Wienhausen: art & culture in a picturesque river landscape (60 km)
Special aspects of this tour:
Cloister Wienhausen
Cloister treasures in ancient walls
The Cistercian
Cloister Wienhausen established during the 13th century is today used
as a convent. The conventuals who live here offer guided tours through the
well-preserved, historic cloister buildings.
You will gain fascinating insights into convent life, the
impressive architecture, the richly decorated walls of the nuns’ choir and the
cloister’s valuable treasures.
The Holy
Sepulchre is one of them. It depicts a recumbent figure of Christ dating
from the 13th century in a house-like shrine from the 15th century. Its well-preserved
condition and the richly ornamental painting are astounding. The exhibit counts
among Lower Saxony’s most significant early Gothic creations.
Rare and valuable everyday items were discovered during the
installation of new electrical cables in 1952, among them rivet spectacles from
the 14th century as well as Christian and heathen cult objects.
In addition to these items, the cloister is also very well-known
for its valuable collection of Gothic tapestries.
The nuns’ choir and the summer refectory also serve as venues for
readings and concerts during the summer months.
Those wishing to immerse themselves in convent life are advised to
visit the evensong mass on a Friday (April to September).
Langlingen museum village
Farming comes to life
Langlingen
museum village invites you to look around an old granary dating from
1722.
You can discover many different everyday items from those days,
from a weaving loom to a petroleum barrel. Tools used by bakers, butchers,
carpenters, turners, smiths and barbers are on display in the entrance
hall.
There is also a well-preserved horse mill. The horses were used to
drive machines.
A completely furnished farmhouse and a herbal garden with around
150 edible and medicinal herbs as well as plants used as fragrances and dyes
round off the trip into the farmhouse of the past.
FlotArt
Village meets Art
Every two years, artists convene in Flotwedel under the motto
“Village meets Art” to hold the FlotART
festival of art in the village (the festival alternates with the Summer of
Culture in Flotwedel). Flotwedel has developed into an authentic artists’
colony in recent years and its fame is rapidly extending far beyond regional
boundaries thanks mainly to the FlotART Festival. Numerous facilities such as
the Findelhof and the Antikhof Drei Eichen or the Trödelscheune flea-market
play their part all year round.
During the FlotART festival, villagers open the doors to their
homes, farms and hideaways. Everyday buildings are transformed into art
venues.
The organisers extend an invitation to the whole family: “Come and
see how stalls become galleries, farmyards become sculpture parks and barns
become museums.”
The variety of artworks on display ranges from paintings to
photography and design to sculptures.
The support programme offers poetry slams, theatre and cinema
performances and live music in the form of baroque and gospel concerts and much
more.
Tour length: 60 km
Path conditions:
largely asphalted agricultural roads and cycle paths, some sections on
a public toad with little traffic, firm pathways
Signposting:
The pictogram shown here lines the entire route for the cycle tour
Starting point of the day tour:
car park at Klosterpark Wienhausen (sports field)
Am Klosterpark, 29342 Wienhausen
Coordinates: (N: 52.579792900, E: 10.183107424)
Further information:
Tourist Information Wienhausen
Mühlenstr. 5, 29342 Wienhausen, Tel. 05149 8899
Charakteristik
Tour length: 60 km
Path conditions:
largely asphalted agricultural roads and
cycle paths, some sections on a public toad with little traffic, firm pathways
Signposting:
The pictogram shown here lines the
entire route for the cycle tour
Starting point of the
day tour:
car park at Klosterpark Wienhausen
(sports field)
Am Klosterpark, 29342 Wienhausen
Coordinates: (N: 52.579792900, E:
10.183107424)
Further
information:
Tourist Information Wienhausen
Mühlenstr. 5, 29342 Wienhausen, Tel.
05149 8899
Tour description
The tour starts at Cloister Wienhausen:
a gem of North German redbrick Gothic architecture dating from the 13th century
that you can explore during a guided tour.
Other buildings of interest in the resort
include St. Marienkirche church with its lone-standing bell
tower and the watermill at Muehlenteich.
You will also see a small timber-framed
building on an island surrounded by the waters of the mill canal. Once a
granary, it is today used to celebrate weddings.
You will find the House of Culture (Kulturhaus)
and the tourist information office inside the old mill, an unadorned building
dating from 1591.
Your route takes you on the Aller cycle path –
you’ll use it at various stages of this tour – to Oppershausen.
Here, situated behind a horse-chestnut avenue, is the manor named Vorwerk Gut
Oppershausen, one of the oldest two-post farmhouses in the Celle district.
Today, the listed building houses a restaurant and is regularly used to hold
readings and concerts.
The tour continues alongside the Aller, past
the Mueden Canal and on through a forest.
In Neuhaus you will notice a Dutch
windmill from the year 1856 that lost its sails in 1956. It is located
on a former dune hill on the banks of the river Aller.
The museum village in Langlingen
shows in seven exhibition buildings what farming life was like in times gone
by.
Also worthy of a visit are St.-Johannis-Kirche church
and the historic manor Gutshof Mylius.
Just behind the lock at
Langlingen you will find a farmhouse restaurant and lido where you can
take a break or enjoy a trip in a paddle boat.
Old riverbank dunes just outside of
Fernhavekost bear witness to the former course of River Oker thatwas redirected
to Mueden in the Middle Ages to guarantee a high water level in the Aller.
In Bröckel you will find an
artists’s village: the Antikhof Drei Eichen is renowned for its restoration
work and impressive events. Long-forgotten items of everyday life shine resplendent
in new glory at the flea-market barn Trödel-Scheune.
You can join the tour that circumnavigates Wathlingen
(35 km) from Eicklingen via the L 311.
You will pass the old tithe house on your way through Eicklingen. The impressive manor house, formerly the administrative seat of the bailiff, was once a farmhouse to which extensions and conversions were added and is today in use as an office building.
Conventions and family celebrations are regular
events at the freshly renovated manor.
The Findelhof in Bockelskamp
offers cabaret performances all year round at the Kaleidoskop theatre.
Your route continues through lush meadows
to Allerniederung near Osterloh. Hilltop views, listening
stations and information boards are a great way to discover the diversified
meadow landscape.
Finally, you will leave Osterloh and cycle past
fields and meadows back to your starting point.
