Cisterscapes

Monastery landscape hike: old borders, roads and settlements
2025-06-19 13:30 - 17:30 (Europe/Berlin)

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
Monastery_Plasy_Conference

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

Experience the monastery landscape - the Edelhof lake pond
2025-09-20 09:30 - 11:30 | Edelhof, lake pond, Edelhof 1, Zwettl, Lower Austria, 3910, Austria
Ponds 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

Eberbach Monastery: Lectures "500 years of the Peasants' War"
2025-09-21 15:00 | 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 in Eberbach Monastery

The event is a cooperation between the Foundation and the Freundeskreis Kloster Eberbach. Admission is free.

Conference "The Cistercians. Norms in conflict"
2025-09-25 - 2025-09-26

SAVE the DATE International final conference of the EU “Creative Europe” project “CulHerCis22”: Culinary heritage of the Cistercians
2025-09-26 - 2025-09-28
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 production and cultural landscape in the solar age under feudal conditions
15.30 hrs: Coffee break
16.00 PANEL 1: APPROACHES TO THE CISTERCISTS
Alexandra Baier, Cisterscapes: Monastic landscapes as European cultural heritage. Milestones and perspectives of transnational cooperation.
Iva Adámková, Recipes and Rhetoric: Bernard of Clairvaux and Contemporary Monastic Issues.
Andreas Gamerith, Zwettler Tafelfreuden. Staging Cistercian table culture using the example of Zwettl Abbey.
17.30: Evening lecture: Gerhard Ammerer, Speis und Trank im urbanen Raum. The culinary history of Salzburg in the early modern period
19.00: Dinner Culinary Heritage of the Cistercians Venue: University of Salzburg, Unipark Nonntal, Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1,5020 Salzburg HS Agnes Muthspiel (UNIPEG0.003)

Saturday, 27.09.2025

9.00 am: PANEL 2: CULINARY HERITAGE OF THE CISTERCIANS
Michael Brauer/Verena Deisl, The culinary heritage of the Cistercians between asceticism and accommodation
Fr. Aloysius M. Zierl OCist, A cookbook from the Heiligenkreuz Abbey kitchen from 1925
Gerald Hirtner, Bread as the foundation of a Benedictine community
10.30 a.m.: Coffee break
11.00 a.m. PANEL 3: CULTURAL HERITAGE AND COMMUNICATION
Michael Brauer/Verena Deisl, Cistercian cuisine in the context of events
Martina Schutová, The Cistercian Culinary Heritage as a Theme for Educational Programs
Dirk Gotzmann, Approaches to culinary landscapes
12.30 p.m.: Lunch break
1.30 pm: Keynote: Stefan Issig, book presentation on the culinary culture of the Cistercians
14.30 WORKSHOPS
WS 1: Matthias Gebauer, Nutrition in the museum
WS 2: Inge Gotzmann/Dirk Gotzmann, Intangible cultural heritage of monasteries: passing on knowledge and skills
WS 3: Tomas Pleva, 3D Visualization (max. 14 participants; English)
WS 4: Marlene Ernst/Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer: Dealing with historical recipes (terms, ingredients, modern interpretation)
15.30 hrs: Coffee break
16.00 hrs: Continuation of the workshops
17.00: Presentation of the results from the workshops; final discussion
Followed by dinner (self-paying)

Sunday, 28.09.20259.00 Excursions (Spiritual Salzburg/Culinary Salzburg)

Registration for the conference and further information:
Beate Rödhammer, beate.roedhammer@plus.ac.at, Tel. 0662-8044 4777

