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 once mighty self-sufficient monks can still be found everywhere. In 2024, the Ebrach monastery landscape was awarded the European Heritage Label. Follow in the footsteps of the Cistercians with us and find out why! An overview tour of the town center with churches and gardens - searching for clues in the heart of the monastery landscape Meeting point: In front of the former orangery (Cisterscapes information center), Oberer Abteigarten Season: From May to October every second Sunday, 15:30-17:00 Next dates: 10.08. and 24.08., 7.09. and 21.09., 5.10. and 19.10. Advance ticket sales online at: https://www.bamberg.info/veranstaltungen/rundgang_in_ebrach_auf_spurens-569119-12525635/ or on site at the information center Prices: €9 per person; €8 with volunteer card; children and young people up to the age of 16 free of charge. Searching for clues in the heart of the monastery landscape can also be booked as a group tour. Advice and individual coordination of priorities on 0951 85 721 Price: 90 € maximum group size 25 people. Duration approx. 90 minutes. Guided tours in foreign languages on request.
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 once mighty self-sufficient monks can still be found everywhere. In 2024, the Ebrach monastery landscape was awarded the European Heritage Label. Follow in the footsteps of the Cistercians with us and find out why! An overview tour of the town center with churches and gardens - searching for clues in the heart of the monastery landscape Meeting point: In front of the former orangery (Cisterscapes information center), Oberer Abteigarten, Ebrach. Season: From May to October every second Sunday, 15:30-17:00 Next dates: 7.09. and 21.09., 5.10. and 19.10. Advance ticket sales online at: https://www.bamberg.info/veranstaltungen/rundgang_in_ebrach_auf_spurens-569119-12525635/ or on site at the information center. Prices: €9 per person; €8 with volunteer card; children and young people up to the age of 16 free of charge. Searching for clues in the heart of the monastery landscape can also be booked as a group tour. Advice and individual coordination of priorities on 0951 85 721 Price: 90 € maximum group size 25 people. Duration approx. 90 minutes. Guided tours in foreign languages on request.
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 once mighty self-sufficient monks can still be found everywhere. In 2024, the Ebrach monastery landscape was awarded the European Heritage Label. Follow in the footsteps of the Cistercians with us and find out why! An overview tour of the town center with churches and gardens - searching for clues in the heart of the monastery landscape Meeting point: In front of the former orangery (Cisterscapes information center), Oberer Abteigarten, Ebrach. Season: From May to October every second Sunday, 15:30-17:00 Next dates: 21.09., 5.10. and 19.10. Advance ticket sales online at: https://www.bamberg.info/veranstaltungen/rundgang_in_ebrach_auf_spurens-569119-12525635/ or on site at the information center. Prices: €9 per person; €8 with volunteer card; children and young people up to the age of 16 free of charge. Searching for clues in the heart of the monastery landscape can also be booked as a group tour. Advice and individual coordination of priorities on 0951 85 721 Price: 90 € maximum group size 25 people. Duration approx. 90 minutes. Guided tours in foreign languages on request.
Plasy Monastery: Conference “The Plasy Monastery (Plass) in Context”
Plasy MonasteryThe National Institute for Monument Preservation, the Museum and Gallery of the Northern Pilsen Region in Mariánská Týnice and the National Technical Museum - Center for Architectural Heritage invite you to the conference "The Plasy Monastery in Context", which will take place on September 11-13, 2025 in the premises of the Center for Architectural Heritage in Plasy. International specialist conference to reflect on the development of the monastery and its embedding in the European context. Plasy Monastery is firmly anchored in Czech historiography as well as in architectural, artistic and intellectual research. In 2025, it will be 880 years since the first Cistercians arrived in the valley of the Střela River. This event is traditionally commemorated by a specialist conference, which primarily summarizes the new findings of the last decade. The conference papers focus on three main thematic blocks: "The monastery and its buildings" "The monastery and its people" "The monastery and its landscape" Further information on the conference can be found at: www.klaster-plasy.cz www.marianskatynice.cz and at the conference e-mail address: plasy2025@seznam.cz Monastery_Plasy_Conference
Loccum Monastery invites you to a guided tour through the monastery landscape of the Cistercian monks on Open Monument Day
Loccum Monastery , DeutschlandOn September 14, 2025, Loccum Monastery invites you to the Open Monument Day. Visitors can expect an exciting program about history, architecture and the cultural landscape. In addition to traditional guided tours of the impressive monastery complex, those interested can also explore the approximately 7.2-kilometre "Small Monastery Landscape Trail" at 2 p.m., led by Hans-Georg Sievers. This route leads through a cultural landscape designed by the Cistercians with historic watercourses, canals, ponds and forests - impressive evidence of their medieval water management, which is still alive today. We look forward to welcoming you on Open Monument Day - on a journey of discovery through the monastery, cultural landscape and the history of a European heritage site. Yolanda Prange, Cisterscapes project
Discover the Rosary Way
As part of the Stiftland Days organized by IKom Stiftland, EKS project manager Martina Zanner provides information about the Rosary Station Trail, which connects Waldsassen with the Holy Trinity Church in Kappl. The meeting point is at the Holy Trinity Church in Kappl and the tour takes place in its surroundings. When? 14.09.2025, 17.00 hrs Contribution towards expenses: 4,00 €
Bridge builders! – The Zwettl monastery landscape and its bridges
Zwettl Monastery Zwettl Abbey 1, Zwettl, Lower Austria, ÖsterreichOn the occasion of the "European Heritage Days", Dr. Andreas Gamerith, Zwettl Abbey Archive, and Elisabeth Moll, MBA, Zwettl Town Archive, shed light on Zwettl's historical bridges: from the Romanesque Bridge, probably the oldest technical structure in Austria, to the bridges of the early 20th century, which used state-of-the-art innovations. The current structural measures on Zwettl bridges - implemented as part of the Interreg project "Cisterscapes VB - Zw - ZnS" funded by the European Union - are also presented.
