Opening of special exhibitions "Time and Eternity" and "Cisterscapes - we are European cultural heritage"
2025-05-03 14:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Old town hall Zwettl, Sparkassenplatz 3, Zwettl, Lower Austria, 3910, Österreich
As part of the Lower Austrian Museum Spring on 3. and May 4, 2025, the special exhibition “Time and Eternity” and “Cisterscapes – we are European cultural heritage” will be ceremoniously opened in the Old Town Hall of Zwettl. There are special guided tours through the special exhibitions and a varied children’s program.
The Zwettl Local Railway Association is also opening its new special exhibition “Holy Saints – Heaven in Motion” this weekend, which has been realized in cooperation with Zwettl Abbey.

Oberschwappach Castle: Bamberg String Quartet - Spring Concert
2025-05-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Castle hall, Oberschwappach Castle
Bamberg String Quartet – Spring Concert

CROWN JEWELS FROM THE BAROQUE AND CLASSICAL PERIODS,
Spring concert by the Bamberg String Quartet with
Pierre Martens, bassoon (professor at the Lübeck University of Music),
in the Schlosshalle Schloss Oberschwappach.
Works by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
Start 19:00
Admission 18:30
Tickets are available at: okticket.de
Advance booking offices see: okticket.de/vvks.ph

Maria Bildhausen Monastery: Bildhausen Bicycle Day
2025-05-11 | Maria Bildhausen Monastery, Maria Bildhausen 1, Münnerstadt, 97702, Deutschland
The day begins at 10 a.m. with a blessing of bicycles, whether bicycles, Kettcar, wheelchairs or rollators.
The Bad Neustadt company “DER WOLF” presents numerous bicycles from various companies to visitors during the day, which can also be tested on site.
Program
Bildhäuser Bicycle Day
10:00 a.m. Liturgy of the Word and blessing of bicycles at the Bildhäuser barn – in case of unfavorable weather, liturgy of the Word in the church with musical accompaniment by alphorn players from Schwarze Berge

11:00-17:00 Festival and information stands about bicycles (Fahrrad Wolf, Verkehrswacht)

11:00 a.m. Bildhäuser tin drummers (monastery grounds)

11:00-17:00 Monastery store and nursery open!

from 11:00 a.m. Lunch (Bildhäuser Scheune and KlosterGasthof) Coffee & cake (Bildhäuser Scheune)

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Kleinwenkheim Music Society (open-air stage Bildhäuser Scheune) 2:00 p.m. Lecture 500 years Bildhäuser Haufen / Peasants’ War by Michael Böckler (Abteisaal) 2:00 p.m. Concert Kissinger Sängerbund (open-air stage Bildhäuser Scheune) 2:00 p.m. Guided tour of the historic orchard and bee garden (Project Man – Bee – Education) Meeting point at the bee house

16:00 Benefit concert with Böhmisch G`schtörd (open-air stage Bildhäuser Scheune)

Once again this year, the Bildhäuser Bicycle Day is all about bicycles.

Bike blessing
The day begins at 10 a.m. with a liturgy of the word and a blessing of bicycles, whether bicycles, Kettcar, wheelchairs or rollators. The Bad Neustadt company “DER WOLF” will be presenting numerous bicycles from various companies to visitors during the day, which can also be tested on site. The “Ride a bike, but safely!” campaign (a program of the German Road Safety Association) is carried out by the Bad Kissingen District Road Safety Association in cooperation with the Bad Kissingen Mobile Youth Traffic School.

Bildhäuser tin drummers
From 11 a.m. there will be a morning pint with the Bildhaus tin drummers in the beer garden. The bike day will be accompanied by entertainment music from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. Lunch and a barbecue stand as well as coffee and cake will be available during the festival in and around the Bildhäuser barn.

Benefit concert with the Böhmisch G`schtörd brass band
There will also be an open-air concert for the benefit of the Förderverein Maria Bildhausen e.V. with the Böhmisch G`schtörd brass band on the open-air stage in front of the Bildhausen barn from 4 pm.

Monastery store
The KlosterLaden is open from 11 am to 5 pm.

