• Michaelstein Monastery: “Exhibiting religion 2024”

    Lecture series "Exhibiting religion" Religions are not only expressed in scriptures and teachings. They are also holistic spaces of experience with rites and practices that on the one hand serve self-assurance within the religious community, but on the other hand also make it visible to the outside world. The symposium explores the question of how

  • European cultural heritage staged

    Waldsassen Monastery

    From October 17 - 19, 2024, the awarding of the European Heritage Label will be celebrated in Waldsassen with an impressive light show. The heritage of the Cistercians is staged on a huge water screen around the monastery complex and their buildings shine in a special light. In addition to this illumination (from 19:00 -

  • Monastery landscape tours October 2024

    Waldsassen Monastery

    If you would like to explore the monastery and cultural landscape of the Stiftland, you are cordially invited to join one of the three guided tours through the monastery town of Waldsassen or the Stiftland with our monastery landscape guides. Thursday, 17.10.2024, 15.00: (Almost) along the monastery wall - monastery landscape in the monastery town

  • Lecture: Cistercians as organic pioneers?

    Waldsassen Monastery

    Wednesday, 15.01.2025; 19.00 hrs; Kunsthaus Waldsassen Speakers: Antje Grüner, IKom Stiftland | Project Manager Öko-Modellregion; Martina Zanner, IKom Stiftland | Project Manager European Heritage Label Cistercian Monastery and Cultural Landscape in Stiftland Sustainability and respect for nature have not only been an issue since the increasing awareness of climate change. Industrial progress and the belief

  • Waldsassen: Film screenings with lecture “Cisterscapes” – landscape film

    Girls' secondary school of the Cistercian nuns Waldsassen - AULA Basilica Square 2, Waldsassen

    Film screenings "Cisterscapes" Landscape film with lecture by Stefan Wolters on 23.01.25 in the girls' secondary school of the Cistercian nuns in Waldsassen. Mornings: 10:45 - 12:45 for pupils as part of lessons, auditorium of the girls' secondary school. Evenings: from 19:00 for parents, friends of the secondary school and interested visitors, auditorium of the

  • Oberschwappach Castle: Notenlos – The top-class request concert!

    Oberschwappach Castle Schlossstrasse 6, Oberschwappach, Deutschland

    No notes: The wish concert in a class of its own! Start: 19:00 Admission: 18:00 Tickets online via ok-ticket Pusch & Speckmann perform the "Living Jukebox" and present a top-class request concert that you've never heard before - and that sounds different every time. Depending on the mood and creativity of the guests! They not

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  • Cistercian landscapes as European heritage – online lecture

    Cistercian landscapes as European heritage Within decades, the Cistercian reform order spread throughout Europe in the High Middle Ages. They shaped their own type of cultural landscape: the Cistercian landscape. Such Cistercian landscapes can be found all over Europe. 17 former Cistercian abbeys from five countries have been jointly awarded the European Heritage Label as

  • Maulbronn/Stromberg Monastery Landscape: “European Heritage Label for Cistercian Cultural Landscapes” ceremony and reception

    Maulbronn Town Hall (former fruit cellar of Maulbronn Monastery)

    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

  • Maulbronn Monastery: “Conference: Rural world in upheaval. The Peasants’ War and its conditions in the domain of Maulbronn Monastery”

    Town Hall, Klosterhof 6, 75433 Maulbronn Klosterhof 6, Maulbronn, Deutschland

    The period around 1500 was an era of transition from the religiously influenced Middle Ages to a new world in which people shaped their "this world" in a more self-confident and planned manner. In all areas of life, people gradually broke away from the overpowering ecclesiastical authority, sought more rational answers and learned new things

  • Sulzheim Castle: Easter buffet

    Celebrate Easter with us at Schloss Sulzheim - under the motto "Here the lord of the castle cooks for himself", a delicious, extensive buffet awaits you. A delicious soup, fresh salads, three main courses (including fish and vegetarian options), tempting desserts, a glass of sparkling wine or orange juice and coffee & cake at the