• Cistercian Churches with a Far-Reaching Impact?! Pilgrimages, Monastic Seclusion, and Baroque Architecture

    Burgwindheim Castle 17 Main Street, Burgwindheim, Bavaria, Germany

    Cistercian churches with a dramatic visual impact?! Don't they lie there, modest and without towers, in a lonely valley? How do monastic seclusion and the surging waters even go together? In fact, pilgrimage churches and their associated networks of paths are an integral part of our historically developed Cistercian landscapes. It is not uncommon today