Loccum Monastery: 31st ANNUAL MEETING OF THE EVANGELIC CHISTER CENSERY COMMUNITY
2025-05-11 14:00 - 2025-05-14 11:00 | Loccum Monastery, Deutschland
Once again, the community of Cistercian heirs in Germany has been invited to an annual meeting at the Cistercian monastery of Loccum, founded in 1163. The abbot of the monastery, Bishop Ralf Meister, has initiated this meeting in Loccum himself and is looking forward to our coming together with the whole team of the monastery. The state bishop will celebrate the opening service with us in the monastery church and speak to us about the office of abbot from a Protestant perspective as part of the conference.
Loccum Monastery is home to the seminary for vicar training for the four Lutheran churches in Lower Saxony and the Church of Bremen. Together with the Institute for Religious Education, the Pastoral College and the Protestant Academy, Loccum is an important place of education and dialog for the regional church of Hanover.
Addresses:
Tagungsstätte Loccum
Münchehäger Str. 6
31547 Rehburg-Loccum
Parking lot of the conference center and the institutes
www.tagungsstaette.loccum@evlka.de
Kloster Loccum, Kloster 2, 31547 Rehburg-Loccum
Navi: Marktstraße 9 – through the gatehouse
Parking lot on the monastery grounds, please drive through to the back
.
CONFERENCE COSTS
The conference costs (full board) are
420 € for a single room
730 € for a double room
Without accommodation, the rate per person is € 225.
We request € 50 from day guests if they take part in meals
. Please make a binding registration.
REGISTRATION
We look forward to receiving your registration by e-mail or post.
We request your binding registration by
by February 28, 2025. If you cancel later, we will unfortunately have to charge
a cancellation fee.
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Spring excursion: pilgrimage church of St. Thomas in Dachsgraben, Pötzles quarry, Döllersheim
2025-05-24 09:00 - 15:30 | Zwettl fire station, Kremser Street 11, Zwettl, Lower Austria, 3910, Österreich
The monastery landscape of Zwettl Abbey, which has been awarded the European Heritage Label, also includes elements that are located on the site of today’s military training area. These include the former pilgrimage church of St. Thomas in Dachsgraben, which was abandoned under Emperor Joseph II and possibly dates back to pre-Christian cults.
The excursion participants take a bus to the Allentsteig military training area. Colonel Julius Schlapschy will give an introductory lecture at TÜPL. The group then visits the former pilgrimage church of St. Thomas in Dachsgraben and the quarry in Pötzles and Döllersheim. The excursion will be led by Dr. Andreas Gamerith.
The bus trip, guided tours and lecture as well as the cost of lunch are included in the price. Registrations can be made at the adult education center in Zwettl: 0043 28 22/ 503 187 or info@vhszwettl.at

Monastery landscape hike: baroque highlights
2025-05-29 13:30 - 17:30

City of Maulbronn: Exhibition "The cold heart" glass art by Kerstin Müllerperth
2025-05-31 00:00 - 2025-06-15 00:00
The city of Maulbronn cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition “The Cold Heart” glass art by Kerstin Müllerperth
on Friday, May 30, 2025 at 7.30 pm in the Maulbronn town hall (former fruit box of the Maulbronn monastery)
Welcome
Mayor Aaron Treut
Introduction
Martin Ehlers, Maulbronn City Archives
Music
Magdalena and
Marina Müllerperth, piano
Followed by a stand-up reception
The exhibition is open
from May 31 to June 15, 2025
Weekdays: 13.00-17.00
Saturday, Sunday and public holidays:
11.00-17.00
Kerstin Müllerperth, born in 1962, comes from the Greiner-Perth glassblowing dynasty in Türingen and continues the family tradition
on her own artistic path. Her delicately designed glass – sometimes sober and cool, sometimes Venetian and playful – has won prominent awards
. In addition to the highest level of craftsmanship, the art glassblower also needs the right intuition for the material in order to create glass pictures
from her thoughts. The pictures in the exhibition are based on Wilhelm Hauff’s fairy tale “The Cold Heart”, in which, on the one hand, the helpful little glass man promises redemption
and, on the other, the glassworks becomes the epitome of failure. Kerstin Müllerperth takes us on a fairytale journey into the mystical
Black Forest of the last century with mysterious forest spirits and multi-layered characters.
www.muellerperth.de

