• Tirschenreuth: Guided tour

    Tirschenreuth

    Over three summers 800 years ago, up to a hundred farmers from the Waldsassen monastery toiled daily at the sawmill to cut an artificial channel through the local granite and gneiss for the Waldnaab. Using a hammer and chisel, without black powder or other technical equipment, around 500 cubic meters of stone were broken out

  • KLOSTERLAND-Salons ONLINE: “Goldsmith’s art in the European Monastery Gut Aich”

    ONLINE

    The Klosterland series has the motto: "Transformation - art and handicrafts in monasteries" and invites you to immerse yourself in various areas of monastic culture. Whether bookbinding, art publishing or paramentics: our KLOSTERLAND member Dr. Felicitas von Aretin (journalist and author) will bring the diversity of monastic worlds to life on the respective salon evenings

  • KLOSTERLAND-Salons – ONLINE: “Art publishing – a successful monastic niche business”

    ONLINE

    The Klosterland series has the motto: "Transformation - art and handicrafts in monasteries" and invites you to immerse yourself in various areas of monastic culture. Whether bookbinding, art publishing or paramentics: our KLOSTERLAND member Dr. Felicitas von Aretin (journalist and author) will bring the diversity of monastic worlds to life on the respective salon evenings

  • Guided cycle tour in the footsteps of the monks

    Waldsassen Monastery

    On Open Monument Day, you can follow in the footsteps of the white monks between the two centers of Stiftland (Waldsassen and Tirschenreuth). The guided cycle tour of around 45km starts in front of the Waldsassen basilica and leads past the Schupfenteich pond and through the Tirschenreuth pond pan to the Fischhof fish farm in

  • Bus trip to the Ebrach gourmet market

    Waldsassen Monastery

    If you would like to discover culinary delights from various Cistercian monasteries, experience the opening of the new Cistercian museum in Ebrach and explore parts of the monastery complex there on 22.09.2024, you can still register for the bus trip. There are still places available. Travel to Berni's birthplace!

  • Bad Doberan: Doberan Monastery Days 2024 – Monastery experience

    SPIRITUAL TOURISM - EDUCATION AND ENCOUNTER This year's Monastery Days are being held under the heading "EXPERIENCE LOCATION CLOSTERY". After the reception to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Association of Friends and Sponsors of Doberan Monastery on Friday, September 20, 2024, we can look forward to interesting contributions. The potential that our monastery complex