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

Autumn excursion to Gobelsburg Castle and Röhrenbach

Gobelsburg Castle and Röhrenbach Valley Church

Wine has always played an important role for the Cistercians - and not just for liturgical use. As early as 1171, the Zwettler monks were therefore given vineyards in Gobelsburg. The castle and cellar (especially the newly built, artistically designed cloister cellar) show the strong connection with the monastery and its tradition. On 16 November

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Waldviertel carp – tried and tested and served in a new way

Wurmhof Thaller Oberhof 28, Zwettl, Lower Austria, Österreich

The Zwettl Adult Education Center is organizing a cooking seminar on 21 November 2024 in cooperation with Cisterscapes, in which carp can be rediscovered . Together with Gaby Thaller (seminar farmer), participants will prepare and eat potato dumplings with carp caviar, carp on a bed of millet, carp and potato skewers and carp lasagne. During

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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

Special film screening “Landscapes of the Cistercians”

We cordially invite you to a special screening of the film "Landscapes of the Cistercians" in the auditorium of the Waldsassen girls' secondary school! Filmmaker David Sünderhauf will introduce his film production. Finally, Stefan Wolters (Head of Bärnau Archaeology Park) will provide information about building in the Middle Ages.

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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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

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