Guided tour: baroque monastery garden
2025-06-06 16:00 - 17:30

Monastery landscape tour: Experience the monastery landscape in the monastery town
2025-06-13 15:00 - 17:00

Doberan Monastery: Monastery market
2025-06-14 - 2025-06-15
Program from 14. – June 15, 2025:
Opening hours
Saturday: 10 am – 6 pm
Sunday: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Artists and craftsmen demonstrate old craftsmanship –
forging, spinning, paper making, calligraphy,
veduta painting, stone carving…
Monks from Neuzelle (Oder) present the new
Cistercian monastery
Handmade music with the medieval band
Wolgemut
Lupus the juggler
ZOEKON, incense & singing bowls with Roland Ratzburg
(Not only) children learn juggling and other
circus tricks
Pony rides and petting sheep
Painting ceramics
Duo pessulantus with old children’s games
Saturday
12, 1.30 and 3 p.m.
Birte Bernstein tells fairy tales
10-17 h
“Schönes aus Papier” – Creative design at the
stand of the youth art school
Sunday
1, 2.30 and 4 p.m.
Birte Bernstein tells fairy tales
13.30
in the circus tent
Youth theater group from the Kornhaus with “The big question”
Admission:
5 Euro per person, children up to 14 years free
3 Euro for pupils and severely disabled persons
Visitors to the Klostermarkt receive a discount of 1 euro on presentation of their Münster admission ticket.

Łekno/Wągrowiec Monastery Landscape: Ceremony - Unveiling of the information board with the European Heritage Label
2025-06-17 09:30 - 17:15
Ceremonial unveiling of the information board with the European Heritage Label for the Łekno/Wągrowiec Monastery Landscape
9.30 – Ceremonial unveiling of the information board with the European Heritage Label for the Łekno/Wągrowiec Monastery Landscape, at the Municipal Office, 22 Cysterska Street, Wągrowiec
10.00 – Ceremonial unveiling of the information board with the European Heritage Label awarded to the Łekno/Wągrowiec Monastic Landscape at the Regional Museum in Wągrowiec, 15 Opacka Street, Wągrowiec
10.15 – 11.15
Lecture by experts from the Institute of National Cultural Heritage Dr. Iwona Liżewska and Tomasz Błyskosz entitled. “DoM – heritage next to me. On the management of cultural heritage in municipalities”.
11.15 -11.45
Lecture by the historian of the Regional Museum in Wągrowiec Marcin Moeglich entitled. “The archaeological site of Ł3 Klasztorek in Łekno/Tarnów Pałucki”. – What happens next?
11.45 – 12.30
Panel discussion
13.00 – 13.30
Coffee break
13.45 -18.00 Study trip
13.45 – 14.15
Visit to the former Cistercian monastery in Wągrowiec
14.30 – 15.00
Visit to St. Nicholas the Bishop’s Church in Wągrowiec St. Nicholas the Bishop’s Church in Tarnowo Pałuckie
15.00 -16.00
Visit to the Ł3 site
16.15 -16.45 Lunch at the Center for Ecological Education in Bracholin
16.45 -17.15 Walk to Bracholin Ostoja
Partners:
Primary school no. 2 of the Cistercians of Wągrowiec
Maria Konopnicka elementary school in Wągrowiec
PPTK branch in Wągrowiec Tourism organization
Cultural center in Łekno
Rural women’s association in Bracholin
Parishes

