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Liesborn Abbey in Wadersloh
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Liesborn Abbey Museum

Liesborn Abbey

In the heart of the village of Liesborn in the municipality of Wadersloh, nestled against the mighty Romanesque tower of the parish church of Ss. Cosmas and Damian, lies the time-honoured Liesborn Abbey. Probably founded around 815 as a convent for ladies, it once developed into one of the most important monasteries in the diocese of Münster.

From a convent to a Benedictine abbey

In 1131, the women's convent was dissolved and transferred to the monks of the Benedictine Order. In the 15th century, under Abbot Heinrich von Kleve, the monastery experienced an artistic and spiritual heyday with the Liesborn School of Painting, which produced works of art of international renown. The "Baroque Blossom" began with Abbot Gregor Waldmann: The impressive representative building dates from this time. In the course of secularisation, the abbey was dissolved in 1803. In the following decades, the art treasures were scattered to the four winds and many parts of the building were demolished: Of the once stately monastery ensemble with enclosure and farmyard as well as numerous fruit, herb and flower gardens, only the church, the three-winged abbot's and representative building built in the Baroque period and the coach house remain today.

Liesborn Abbey Museum

Since 1966, the former monastery has been home to a more wonderful place for culture and encounters: the still quite young, lively Museum Abtei Liesborn. With its impressive collection of art and cultural history, it is one of the most important museums in Westphalia. Throughout the year, exhibitions, concerts, lectures, museum festivals, markets, guided tours and educational programmes take place here.

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Liesborn's "Wild Men Liesborn's "Wild Men
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Wild men in the former monastery

Did you know that Liesborn Abbey Museum has probably the most unusual alarm system in the whole of Münsterland? When you enter the south wing of the baroque residence, you come to the abbot's former chambers. The builder in the Baroque heyday was called Abbot Gregor Waltmann - the "Wild Man" can be found on his family coat of arms as an allusion to his name. To protect his private chambers from unauthorised intruders, he placed wooden guards on the stairs. Where the first wild man still looks almost friendly, the second already raises his cudgel threateningly. A visit to the eerily beautiful carving is an absolute must!

Map | Liesborn Abbey Museum

Service & Offer

  • Child-friendly
  • Guided tours
  • 100 Castles Route
  • Museum in the house
  • Park by the house
  • barrier-free - not barrier-free at the moment due to a construction site
  • Workshops

Liesborn Abbey

Öffnungszeiten vom 01.01. to 31.12.
  • Monday
    closed
  • Tuesday
    10:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr
  • Wednesday
    10:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr
  • Thursday
    10:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr
  • Friday
    10:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr
  • Saturday
    10:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr
  • Sunday
    10:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr

Die Räumlichkeiten des Museums Abtei Liesborn sind nur während der Öffnungszeiten betretbar. 

Aufgrund von Bauarbeiten ist das Museum bis Mitte 2023 nicht barrierefrei.

Liesborn Abbey

Öffnungszeiten vom 01.01. to 31.12.
  • Monday
    ganztägig
  • Tuesday
    ganztägig
  • Wednesday
    ganztägig
  • Thursday
    ganztägig
  • Friday
    ganztägig
  • Saturday
    ganztägig
  • Sunday
    ganztägig

Admission prices

  • Free admission:
    0,00 €

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May
07
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ART FOR FOUR
07.05.2023, 15:00 20.08.2023, 19:00
Four Seasons Park, Oelde
Exhibition
Art

With the support of the Cultural Foundation of the Sparkasse Münsterland Ost, 13 artists from the Kreiskunstverein Beckum-Warendorf e.V. are exhibiting their works in the Four Seasons Park. Embedded in the wonderful park landscape, there will be installations and sculptures to discover, which anyone interested can visit individually or have explained in art tours.

Art tours:

Sunday 07 May 2023 3 p.m. Opening/introduction with art historian Dr. Annette Georgi

Sunday 11 June 2023 4 p.m. Tour with art historian Dr. Martin Gesing

Tuesday 20 June 2023 3 pm Tour with artist Melanie Becker-Hoffmann

Thursday 29 June 2023 3 pm Tour with artist Elke Seppmann

Saturday 01 July 2023 3 pm Tour with artist Martina Lückener

Sunday 20 August 2023 11 am Tour with artist Melanie Becker-Hoffmann

Registration required at: forum@oelde.de

Private group tours possible at: kunstverein.beckum-warendorf@t-online.de

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07.05.2023, 15:00 20.08.2023, 19:00
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May
20
Sat
STADTRADELN
20.05.2023, 00:15 10.06.2023, 23:45
Wadersloh, Wadersloh
Sport

STADTRADELN is a competition in which the aim is to cycle as many everyday journeys as possible in a climate-friendly way for 21 days. It doesn't matter if you already cycle every day or if you rarely cycle. Every kilometre counts - especially if you would otherwise have travelled it by car.

