Cisterscapes

Monastery landscape hike: To crosses, churches & chapels - In the footsteps of the Cistercians II
2025-09-13 13:30 - 17:30 (Europe/Berlin)

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.

Book presentation: The Abbey Library in Waldsassen
2025-10-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Waldsassen House of Art
The Abbey Library in Waldsassen
Studies on history, inventory and reception

Book presentation by Dr. Georg Schrott, Sprockhövel, and Christian Malzer M.A., Würzburg
Venue: Waldsassen, Kunsthaus Waldsassen, Kunstgasse 1

The Waldsassen Abbey Library is a double phenomenon: as the famous hall with its life-size limewood atlases, the interpretation of which has still not come to a definite conclusion; and of course as the book collection, which was transferred to the Amberg Provincial Library after secularization. In the current volume of research, new questions have been raised about the expressive intention of the artistic decoration and new theories have been developed about the prehistory of the hall. The baroque library catalog and the surviving books were examined under various aspects.

Free admission.

Monastery landscape hike: baroque highlights
2025-10-18 13:30 - 17:30

Bund Heimat und Umwelt in Deutschland (BHU) - Invitation to the online event: Monastic landscapes
2025-10-20 18:00 - 19:00
Invitation to the online event: Monastic landscapes
InvitationIKEWorldDay2025 inv ites you to a digital event on Monday, October 20, 2025 at 18:00-19:00, focusing on the future of monastic places and their cultural significance in Europe. This event is the launch of the BHU’s 2026 Heritage of the Year campaign: “Monastic Landscapes” and coincides with UNESCO’s World Intangible Cultural Heritage Day and the Council of Europe’s European Landscape Day.
Two keynote speeches will provide insights into current developments:

The Cisterscapes project presents the Europe-wide networking of 17 Cistercian monastic landscapes and shows how their spiritual and landscape heritage is made visible as a shared cultural asset.
The project Monastery culture today – and tomorrow? sheds light on how monasteries can be rethought as places of intangible heritage and opened up to future social needs.

Afterwards, we invite you to discuss the role of monastic culture in the 21st century – between tradition, transformation and new perspectives for use.
Participation is free of charge.
Registration at: veranstaltung@bhu.de
Link:

https://e-conference.digital-landscapes.eu/rooms/adm-2do-zbx-y7o/join

ONLINE lecture "Does monastic craft training have a future?"
2025-10-23 18:30 - 20:00 | ONLINE
The motto of the Klosterland relay is: “Education and monasteries” and invites you to immerse yourself in various areas of monastic culture. Our KLOSTERLAND member Dr. Felicitas von Aretin (journalist and author) and her discussion partners, who come from very different monasteries, will bring the diversity of monastic worlds to life on the respective salon evenings.

Michael van Ooyen, master goldsmith at Europakloster, and trainees Magdalena Strübler and Levin Vitola will be the evening’s discussion partners.

Please REGISTER for the online salon to: klostersalon-online@klosterland.de

Background: The order books of the gold and silversmiths at the Europakloster are so full that two apprentices are now learning the ancient craft. This makes the workshop one of the few monastic businesses to have managed the transformation. While the goldsmith’s workshop was originally set up by a monk from the monastery, it is now run by the secular master goldsmith Michael van Ooyen, who is supervised by the prior of the monastery, Brother Thomas, as an artist monk and head of the overall workshops. The workshops work closely with other monastery businesses, such as the glass workshops at Schlierbach Monastery, within the framework of artist collaborations. The result is not only liturgical objects, but also entire, healing interiors for churches, monasteries and clinics. The conversation will focus on the future of the old monastic craft traditions and how they can be preserved in the future. We will also talk about what is important in the work of a church goldsmith, how spirituality and craftsmanship are connected and what challenges the profession faces.

7th INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF CISTERCIAN ABBEYS, Portugal, 21-22 NOV 2025
2025-11-21 - 2025-11-22 | Monastery of Alcobaça Praça 25 de Abril, 2460-018 Alcobaça, Praça 25 de Abril, Alcobaça, Centro, 2460-018, Portugal
CELEBRATING CULTURAL DIVERSITY promoting inclusion!
On the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and the Faro Convention
2005 – 2025
For more information see the program..:
Free admission, by pre-registration via email: comunicacao.malcobaca@museusemonumentos.pt
Organização | Organization:
Museus e Monumentos de Portugal. E.P.E.:/ Mosteiro de Alcobaça | Museums and Monuments of Portugal.E.P.E. / Alcobaça Monastery European Network of Cistercian Heritage
Monastery of Alcobaça
Praça 25 de Abril,
2460-018 Alcobaça
Phone: +351 262 505 120
Fax: +351 262 505 130

Maria Bildhausen Monastery: Bildhausen Christmas Bazaar
2025-11-22 - 2025-11-23 | Maria Bildhausen Monastery, Maria Bildhausen 1, Münnerstadt, 97702, Deutschland
This year, the Christmas bazaar will once again take place in the extensive monastery grounds. Visitors can stroll around without any crowds and enjoy getting in the mood for the upcoming Advent and Christmas season.
“Getting in the mood for Advent”

Pre-Christmas atmosphere at Maria Bildhausen Monastery
On Saturday, 22.11.2025, from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. and on Sunday, 23.11.2025, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., visitors young and old will be presented with a colorful program and various offers at the Bildhäuser Christmas Bazaar on the monastery grounds and in the KlosterLaden. In the monastery store of the Dominikus-Ringeisen-Werk, the coffee roastery, the nursery and the workshops, together with their partners, offer a wide range of attractive goods. In the unique ambience of the historic monastery complex, there is also a wealth of attractive offers and a special supporting program in and around the abbey building. The KlosterManufaktur presents its products in the abbey hall. Younger visitors can once again look forward to seeing St. Nicholas. On Saturday and Sunday, the “Kleinwenkheimer Bauernhaufen” will once again be demonstrating old craftsmanship at the Mühleneck. The KlosterAkademie Maria Bildhausen will be presenting its new courses for the coming year on both days in Haus St. Maria. In the church, the exhibition “Open wide the gates!” will be presented by the residents of the residential facility and by employees of the workshops and visitors to the support centers.
Enjoy the special atmosphere in the abbey building, around the Bildhausen barn and in the monastery park by candlelight.

