Kloster Kirchberg am Wechsel
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Parish church with monastery©
Your stay
The Dominican convent in Kirchberg am Wechsel is the place to go if you are looking for silence and want to strengthen your faith. Here, for example, you can spend a "Day of Silence" with the nuns and pray, work and eat with them. From May to October, guests can devote themselves entirely to solitude during a "hermitage in the tower". Digital detoxing is included here, as great importance is attached to contemplation and spirituality. The monastery also offers regular seminars on the topics of theology, spirituality and meditation - for groups of up to 20 people.
The monastery in Kirchberg is particularly suitable for a stopover on a pilgrimage. A 10-hour pilgrimage stage along the Marienweg leads from Kirchschlag to Kirchberg.
Another stage from Kirchberg am Wechsel to Payerbach an der Rax (approx. 6.5 hours walking time).
The monastery in Kirchberg has 16 simple rooms for a total of 20 people. Guests are catered for directly by the monastery kitchen - including home-baked bread, fruit and vegetables from the monastery garden and food from local farmers. Special dietary requirements can be catered for.
Lenten cloth in the monastery
A 100m long Lenten cloth in the Kirchberg monastery invites you to pause and reflect. 40 biblical scenes, linked to themes that have not only moved the Christian world for 2000 years, were applied and painted in four years by the artists Sepp Jahn and Edith Hirsch in 2000. It is also listed in the Guinness Book of Records 2001 as the largest Lenten cloth in the world.
Viewings are available again from February 25 to April 2, 2023, on Saturdays and Sundays from 2:00 to 5:00 pm.
