Customised guided tours
Group size: max. 30 per tour guide
Duration: 1 or 1½ hours
Tour guide fee: 50€ (German language) or 65€ (other language) for 1 hour and 70€ (German language) or 85€ (other language) for 1½ hours. Bookings: fuehrungen@kloster-eberbach.de
Evening events attract a premium of 15€ from 19:00 (April–October) or 18:00 (November–March) in addition to the current entrance price.
Description
In the monastery tour, you will learn interesting facts about the history of the former Cistercian abbey, the lives of the monks and the history of wine cultivation in Eberbach.
Ariana Darrow
Tour Sales
Phone: +49 (0) 6723 9178-148
Mail: ariana.darrow@kloster-eberbach.de
Cassandra Fichtel
Tour Sales
Phone: +49 (0) 6723 9178-223
Mail: cassandra.fichtel@kloster-eberbach.de
Customised monastery tours with a thematic focus
Group size: max. 30 per tour guide
Duration: 1½ hours
Tour guide fee: 70.00€ (German language) or 85.00€ (other language). Bookings: fuehrungen@kloster-eberbach.de
Evening events attract a premium of 15€ from 19:00 (April–October) or 18:00 (November–March) in addition to the current entrance price.
The following themes for guided tours are available:
- The filming of "The Name of the Rose"
- The Cistercians and water
- Eberbach through the ages – the monastic and post-monastic times
- The Cistercians and their books
- Abbots, Aristocrats and Archbishops - Eberbach as burial ground
- All about the monastery
- The economic history of Kloster Eberbach
- Kloster Eberbach and its architectural history
- Kloster Eberbach and its museum
- Kloster Eberbach and its treasures
- Kloster Eberbach in the Middle Ages
Individual guided wine tours
In our wine tours you can experience the monastery with all of your senses. Our tours always begin with a walk through the monastery, in which you will gain insights into its colourful history and a first impression of its fascinating atmosphere. Let the almost 900-year-old abbey put you under its spell.
Group size: max. 30 per tour guide
Duration: 1½ hours
Tour guide fee: 70.00€ (German language) or 85.00€ (other language). Bookings: fuehrungen@kloster-eberbach.de
Evening events attract a premium of 15€ from 19:00 (April–October) or 18:00 (November–March).
- Eberbach Riesling tasting – 3 wines (min. 10 persons) 22.00€
- Burgundy wine tasting – 3 wines (min. 10 persons) 25.00€
- Hospital wine tasting – 5 wines (min. 10 persons) 27.00€
- Cistercian wine tasting – 5 wines (min. 10 persons) 29.00€
- Wine tasting tour – 6 wines (min. 15 persons) 32.00€
- Mulled wine guided tour - 2 wines (min. 10 persons) 23.00€
Our offer in detail
Wine tasting tours
Guided tour of the monastery with six stops, at each of which a great wine from the Kloster Eberbach vineyards will be tasted. During a wine tour you will get to know all about the former Cistercian abbey.
Eberbach Riesling tasting
Guided tour of the monastery ending with a tasting of three cabinet wines from the Kloster Eberbach Riesling production. The Eberbacher Riesling tasting will take place in the historic cabinet cellar.
Hospital wine tasting
The guided tour of the monastery ends in the former monastery hospital. There, where the grapes were last delivered, pressed and the barrels filled, you will taste five balanced white wines from the Kloster Eberbach wine production. The wine tasting in the historic hospital will inspire you.
Burgundy wine tasting
During the guided monastery tour, you will hear much about the religious ministry of the Cistercians. To finish, you will experience their legacy: you will taste four burgundy wines from the Kloster Eberbach production in the former fraternal house and cabinet cellar.
Cistercian wine tasting
After the guided tour of the monastery, which brought you closer to the nature and skills of the Cistercians, you will be able to taste five wines from the Kloster Eberbach winery.
Mulled wine tour
Enjoy – wrapped up warmly – the tour of the cloister and listen to stories about the Cistercian order and the history of Eberbach.
To keep the temperature bearable, try two Kloster Eberbach mulled wines during the exciting tour.
Individual wine tours in the Steinberg cellar
Group size: max. 30 per tour guide
Duration: 1½ hours
Tour guide fee: 55.00€ (German language) or 65.00€ (other languages).
Bookings: fuehrungen@kloster-eberbach.de
Description
Learn everything about our wine production, our philosophy and the development of our wine culture. During your visit, you can try three special wines and personally convince yourself of our demands for quality in our winemaking.
- Wine experience in the Steinberg cellar - 3 wines (min. 10 persons) – 13.00€
Customised guided tours for children
Group size: max. 15 children/young people per tour guide
Duration: 1 hour
Tour guide fee: 50.00€ (German language) or 65.00€ (other languages).
Bookings: fuehrungen@kloster-eberbach.de
In addition to the relevant entrance fee.
Description
A tour of the medieval Kloster Eberbach for children and young people.
On the track of the Cistercian monks and of life in a cloister. What is a monastery? How did people live there? What did the monks eat? Did they only work? Why did the monks pray so much? Were there heated rooms in the monastery?
Children following in the footsteps of the Eberbach monks – great fun for birthday parties too!
