• Start of the season

    Zwettl Monastery Zwettl Abbey 1, Zwettl, Lower Austria, Österreich

    Zwettl Abbey starts the new tourist season on Palm Sunday. From now on, guided tours of the monastery will once again take place daily. On tour three, which leads into the baroque library with its magnificent frescoes by Paul Troger, visitors can also see the special exhibition "Cisterscapes - we are European cultural heritage".

    €12,50
  • Exhibition “Cultural landscape as European heritage”

    Old town hall Zwettl Sparkassenplatz 3, Zwettl, Lower Austria, Österreich

    What is a Cistercian monastery landscape? An exhibition in the old town hall of Zwettl explores this question. This presentation is freely accessible to all interested parties until fall 2025. The exhibition is accompanied by materials for different age groups, which can be used to playfully explore the elements of a monastery landscape. Curious?

  • Eberbach Monastery: Lectures “500 years of the Peasants’ War”

    Monks' refectory at Eberbach Monastery

    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

  • SAVE the DATE International final conference of the EU “Creative Europe” project “CulHerCis22”: Culinary heritage of the Cistercians

    SAVE the DATE: September 26 - 28, 2025 International final conference of the EU “Creative Europe” project “CulHerCis22”: Culinary heritage of the Cistercians Paris - London - University of Salzburg History UNIPARK NONNTAL ERZABT-KLOTZ-STRASSE 1 5020 Salzburg, Austria Registration: beate.roedhammer@plus.ac.at Conference program Friday, 26.09.2025 1.30 p.m.: Registration 14.00: Greetings: 14.30: Opening lecture: Winfried Schenk, Agricultural

  • SAVE THE DATE: September 26-28 International Final Conference of The EU “Creative Europe” Project CulHerCis22

    Culinary Heritage of the Cistercians Program for the conference Friday, 26.09.2025 13.30 Registration 14.00 Greetings 14.30 Opening lecture: Winfried Schenk, Agricultural production and cultural landscape in the solar age under feudal conditions 15.30 Coffee break 16.00 PANEL 1: APPROACHES TO THE CISTERCIANS Alexandra Baier, Cisterscapes: Monastic landscapes as European cultural heritage. Milestones and perspectives of

  • Maria Bildhausen Monastery: “Germany sings and sounds” concert

    Maria Bildhausen Monastery Maria Bildhausen 1, Münnerstadt, Deutschland

    Germany sings and sounds Concert on the Day of German Unity at Maria Bildhausen Monastery We look forward to welcoming you on Thursday, 03.10.2025 from 6 p.m. at Maria Bildhausen Monastery. The "Germany sings and sounds" initiative was launched in 2020 with the involvement of Günther Beckstein (former Bavarian Minister President) and has taken place

  • Guided tours Ebrach: In search of clues in the heart of the monastery landscape!

    Guided tours in Ebrach If you come to Ebrach, you suddenly imagine yourself in the middle of the Steigerwald in a baroque residential town. We follow in the footsteps of the gray monks who owned this region. Even though the former monastery has been home to a prison for over 150 years, traces of the

  • Heilsbronn: City tour “Stories of the night of witches, murder and wild margraves”

    Karin Hanisch tells legends and true stories from the reign of Margrave Georg Friedrich to the reign of the "Wild Margrave" Carl Wilhelm Friedrich in the 18th century. Guided tour of the town Meeting point: Glass elevator, Hauptstraße 5, 91560 Heilsbronn. Organizer: Evangelical Lutheran Parish Office, Cultural Office Heilsbronn More information at: https://www.heilsbronn.de/de/kultur-tourismus/fuehrungen/terminfuehrungen Photo: Tour

    €5
  • Cistercian market Koppenwind

    Koppenwind Castle Rauhenebrach, Deutschland

    On Sunday, 12.10.25, 10 am - 6 pm, our Cisterscapes project will be represented with a stand at the Cistercian market in Koppenwind. The market will take place on the village square and in the courtyard of the castle. You can expect around 35 market stalls with all kinds of goodies and useful items, monastery

  • Heilsbronn: Monastery gossip around 1500 in Heilsbronn

    On a one-hour walk through the monastery town of Heilsbronn, you will meet the nun Peregrina, the maid Helga and Electress Anna. Find out what the three women experienced in Heilsbronn around 1500. Costume tour with Christine Diefenbacher, Helga Röschinger and Karin Hanisch. Meeting point: Glass elevator, Hauptstraße 5, 91560 Heilsbronn. Organizer: Evangelical Lutheran Parish

    €9