim. Until the late 1970s Bingen was a piloting station. Education University of Applied Sciences Bingen Stefan-George-Gymnasium Hildegardisschule, Bishopric of Mainz Catholic private school Rochus-Realschule Rupertus Hauptschule Berufsbildende Schule Bingen (vocational school) Bingen town library Folk high school Notable people Born before 1900 Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), abbess and author, mystic, writer, composer, musician, and medic. After her the Bingen girls' school (Gymnasium and vocational school), the Hildegardisschule (“Higa”), is named. On 7 October 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named her a Doctor