ARGE Fisch Tirschenreuth educational trip to Austria, Waldviertel and South Bohemia: Pond management - current challenges
2025-06-18 - 2025-06-21 | ARGE Fish Tirschenreuth
ARGE Fisch in Tirschenreuth, in cooperation with TEGOF and Fischerzeuger-Ring, is planning an educational trip on the topic: Current challenges in pond farming and how other regions in Europe are dealing with them. This year, we will be traveling to the Austrian Waldviertel and South Bohemia. We in the Waldviertel are particularly interested in the recognition of the pond area as “agricultural cultural heritage (GIAHS)”. The program includes information on organic carp, otters, regional marketing, fish processing and the touristic use of the pond landscape. Factory tours are planned in Litschau, Waidhofen/Thaya, Haslau, Weitra and at the Schuh fish leather factory in Reitzenschlag. Visits to the Zwettl Monastery and Vyssi Brod Monastery complete the program.
The tasting of regional specialties, including smoked carp caviar, the exchange of experiences with carp princess Michaela Altmann and the Waldviertler Teichrangern and other creative ideas for a sustainable carp pond economy can give us many new impulses. On the outward and return journey we will visit the Czech pond area near Budweis. The area is characterized by huge ponds with hundreds of hectares and large farms that cultivate several thousand hectares of ponds.
As always, the participants will be well catered for.
Travel date: Wednesday June 18 to Sunday June 22, 2025.
The educational tour starts and ends in Schönficht, Tirschenreuth district.
The price for the educational trip incl. including all entrance fees, meals according to the program and accommodation in a double room is expected to be around 850 euros.
Pre-registration with Dr. Ransberger at: mariya.ransberger@tirschenreuth.de

Monastery landscape hike: old borders, roads and settlements
2025-06-19 13:30 - 17:30

Wechterswinkel Monastery: Medieval festival - Come with us into the Middle Ages
2025-06-21 - 2025-06-22
Travelling folk, craftsmen, clanking swords and shining armor, smoking fires and much more can be discovered at our medieval festival. You can also be creative or compete in medieval children’s games.
Saturdays from 12:00 – 20:00
Sundays from 11:00 – 18:00
Family tours through the current exhibition Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 pm
Admission: €5, children up to the age of 6 free
(tickets only available at the box office)

Wechterswinkel MonasteryUm den Bau 6, 97654 Bastheim OT Wechterswinkel

Organizer: Kulturagentur Rhön-Grabfeld

10th CITY CYCLING 2025: KultTOUR to Schlüsselau
2025-06-28 10:30 - 15:00
KultTOUR: Saturday, June 28, 2025
with District Administrator Johann Kalb
As part of the 10th CITY CYCLING 2025 in the district of Bamberg, the district is offering 10th anniversary tours in cooperation with the municipalities and other partners.
In cooperation with Cisterscapes and the parish of Schlüsselau, one of the 10th TOURS takes the KultTOUR to Schlüsselau to the former Cistercian monastery.
Program starts on site at 11:00 am.
The surrounding communities are planning feeder trips there! Information from the respective municipality.
Actions:
11:00 am – 3:00 pm:
Location: Klostergarten and village square in Schlüsselau
– Children’s program with craft activities and fishing pond
– Actions Farmers’ Museum Frensdorf
– Medieval monastery kitchen with cooking area
– Information stands
– in front of Gasthaus Bittel: drinks and pizza
– in the monastery garden: coffee and cake, barbecue stand and drinks
14:00 – 15:00:
Place: Pilgrimage church Schmerzhafte Dreifaltigkeit in Schlüsselau
– Concert by the Capella Antiqua Bambergensis
Poster

Maria Bildhausen Monastery: Summer festival
2025-07-05 - 2025-07-06 | Maria Bildhausen Monastery, Maria Bildhausen 1, Münnerstadt, 97702, Deutschland
The tradition continues… on Saturday, July 05 and Sunday, July 06, 2025
This year’s summer festival will once again take place around the Bildhäuser Scheune. Numerous offers and attractions await visitors young and old on the monastery grounds and in the monastery store. On Saturday, July 5, 2025, there will be coffee and cake in the Bildhäuser Scheune from 14:30. From 19:00 – 22:00, the band “Venus” will once again be playing on the stage in front of the barn. Admission is free!
On Sunday, 06.07.2025 we start at 10:00 a.m. with a festive service in front of the Bildhäuser barn. In case of unfavorable weather in the church.
From 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. festivities in and around the Bildhäuser Scheune.
The monastery store is open on Sunday from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm!

10th CITY CYCLING 2025: Cycle TOUR with the VG Ebrach!
2025-07-09 16:30 - 18:30
The city cycling has started again on June 23 and the VG Ebrach is also taking part in a tour on July 9, 2025!
Together we want to collect kilometers, explore the VG by bike and end the evening with a monastery pint in the beautiful Orangery Garden Ebrach.
Start: approx. 16:30 at the town hall in Ebrach
Finish: approx. 18:30 Monastery pub at the orangery in Ebrach.
Taking part in CITY CYCLING means doing something good for yourself and for climate protection and at the same time drawing attention to the needs of cyclists. From 23.06.-13.07. you can collect kilometers again!
The district thanks the local authorities for their commitment by donating trees, benches and bicycle parking facilities. That’s why every kilometer ridden counts!
If you haven’t already done so, register for the VG using the QR code!

