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  • 7th INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF CISTERCIAN ABBEYS, Portugal, 21-22 NOV 2025

    Monastery of Alcobaça Praça 25 de Abril, 2460-018 Alcobaça Praça 25 de Abril, Alcobaça, Centro, Portugal

    CELEBRATING CULTURAL DIVERSITY promoting inclusion! On the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and the Faro Convention 2005 - 2025 For more information see the program..: Free admission, by pre-registration via email: comunicacao.malcobaca@museusemonumentos.pt Organização | Organization: Museus e Monumentos de Portugal. E.P.E.:/ Mosteiro de Alcobaça

  • Maria Bildhausen Monastery: Bildhausen Christmas Bazaar

    Maria Bildhausen Monastery Maria Bildhausen 1, Münnerstadt, Deutschland

    This year, the Christmas bazaar will once again take place in the extensive monastery grounds. Visitors can stroll around without any crowds and enjoy getting in the mood for the upcoming Advent and Christmas season. "Getting in the mood for Advent" Pre-Christmas atmosphere at Maria Bildhausen Monastery On Saturday, 22.11.2025, from 1 p.m. to 7

  • Heilsbronn: Guided tour “Open wide the gates”

    Musical guided tour of the cathedral during Advent with the Sopranetten. Location: Heilsbronn Minster, Münsterplatz 1, 91560 Heilsbronn. Further information at: https://www.heilsbronn.de/de/kultur-tourismus/fuehrungen/terminfuehrungen Organizer: Evang.-Luth.-Pfarramt, Kulturamt Heilsbronn. Photo: Guided tours, Sopranetten © Wolfgang Burger

  • Heilsbronn: Guided tour with lights

    Hundreds of candles bathe the cathedral in a romantic and mysterious glow - an experience for the senses and soul with Jutta Gruber. Location: Heilsbronn Minster, Münsterplatz 1, 91560 Heilsbronn More information at: https://www.heilsbronn.de/de/kultur-tourismus/fuehrungen/terminfuehrungen Photo: Lichterfuehrung-im-Muenster-mit-J.-Gruber-©Berning.    

  • Heilsbronn: Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae – Peregrina and the heavenly messengers

    Cistercian nun Peregrina von Frauental takes you into the world of heavenly messengers and traces the angels in the cathedral. Costume tour with Christine Diefenbacher. Location: Münster Heilsbronn, Münsterplatz 1, 91560 Heilsbronn. More information at: https://www.heilsbronn.de/de/kultur-tourismus/fuehrungen/terminfuehrungen Organizer: Evangelical Lutheran Parish Office, Cultural Office Heilsbronn Photo: Christine Diefenbacher, nun Peregrina, tour guide © Fotostudio Lichtblick  

    €6

  • Online lecture Colloquium Historicum Wirsbergense : “Cistercians as designers of monastic landscapes – the example of Ebrach”.

    ONLINE

    Speaker: Prof. Dr. Winfried Schenk, Würzburg/ 2nd speaker Scientific Advisory Board Network Cisterscapes/European Cultural Heritage ZOOM Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81825709697?pwd=IAFLMJYIRCFrwychApbb7lagiLekTM.1 Meeting-ID: 818 2570 9697 Identification code: 1924 You can also participate by telephone. Telephone number: 069 38079884

  • The centennial calendar – a historical weather forecast from the Cistercian order

    The centennial calendar is a compilation of weather forecasts. It was compiled in the 17th century by Cistercian abbot Mauritius Knauer (* 1613 or 1614; † 1664). It was intended to enable him and his monks to predict the weather and thus optimize monastic agriculture. Although the hundred-year calendar does not provide a reliable weather

  • Monastic viticulture in Franconia II: the Silvaner question

    Information Center Orangery Ebrach Lagerhausstrasse 5, Ebrach, Bavaria, Deutschland

    Lecture by Jesko Graf zu Dohna, Archivist of the Princely Castell Archives "How the Silvaner came to Franconia. Sources, controversies, probabilities" in conversation with Prof. Dr. Winfried Schenk, historical geography, wiss. Cisterscapes advisory board Live from the Orangery in Ebrach. Register at rosa.karl@lra-ba.bayern.de.

  • Pfortens alpaca hike

    Besucherzentrum der Stiftung Schulpforta Schulstraße 26, Naumburg OT Bad Kösen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

    The varied tour has all kinds of discoveries in store for children. The monastery grounds with mill and school park, the small Saale river and the Klopstock spring are explained in a child-friendly way. Questions are welcome - also about the life of schoolchildren today. Suitable for children aged 6 and over. With the pupils

  • Pfortens spring market

    Besucherzentrum der Stiftung Schulpforta Schulstraße 26, Naumburg OT Bad Kösen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

    The Pfortens spring market kicks off the season with a variety of arts and crafts, handmade products, food and drink. The highlight of this year's market: our monastery landscape guide Saskia Hellmund will present the ancient craft of weaving with her loom and invites you to join in!

  • Monastery landscape hike: borderline case Frais(ch)

    Borderline case Frais(ch) - split between Waldsassen Monastery and the imperial town of Eger NATURpur tour: In the footsteps of the Cistercians VI For almost 400 years, Neualbenreuth was characterized by alternating rule, torn apart and yet united as a result. Embark on a journey through a landscape of contradictions and peculiarities, with visible remains

    €8,00

  • The Cistercians – masters of hydraulic engineering on the Saale

    Besucherzentrum der Stiftung Schulpforta Schulstraße 26, Naumburg OT Bad Kösen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

    Follow in the footsteps of the great landscape designers of the Middle Ages on this guided hike: Bad Kösen, the Saalhäuser vineyards, the fish house and the mill near Almrich are included along the Kleine Saale. A varied circular route that impressively demonstrates the far-reaching work of the monks. The hike is very suitable for