Entrance at two cash desk areas
Admission costs 2 euros. By paying the entrance fee, you contribute to the success of the Bildhäuser Christmas Bazaar. Children under the age of 12, people with disabilities, employees on duty and volunteers are admitted free of charge!
Traffic regulation
During the Christmas Bazaar, traffic around Maria Bildhausen will be regulated by the volunteer fire departments. Additional parking spaces are available at the nearby Rindhof, in Groß- and Kleinwenkheim. The Christmas bazaar can be easily reached from here with a free, permanent shuttle service.

Heilsbronn: Guided tour "Open wide the gates"
2025-12-01 19:00
Musical guided tour of the cathedral during Advent with the Sopranetten.
Location: Heilsbronn Minster, Münsterplatz 1, 91560 Heilsbronn.
Further information at: https://www.heilsbronn.de/de/kultur-tourismus/fuehrungen/terminfuehrungen
Organizer: Evang.-Luth.-Pfarramt, Kulturamt Heilsbronn.
Photo: Guided tours, Sopranetten © Wolfgang Burger

Heilsbronn: Guided tour with lights
2025-12-06 17:00
Hundreds of candles bathe the cathedral in a romantic and mysterious glow – an experience for the senses and soul with Jutta Gruber.
Location: Heilsbronn Minster, Münsterplatz 1, 91560 Heilsbronn
More information at: https://www.heilsbronn.de/de/kultur-tourismus/fuehrungen/terminfuehrungen
Photo: Lichterfuehrung-im-Muenster-mit-J.-Gruber-©Berning.

Heilsbronn: Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae - Peregrina and the heavenly messengers
2025-12-21 17:00
Cistercian nun Peregrina von Frauental takes you into the world of heavenly messengers and traces the angels in the cathedral. Costume tour with Christine Diefenbacher.
Location: Münster Heilsbronn, Münsterplatz 1, 91560 Heilsbronn.
More information at: https://www.heilsbronn.de/de/kultur-tourismus/fuehrungen/terminfuehrungen
Organizer:
Evangelical Lutheran Parish Office, Cultural Office Heilsbronn
Photo: Christine Diefenbacher, nun Peregrina, tour guide © Fotostudio Lichtblick

Online lecture Colloquium Historicum Wirsbergense : "Cistercians as designers of monastic landscapes - the example of Ebrach".
2026-01-04 18:00 - 19:00 | ONLINE
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Winfried Schenk, Würzburg/ 2nd speaker Scientific Advisory Board Network Cisterscapes/European Cultural Heritage
ZOOM Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81825709697?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 818 2570 9697
Identification code: 1924
You can also participate by telephone.
Telephone number: 069 38079884

The centennial calendar - a historical weather forecast from the Cistercian order
2026-01-28 19:00 - 21:00
The centennial calendar is a compilation of weather forecasts. It was compiled in the 17th century by Cistercian abbot Mauritius Knauer (* 1613 or 1614; † 1664). It was intended to enable him and his monks to predict the weather and thus optimize monastic agriculture. Although the hundred-year calendar does not provide a reliable weather forecast, it is an interesting example of historical weather forecasts and the ideas of the time about the influence of celestial bodies on the weather. The calendar is still updated today and printed in various farmers’ calendars, although modern meteorology sees no scientific basis for the predictions.
In the lecture, EKS project manager Martina Zanner first presents the centenary calendar by Abbot Mauritius Knauer. The project manager of the eco-model region, Antje Grüner, will then discuss the significance of the calendar for organic agriculture.
Location: Tirschenreuth District Office, large conference room

Guided hike along the Prinzensteig trail
2026-02-07 09:00 - 10:30 | Zwettl Monastery, Zwettl Abbey 1, Zwettl, Lower Austria, 3910, Österreich
Take a walk with us on this meditative path at the beginning of the Ottenstein barrage! The romantic forest sanctuary was built in 1936 and continues to delight hikers and those seeking peace and quiet to this day. Get to know the Zwettler monastery landscape, which was awarded the European Heritage Label in 2024, on this leisurely hike. The meeting point is at the information board in the Lindenhof of Zwettl Abbey.
Registration under: Tel. 0043 664 4717083 (also possible via WhatsApp); multikultikreaktiv.com/anmeldung.html, multikultikreaktiv@gmail.com

Monastic viticulture in Franconia II: the Silvaner question
2026-02-13 15:00 - 16:30 | Information Center Orangery Ebrach, Lagerhausstrasse 5, Ebrach, Bavaria, 96157, Deutschland
Lecture by
Jesko Graf zu Dohna, Archivist of the Princely Castell Archives
“How the Silvaner came to Franconia. Sources, controversies, probabilities”
in conversation with Prof. Dr. Winfried Schenk, historical geography, wiss. Cisterscapes advisory board
Live from the Orangery in Ebrach.
Register at rosa.karl@lra-ba.bayern.de.