Time
20.05.2023, 00:15 10.06.2023, 23:45
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Jun
03
Sat
Day of Gardens and Parks
03.06.2023), ca.11:00 04.06.2023, ca.18:00
Spa Park Bad Waldliesborn, Bad Waldliesborn
Organiser: Bad Waldliesborn
guided tour

Day of Gardens and Parks: hands-on and entertainment programme on the topic of bee pastures and insect protection

Time
03.06.2023), ca.11:00 04.06.2023, ca.18:00
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Jun
03
Sat
Public Baroque Garden Tour A walk at Hovestadt Castle
03.06.2023, 14:00 03.06.2023, ca.15:00
Baroque Garden Hovestadt Castle, Lippetal
Organiser: Gemeinde Lippetal
guided tour

This guided tour is an entertaining walk through the baroque garden of Hovestadt Castle, which was restored in 1994-1997. The baroque structure includes visual axes, symmetry and cell-like enclosure. All these things are explained.

Time
03.06.2023, 14:00 03.06.2023, ca.15:00
Location
Opening hours
Öffnungszeiten vom 01.05. to 30.09.
  • Monday
    09:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr
  • Tuesday
    09:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr
  • Wednesday
    09:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr
  • Thursday
    09:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr
  • Friday
    09:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr
  • Saturday
    09:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr
  • Sunday
    09:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr

Sommeröffnungszeiten

Öffnungszeiten vom 01.10. to 30.04.
  • Monday
    10:00 Uhr bis 16:00 Uhr
  • Tuesday
    10:00 Uhr bis 16:00 Uhr
  • Wednesday
    10:00 Uhr bis 16:00 Uhr
  • Thursday
    10:00 Uhr bis 16:00 Uhr
  • Friday
    10:00 Uhr bis 16:00 Uhr
  • Saturday
    10:00 Uhr bis 16:00 Uhr
  • Sunday
    10:00 Uhr bis 16:00 Uhr

Winteröffnungszeiten

Prices
Führung Einzelperson (1 Stunde)
  • normal: 3
Gruppenführung (max. 25 Personen)

Gerne kann auch ein anschließendes Mittagessen bzw. Kaffeetrinken organisiert werden.

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Jun
03
Sat
NABU nature tour Where insects feel at home
03.06.2023, 15:00 03.06.2023, ca.17:00
Four Seasons Park, Oelde
Lecture

The Oelde Fruit and Horticulture Association invites you to a nature tour on Saturday, 03.06.2023, with the topic: "Where insects feel at home". A presentation of plants and insects by speaker Dr. Berit Philipp.

Location: Familiengerten in den Wellen

Time
03.06.2023, 15:00 03.06.2023, ca.17:00
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Jun
03
Sat
Liv Migdal and Schaghajegh Nosrati - 52nd Chamber Music Festival RAUSCH - baroque and romantic
03.06.2023, 19:00 03.06.2023, ca.20:45
Liesborn Abbey, Wadersloh
Stage
Festival
concert
Music
Melbourne, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Berlin, Oslo, Shanghai: as a soloist with renowned orchestras and conductors, the award-winning musician has toured the world on concert stages all over the world. "One of the most captivating violinists of our time, who creates timbres on her instrument that captivate the audience! that captivate the audience!" ... "electrifying" ... "with expressive power" ... "existential". expressive power" ... "existential playing" ... "from the ear directly into the soul" ... "a full-blooded a thoroughbred musician " ...
2016 she gave her debut in the Berliner Philharmonie, the following year at the Elbphilharmonie. In addition to invitations renowned festivals such as the Schumann-Fest Bonn, Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival, Mozartiana Gdansk, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele and a number of other music festivals in Europe and Asia. Asia, the concert calendar in recent years has included tours to Australia, France, Denmark and Great Britain, France, Denmark and Great Britain have been on the violinist's concert calendar.
All of Migdal's recordings to date have received excellent reviews and numerous international Migdal's CD recordings with works from the baroque to the works from the baroque to the present, including the recordings with the pianist pianist Marian Migdal as a duo partner and the recordings nominated for the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) nominated The Eight Seasons by Vivaldi and Piazzolla with the German Chamber Orchestra Berlin.
Liv Migdal began her violin studies as an eleven-year-old junior student with Christiane Christiane Hutcap at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Rostock, which she with the diploma examination. She continued her artistic training in the Igor Ozim's master class at the Salzburg Mozarteum, which was followed by a postgraduate postgraduate studies in early music with Reinhard Goebel. After Liv Migdal was awarded the Paul Roczek Music Award in Austria. the Paul Roczek Music Award for outstanding violin playing. Since Liv Migdal has received a series of international music prizes and international music prizes and scholarships, including the First Prize International Ruggiero Ricci Violin Competition Salzburg, International Hindemith Competition Berlin, GWK Music Prize Münster, Fritz Kreisler Competition Vienna, Mozart Society. In 2017 the violinist initiated the project "Giving a voice to ostracised composers". Give a Voice to Ostracised Composers" project. After the premiere of a work for violin dedicated to Liv Migdal for violin and orchestra and an artist-in-residence season, she artist-in-residence season, 2019 saw the release of the violinist's fourth CD album. with solo sonatas by Bach, Ben-Haim and Bartók, which was highly praised by international critics and was nominated for the OPUS KLASSIK 2020 in three categories. OPUS KLASSIK 2020 in three categories.
At the violin recital in Liesborn she will perform together with Shaghajegh Nosrati on the piano. The programme entitled "Intoxication - Baroque and Romantic" includes the Sonata for violin and piano in violin and piano in C minor BWV 1017 by Johann Sebastian Bach, the Suite d'après des thèmes, fragments et morceaux de Giovanni Battista Pergolesi by Igor Stravinsky, Six Pieces for Violin and Piano by and Robert Schumann's Sonata No. 1 in A minor for violin and piano, op.105. piano, op.105.
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03.06.2023, 19:00 03.06.2023, ca.20:45
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Jun
04
So
Musical Journey through Europe - Interreligious Dialogues
04.06.2023, 18:00 04.06.2023, ca.19:00
Parish Church of St. Margaret, Wadersloh
concert

