• 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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  • Cistercian landscapes as European heritage – online lecture

    Cistercian landscapes as European heritage Within decades, the Cistercian reform order spread throughout Europe in the High Middle Ages. They shaped their own type of cultural landscape: the Cistercian landscape. Such Cistercian landscapes can be found all over Europe. 17 former Cistercian abbeys from five countries have been jointly awarded the European Heritage Label as

  • 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