The Doberan Monastery Days are being held under the heading “NIGHBARE LOVE AND CHARITY IN THE CISTERCIAN MONASTERY”. The basic Christian concern of
charity is expressed in the Cistercian monastery in the proverbial hospitality and care of the poor and sick. We have invited guests to
who have interesting things to tell us about this topic from a historical and contemporary perspective in and around Doberan Monastery and beyond.
The Minister of Social Affairs of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Ms. Stefanie Drese, has taken on the patronage of the Doberan Monastery Days. To kick things off on Friday, the vocal group VOX NOSTRA will perform medieval songs in Doberan Minster. The Doberan Monastery Days 2025 will conclude on Sunday with a guided tour of the places where guests were accommodated and the sick and poor were cared for in our monastery in the Middle Ages.

We cordially invite you !
Be part of it!

Jochen Arenz, Mayor of the town of Bad Doberan

PROGRAM
Friday, 19.9.2025
7.30 p.m.
Concert in the Minster: SALVE REGINA
Solemn chants of the Cistercians from the 12th to 14th centuries
Berlin vocal ensemble VOX NOSTRA
(admission 15 euros, children and young people up to 18 years free)
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Saturday, 20.9.2025 | Community Center of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
parish, Klosterstraße 1b
9.30 a.m.
OPENING:
Mayor Jochen Arenz,
SHADE OF MIRACLES and WELCOME:
Minister for Social Affairs, Health and Sport, Stefanie Drese
WELCOME FROM THE ROSTOCK COUNTY COUNCIL:
Head of Department Romuald Bittl

10 a.m.
INTRODUCTION LECTURE
Guest accommodation, nursing care and alms distribution at
the Cistercians.
Simon Sosnitza, historian and director of the museum Kulturstiftung
Sachsen-Anhalt Kloster Michaelstein
Coffee break

11.30 a.m.
ZISTERZIENSERKLOSTER HEUTE
Hospitality and support for people in need.
Guest Father Nicodemus from Stiepel Monastery

12.30 p.m.
Presentation of ″Treffpunkt Suppenküche″
a diaconal project of the Protestant parish
Doberan by the director Barbara Niehaus

1 p.m.
Lunch in the soup kitchen

2 p.m.
WOHLTÄTIGKEIT IM UMFELD DES KLOSTERS
Foundations for the care of the poor in Doberan Monastery.
Retired regional superintendent Carl-Christian Schmidt, Bad Doberan

3 p.m.
DIE BÜLOWKAPELLE
The von Bülow family and Doberan Monastery.
Detlev Werner von Bülow, Schwerin

4 p.m.
GUIDED TOUR OF THE CHAPEL IN DOBERAN MÜNSTER
Custodian Martin Heider, Detlev Werner von Bülow

5 p.m.
FINAL ADDRESS
Oberkirchenrätin i.R. Petra Wallmann
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Sunday, 21.9.2025
9.30 a.m.
Worship service in the church

10.30 a.m.
Meeting point at the monastery gate
GUIDED TOUR TO THE PLACES OF CARE FOR THE SICK AND
ARMED AND THE GUEST HOSPITAL AT
KLOSTER DOBERAN
Klostertor, Hospiz, Abthof, Backhalle
Sabine Krahn-Schulze, Martin Heider, Carl-Christian Schmidt

Participation in the conference is free of charge