Semjon Kalinowski - viola (Lübeck)
Guy Poupart - organ (Sandefjord, Norway)
Church choir at St. Margareta Wadersloh

with psalm settings by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Time
04.06.2023, 18:00 04.06.2023, ca.19:00
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Opening hours
  • Monday
    ganztägig
  • Tuesday
    ganztägig
  • Wednesday
    ganztägig
  • Thursday
    ganztägig
  • Friday
    ganztägig
  • Saturday
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  • Sunday
    ganztägig
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Jun
05
Mo
Clothing store
05.06.2023, 14:00 05.06.2023, 16:00
Clothing store, Wadersloh
Dialogues

The Wadersloh clothing store offers second-hand fashion for men, women and children. Shoes, jewellery and also books and games are offered. The donated items are checked and sorted and are then available to everyone.

Time
05.06.2023, 14:00 05.06.2023, 16:00
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Opening hours
Opening hours
  • Monday
    14:00 Uhr bis 16:00 Uhr
  • Tuesday
    closed
  • Wednesday
    closed
  • Thursday
    closed
  • Friday
    10:00 Uhr bis 12:00 Uhr
  • Saturday
    closed
  • Sunday
    closed

In den Räumlichkeiten der Firma Gloria Diestedder Str. 39, Wadersloh

Prices
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Jun
06
Tue
Blood donation in Wadersloh
06.06.2023, 16:30 06.06.2023, 20:00
Secondary school Wadersloh, Wadersloh
Dialogues

The DRK Wadersloh offers blood donations several times a year in all three districts. in all three districts. Find out more about donating blood and dates in your area.

Time
06.06.2023, 16:30 06.06.2023, 20:00
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Jun
07
Mi
Educational trip to Alsace - Kulturring Liesborn Alsace and the Vosges await us!
07.06.2023), ca.08:15 11.06.2023, ca.08:30
Liesborn, Wadersloh-Liesborn
guided tour

The educational trip of several days in the anniversary year of the Kulturring Liesborn will take the participants between Zabern (French Saverne) and Mulhouse to places of interest in the natural and cultural region. Mr. Delf Slotta from Saarbrücken has planned the itinerary of this trip and will guide the participants through the region of Alsace and the Vosges Mountains. There will be two overnight stops, so that the journey can be optimally organised for the individual activities. Mr Slotta will begin his tour in Zabern (Saverne). The first overnight stop will be in Obernai or Molsheim. The second overnight stop will be in the vicinity of Colmar. In Colmar, the famous Isenheim Altarpiece in the Unterlinden Museum attracts particular attention. Neuf-Brisach, which was built by the famous fortress architect Vauban on the orders of Louis XIV as a border fortification opposite the imperial fortress of Breisach on the right bank of the Rhine, is also on the sightseeing programme. The trip will also include Kaisersberg, the birthplace of Albert Schweitzer, Riquewihr, Tannenkirch and on to Mulhouse. Two trips to the Vosges and a wine tasting on the last evening round off the programme.

Time
07.06.2023), ca.08:15 11.06.2023, ca.08:30
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Your tips for Liesborn Abbey

  • The castles of Assen and Hovestadt are two other beautiful historical buildings nearby.
  • The 100 Castles Route and the Roman-Lippe Route offer great opportunities for cyclists.
  • The beautiful and historically interesting city centre of Lippstadt is only about 8 kilometres away.
  • The "Holy Trails" day bike tour takes you to numerous sights in the surrounding area.
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