Ceremony and reception to mark the receipt of the European Heritage Label for Cistercian Cultural Landscapes “Cisterscapes connecting Europe” and the inauguration of the reconstruction of the Gothic wayside shrine in the Maulbronn Old Cemetery on Sunday, March 16, 2025, at 11 a.m. in the Maulbronn Town Hall (former fruit cellar of Maulbronn Monastery).
Participation in the Cultural Heritage Label is another outstanding distinction of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Maulbronn Monastery and its cultural landscape developed by the former Cistercian monks
. Maulbronn Monastery was situated between the Rhine, Neckar and Enz rivers and has left its lasting mark on numerous places and landscapes – in agriculture, viticulture, fruit growing and in the forests. The innovative hydraulic engineering and engineering skills of the Cistercians in the Middle Valley were outstanding. What was produced in the farmsteads and granges and collected in the Pfleghöfe was brought to market via the town courtyards. The former
economy of the Cistercians in the region around Maulbronn can still be clearly seen today.
