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  • Guided tour: (almost) along the monastery wall

    In accordance with the order's rule ORA et LABORA (Pray and Work), the tasks of the Cistercian monks were very varied, as can be seen from various places around the monastery in Waldsassen. Duration: approx. 2 hours; distance approx. 2.5 km Meeting point: Waldsassen, Diepoldbrunnen Fee: 5,00 € Minimum number of participants: 8 people; maximum

    €5,00

  • Dr. Markus Kranner, Tatort Franken: The stone grave of the giant amphibians

    Bamberg high-rise post office building

    Markus Kranner, paleontologist at the Geological Service of the State Office for the Environment, introduces us to a find of the century. 10 skull fossils from the Triassic period were found in a quarry in Rauhenebrach: A mass grave of giant amphibians. "A 70-centimeter-long lower jaw protruded from the rock in front of us, peppered

  • Course: Construction and reconstruction of a dry stone wall

    Stone by stone - Workshop: Construction and reconstruction of a dry stone wall Dry stone walls have been a defining element of our cultural landscape for centuries. Especially on steep slopes where vines are grown. They are not only functional, but also a piece of living history. The Maulbronn monastery vineyard is an outstanding example

  • Altenberg monastery market

    Altenberg Monastery , Deutschland

    To mark the award of the European Heritage Label to the Altenberg monastery landscape, we are organizing a monastery market together with the Rheinisch-Bergisch district, the municipality of Odenthal and the Verschönerungs- und Kulturverein Altenberg e.V., which reflects the life and work as well as the cuisine of the Cistercians and at the same time

  • Guided tours Ebrach: In search of clues in the heart of the monastery landscape!

    Information Center Orangery Ebrach Lagerhausstrasse 5, Ebrach, Bavaria, Deutschland

    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

    Free – €9

  • Guided tour: Experience the monastery landscape in the monastery town

    According to the order's rule ORA et LABORA (Pray and Work), the tasks of the Cistercian monks were very varied, as can be seen from various places in the immediate vicinity of the monastery in Waldsassen.Duration: 2 hours; distance approx. 1.5 kmMeeting point: Waldsassen, DiepoldbrunnenFee: 5,00 €Minimum number of participants: 8 people; maximum 12 peopleLeader:

    €5,00

  • On the trail of the Cistercians – excursion to Pielenhofen

    On 09.05.2026, you can experience the traces of the Cistercian order in Pielenhofen an der Naab. Cistercian nuns first worked there before Cistercians prayed and worked in the legacy of the nuns during the Baroque period. More information on registration and program: Excursion Pielenhofen-3

  • Culinary hiking in the Loccum monastery landscape

    Loccum Monastery , Deutschland

    On Saturday, May 9, 2026, you can go on a culinary hike along the "Small Monastery Landscape Trail" in the Loccum monastery landscape. Visitors are invited to combine nature, history and regional cuisine. The occasion is the ceremonial unveiling of the European Heritage Label. The award is associated with the European cooperation project Cisterscapes -

  • Pforte Literarisch – The gateway to the arts

    Besucherzentrum der Stiftung Schulpforta Schulstraße 26, Naumburg OT Bad Kösen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

    This themed tour is filled with prose and poetry, with literary memories. The texts come from former pupils from the beginning of the school's history to the present day. Erdmann Neumeister, for example, was one of the most important cantata poets and theologians of the Baroque period. Well-known authors of the Enlightenment and the late

  • Guided tours Ebrach: In search of clues in the heart of the monastery landscape!

    Information Center Orangery Ebrach Lagerhausstrasse 5, Ebrach, Bavaria, Deutschland

    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

    Free – €9