SAVE THE DATE: September 26-28 International Final Conference of The EU "Creative Europe" Project CulHerCis22
2025-09-26 - 2025-09-28
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 transnational cooperation
Iva Adámková, Recipes and rhetoric: Bernard of Clairvaux and current monastic issues
Andreas Gamerith, Table delights of Zwettl. Staging Cistercian table culture using the example of Zwettl Abbey
17.30 Evening lecture: Gerhard Ammerer, Food and drink in urban spaces. Culinary history of Salzburg in the early modern period
19.00 Dinner together
Saturday, 27.09.2025
9.00 PANEL 2: CULINARY HERITAGE OF THE CISTERCIANS
Michael Brauer/Verena Deisl, The culinary heritage of the Cistercians between asceticism and accommodation
Fr. Aloysius M. Zierl OCist, The culinary heritage of the Cistercians between asceticism and accommodation
Gerald Hirtner, Bread as a foundation of a Benedictine community
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 PANEL 3: CULTURAL HERITAGE AND MEDIATION
Michael Brauer/Verena Deisl, Cistercian cuisine in the context of events
Martina Schutová, The culinary heritage of the Cistercians as a topic for educational programs
Dirk Gotzmann, Approaches to culinary landscapes
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 Keynote: Stefan Issig, Book presentation on the culinary culture of the Cistercians
14.30 WORKSHOPS
WS 1: Matthias Gebauer, Nutrition in the museum
WS 2: Inge Gotzmann/Dirk Gotzmann, Intangible cultural heritage of the monasteries: Passing on knowledge and skills
WS 3: Tomas Pleva, 3D visualization (max. 14 participants; English)
WS 4: Marlene Ernst/Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer: Dealing with historicalrecipes (terms, ingredients, modern interpretation)
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Continuation of the workshops
17.00 Presentation of the results from the workshops; final discussion
Followed by dinner(self-payers)
Sunday, 28.09.20259.00 Excursions (Spiritual Salzburg/Culinary Salzburg)
Culinary Heritage of the Cistercians
Venue: University of Salzburg, Unipark Nonntal, Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1, 5020 Salzburg
HS Agnes Muthspiel (UNIPEG0.003)
Registration for the conference and further information:
Beate Rödhammer, beate.roedhammer@plus.ac.at, Tel. 0662-8044 4777

Maria Bildhausen Monastery: "Germany sings and sounds" concert
2025-10-03 | Maria Bildhausen Monastery, Maria Bildhausen 1, Münnerstadt, 97702, 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 every year since then on October 3.

This year, for the first time, the Barbara Stamm Academy is organizing the concert together with the Dominikus-Ringeisen-Werk and the choir “Capella Nova” under the direction of Carsten Krüger. You can find out more about the initiative at https://3oktober.org

We look forward to your visit to Maria Bildhausen. Registration is not required, admission is free.

The KlosterGasthof is open both before and after the event and invites you to enjoy a wide range of food and drinks.

Guided tours Ebrach: In search of clues in the heart of the monastery landscape!
2025-10-05 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 and last date: 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.

Heilsbronn: City tour "Stories of the night of witches, murder and wild margraves"
2025-10-09 21:00
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 guide town of Heilsbronn_Stories at night ©Ralf Hanisch

Cistercian market Koppenwind
2025-10-12 10:00 - 18:00 | 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 products from the Cisterscapes partner sites will be presented and marketed, there will be a children’s program and entertainment will be provided by the threshing group from Treppendorf and the Ebrachtal hunting horn players.

Heilsbronn: Monastery gossip around 1500 in Heilsbronn
2025-10-12 15:00 - 16:00
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 Office, Heilsbronn Cultural Office.
More information at: https://www.heilsbronn.de/de/kultur-tourismus/fuehrungen/terminfuehrungen
Photo: City of Heilsbronn tour guide ©Hanisch

Heilsbronn: Peregrina parlat - a nun gives an insight
2025-10-12 17:00
Nun Peregrina von Frauental guides you through the mysterious chambers of the New Abbey and talks about monastic life. Her topics are almost inexhaustible… Costume tour with Christine Diefenbacher.
Location: Religious Education Center, Abteigasse 7, 91560 Heilsbronn.
Organizer: Evangelical Lutheran Parish Office, Heilsbronn Cultural Office.
More information at: https://www.heilsbronn.de/de/kultur-tourismus/fuehrungen/terminfuehrungen
Photo: Christine Diefenbacher, nun Peregrina, tour guide © Fotostudio Lichtblick

Heilsbronn: Of night watchmen and towers
2025-10-16 21:00
Night watchmen and doormen once ensured safety and order – follow our Heilsbronn night watchman on her new tour. Costume tour with Christine Diefenbacher.
Meeting point: Glass elevator, Hauptstraße 5, Heilsbronn.
Organizer: Evangelical Lutheran Parish Office, Heilsbronn Cultural Office.
Photo: Night watchman Christine Diefenbacher © Ralf Hanisch.
