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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) --- 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 --- 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

Eberbach Monastery © Sven Moschitz       Lectures "500 Years of Peasants' War" Prof. Nina Gallion, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz: Old Law and New Faith. The Peasants' War of 1525 and its background   Dr. Hartmut Heinemann, scient. Archivist (retired), Hess. HStA, Wiesbaden: What happened? What remained? The year 1525 in the Rheingau and in Eberbach Monastery   The event is a cooperation between the Foundation and the Freundeskreis Kloster Eberbach. Admission is free.