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Daily meditation, yoga or mental training: many monasteries in Germany invite you to a short retreat. Away from the busy daily life, the soul can take a break.
Stop at a baroque monastery
Roggenburg Monastery, Bavaria
Roggenburg: Interior view of Roggenburg Monastery
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The Roggenburg monastery, southeast of Ulm in Bavaria, looks back on nearly 900 years of history. Even today, the Premontratesian canons fill the impressive baroque monastery with life and invite visitors to look behind the walls of the monastery. Day visitors are attracted by the monastery with its two 70-meter high towers, the museum with Baroque art treasures and the monastery garden with its ivy labyrinth. Anyone seeking spiritual encouragement is invited to a special “holiday.” Individual visitors or groups can pause undisturbed, forget about everyday life and think about other ways of life or questions of faith. There are many tours and excursions available around the Roggenburg Monastery. Besides the Roggenburg monastery, the Wannenkapelle and the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary are the most famous places. Visitors and guests are invited to stay overnight at the Roggenburg Monastery.
Benedictine opened their doors
Maria Laach Monastery, Rhineland-Palatinate
Glees: Benedictine Abbey Maria Laach
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Hospitality is very important in the Benedictine monastery of Maria Laach, as the founder of the order, Saint Benedict of Nursia, put in his rules. The Friars open their doors to all people who would like to give their souls time to return to their monastic solitude. Monastic guests stay in the guest wing of St. Gilbert and they dined there with other guests. The monks invite you to celebrate the liturgy, spiritual offerings and discussions about how to live your life. Guests can also recharge their batteries naturally. The medieval monastery is spectacularly situated on Lake Laach and nestled in the impressive Eifel volcanic landscape with dense forests, pristine valleys and volcanic craters. An attractive destination for anyone traveling on the St. James, which passes through the monastery of Maria Laach as the “Eifel Camino” or “Matthias Pilgrim’s Way”.
Fasting and meditation
The monastery of St. Marienthal, Saxony
Ostritz: Monastery of St. Marienthal
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St. Marienthal Abbey in Upper Lusatia, Saxony, founded in 1234, is the oldest active Cistercian monastery in Germany. The monks welcome those who wish to host monastery guests – for short flying visits as well as long monastic holidays. In addition to fasting according to Buchinger and alkaline fasting, they also offer courses in meditation, creativity, spirituality and chanting as well as participating in prayers or daily work. Anyone seeking support, advice or spiritual guidance will always find an open ear from the monks. St. Marienthal offers individual guests, couples, families and groups affordable accommodation for their stay in the monastery or for activities in Upper Lusatia. The monastery also stops the “Zittauer Jakobsweg” and the famous “Via Sacra”, the “Holy Way”, with special holy places and works of art on the border of the triangle of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.
St. Paul’s Road Station James
Neresheim Abbey, Baden-Württemberg
Neresheim: Aerial view of Neresheim abbey church
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The most important thing of the Neresheim Benedictine Abbey is the church with the flooded dome with the light paintings of the dome, which is considered one of the most important sacred buildings of the Baroque era. The living monastery, whose history dates back to the 11th century, also has a lot to offer believers, seekers of meaning and visitors interested in art. In addition to international concerts in the abbey church, a monastery bookstore and a museum about the history of the monastery, hospitality is prioritized in the spirit of Saint Benedict. Just as strangers used to seek a place to sleep in a monastery, today the conference center in Neresheim is open to all. If you want to relax and get new energy, this is the right place for you – with a beautiful view of the Swabian Alb. Workshops and training in techniques such as meditation, Qigong or Tai Chi offer a sound input. Anyone traveling the Franconian-Swabian Way of St. James will also find a monastery in Neresheim.
Meditation and travel
Archabbey of St. Martin in Beuron, Baden-Württemberg
Beuron: Benedictine Archabbey of St. Martin, Beuron Monastery
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All foreigners who come must be welcomed as Christ, as the Benedictines of Beuron Monastery say, true to Saint Benedict. The nuns give talks, meditation days and seminars and offer themselves as conversation partners to visitors to the monastery. Instead of silence and pause, the focus is mainly on questions of faith and lifestyle. Whether you take part in workshops, guided tours and liturgies of the monastic community: visitors have the freedom to choose and organize their independent accommodation. Everyone is invited to enter the guest house with its own chapel and meditation room. In addition to the monastic life, trips to the amazing Swabian Alb also attract visitors. Beuron Archabbey is located in the middle of the Upper Danube Nature Park in a valley surrounded by limestone cliffs. The hiking trail called “Valley of the Monks”, which leads close to the Danube river and which allows part of the “history of creation” to experience a wide variety of animals and plants, is popular with the guests of the house of the monks. The Archabbey is also in Beuron Way of St. James, also called “Via Beuronensis”.
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