Guided tours Ebrach: In search of clues in the heart of the monastery landscape!
2025-07-13 15:30 - 17:00
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: 27.07., 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.

Wechterswinkel Monastery: Medieval festival
2025-07-21 | Wechterswinkel Monastery, Around the building 6, 97654 Bastheim/Wechterswinkel
For the second time, a medieval festival will be held in and around Wechterswinkel Monastery to coincide with the medieval exhibition. Medieval folk set up camp around the barn and in the courtyard
. Some craftsmen even invite visitors to join in and try out their skills. Knights are also guests, explaining the various weapons and demonstrating their spectacular martial art
. On the adjacent meadow, visitors can immerse themselves in the world of jugglers and try their hand at artistic skills under supervision. A variety of medieval games
are waiting to be discovered. All kinds of traders come together and offer their wares for sale. Minstrels frame the medieval festival musically with their instruments. There will also be plenty of culinary delights
on offer. The exhibition “Women’s lives in the Middle Ages” on the first floor of the monastery will be open during the event. Guided tours will take place on both days. Admission is
included in the admission price.
https://kultur.rhoen-grabfeld.de/museen-und-spielstaetten/kloster-wechterswinkel

Oberschwappach Castle: Wine festival 2025
2025-07-26 - 2025-07-28 | Oberschwappach Castle, Schlossstrasse 6, Oberschwappach, 97478, Deutschland
We are already looking forward to the 2025 wine festival
The wine festival in Oberschwappach Castle Park is expected to take place from July 26 to 28, 2025. We look forward to seeing you again in July 2025 for our cool Oberschwappach wine festival, with glasses always full, Oberschwappach hospitality and lots of Oberschwappach wine festival fans!

European Heritage Volunteers at Stična Abbey
2025-08-03 - 2025-08-16
We are pleased to inform you that Slovene Museum of Christianity has initiated a joint project with European Heritage Volunteers: the EHV Training Course will take place in Stična this August.
The project at Stična Monastery will include twelve young volunteers from all over the Europe and focus on the conservation and restoration of historic stone surfaces, integrating practical conservation work with a comprehensive educational programme.
Various similar activities within the Slovene Museum of Christianity and the EHV will be part of the accompanying agenda, including a main event with a presentation of the project, scheduled for August 7 in the afternoon (more information will follow).
Participants will also visit our partners in the Božidar Jakac Art Museum and former Cistercian monastery in Kostanjevica na Krki and learn about the wider context of the Cistercian heritage and the significance of the Cistercian Order, both in the past and in the present.
The project is made possible with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Cistercian Abbey Stična, European Heritage Volunteers and European Heritage Label Bureau.
More at: https://heritagevolunteers.eu/EuropeanHeritageTrainingCourses/TrainingCourses2025/ConservationAndRestorationOfStoneSurfaces?

Monastery landscape hike: Nordgau - Stiftland - Klosterland
2025-08-09 13:30 - 17:30

Experience the monastery landscape in the monastery town
2025-08-22 15:00 - 17:00

Guided tours Ebrach: In search of clues in the heart of the monastery landscape!
2025-09-07 15:30 - 17:00
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"
2025-09-11 00:00 - 2025-09-13 00:00 | Plasy Monastery
The 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
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Monastery landscape hike: To crosses, churches & chapels - In the footsteps of the Cistercians II
2025-09-13 13:30 - 17:30

Loccum Monastery invites you to a guided tour through the monastery landscape of the Cistercian monks on Open Monument Day
2025-09-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Loccum Monastery, Deutschland
On 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
2025-09-14 17:00 - 18:00
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
2025-09-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Zwettl Monastery, Zwettl Abbey 1, Zwettl, Lower Austria, 3910, Österreich
On 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”
2025-09-19 - 2025-09-21
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)
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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
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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