Doberan Monastery: Doberan Monastery Days “Charity and Mercy in the Cistercian Monastery”
The Doberan Monastery Days are being held under the heading “NIGHBARE LOVE AND CHARITY IN THE CISTERCIAN MONASTERY”. The basic Christian concern of charity is expressed in the Cistercian monastery in the proverbial hospitality and care of the poor and sick. We have invited guests to who have interesting things to tell us about this topic from a historical and contemporary perspective in and around Doberan Monastery and beyond. The Minister of Social Affairs of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Ms. Stefanie Drese, has taken on the patronage of the Doberan Monastery Days. To kick things off on Friday, the vocal group VOX NOSTRA will perform medieval songs in Doberan Minster. The Doberan Monastery Days 2025 will conclude on Sunday with a guided tour of the places where guests were accommodated and the sick and poor were cared for in our monastery in the Middle Ages. We cordially invite you ! Be part of it! Jochen Arenz, Mayor of the town of Bad Doberan PROGRAM Friday, 19.9.2025 7.30 p.m. Concert in the Minster: SALVE REGINA Solemn chants of the Cistercians from the 12th to 14th centuries Berlin vocal ensemble VOX NOSTRA (admission 15 euros, children and young people up to 18 years free) --- Saturday, 20.9.2025 | Community Center of the Evangelical Lutheran Church parish, Klosterstraße 1b 9.30 a.m. OPENING: Mayor Jochen Arenz, SHADE OF MIRACLES and WELCOME: Minister for Social Affairs, Health and Sport, Stefanie Drese WELCOME FROM THE ROSTOCK COUNTY COUNCIL: Head of Department Romuald Bittl 10 a.m. INTRODUCTION LECTURE Guest accommodation, nursing care and alms distribution at the Cistercians. Simon Sosnitza, historian and director of the museum Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt Kloster Michaelstein Coffee break 11.30 a.m. ZISTERZIENSERKLOSTER HEUTE Hospitality and support for people in need. Guest Father Nicodemus from Stiepel Monastery 12.30 p.m. Presentation of ″Treffpunkt Suppenküche″ a diaconal project of the Protestant parish Doberan by the director Barbara Niehaus 1 p.m. Lunch in the soup kitchen 2 p.m. WOHLTÄTIGKEIT IM UMFELD DES KLOSTERS Foundations for the care of the poor in Doberan Monastery. Retired regional superintendent Carl-Christian Schmidt, Bad Doberan 3 p.m. DIE BÜLOWKAPELLE The von Bülow family and Doberan Monastery. Detlev Werner von Bülow, Schwerin 4 p.m. GUIDED TOUR OF THE CHAPEL IN DOBERAN MÜNSTER Custodian Martin Heider, Detlev Werner von Bülow 5 p.m. FINAL ADDRESS Oberkirchenrätin i.R. Petra Wallmann --- Sunday, 21.9.2025 9.30 a.m. Worship service in the church 10.30 a.m. Meeting point at the monastery gate GUIDED TOUR TO THE PLACES OF CARE FOR THE SICK AND ARMED AND THE GUEST HOSPITAL AT KLOSTER DOBERAN Klostertor, Hospiz, Abthof, Backhalle Sabine Krahn-Schulze, Martin Heider, Carl-Christian Schmidt Participation in the conference is free of charge
Experience the monastery landscape – the Edelhof lake pond
Edelhof, lake pond Edelhof 1, Zwettl, Lower Austria, AustriaPonds and their pond keepers have a long tradition in the Waldviertel. This is why Waldviertel carp pond farming is now a World Agricultural Heritage Site. Together with the two pond rangers Irene Lüdemann and Patricia Ernstbrunner, learn more about the tasks of a pond keeper and the tasks of the pond itself for the diversity of animals, plants and the climate. This workshop is funded by Interreg Austria - Czech Republic in the project "Cisterscapes - VB-Zw-ZnS". The meeting point is at the bus stop on the thoroughfare, opposite the new school building. Please bring sturdy shoes and weatherproof clothing
