Monastery of Lorch on Saturday, August 10
Dear Members and Guests,
Please join us on Saturday, August 10, 2024, for a visit of the
Monastery of Lorch
– including a fascinating bird show at the Staufer Falconry and a guided tour of the monastery complex
The Benedictine monastery of Lorch was founded around 1102 by the Duke of Hohen-staufen, Frederick I. It is located in the beautiful Rems valley sitting on a ridge. You will enjoy a bird show at the Staufer falconry followed by lunch at the monastery. After lunch we will be picked up by our tour guides (1 Eng / 1 Ger). You will get to know the monastery with its medieval church, cloister, farm buildings and Marsilius tower, which offers you wonderful views of the monastery complex and the surrounding area.
Program and timetable:
10:30 – 11:00 Meet in front of the Staufer falconry (see below)
11:00 – 12:00 Bird show at the falconry
12:00 – 12:15 Walk from the falconry to the monastery
12:15 – 13:45 Catered lunch in a pagoda tent (see below)
13:45 – 14:00 Meet the tour guides and split up into 2 groups (1 Eng / 1 Ger)
14:00 – 15:00 Guided tours of the monastery complex – end of program
Please note: This is a partially open air site. So dress for the weather and wear comfortable walking shoes.
Cost: 44 € members, 54 € non-members. – This includes everything: the bird show, the tours, and – a catered lunch – at the site. Please state your choice of meal with your registration (see details below). We kindly ask for advance payment; instructions will be sent upon registration. The number of participants is limited, first come first served – members have priority.
Please register until Saturday, August 03, 2024, at the very latest with with:
Ralf Faustmann: e-mail r.faustmann@gac1948.de – or –
Ann Kathy Reed: e-mail a.reed@gac1948.de
Best regards,
Upcoming events
Saturday, 7 September Wine festival with wine coop “Steiler Zucker”
Saturday, 28 September Cannstatter Volksfest – Grandl’s Tent
Saturday, 19 October Stuttgart Evening Ghost Walk
Saturday, 9 or 16 Nov. tbd
Saturday, 7 December Christmas Dinner, Alte Kanzlei Restaurant Stuttgart
Please note: Events and dates subject to change ! If you would like more information on any of these events, or would like to sign up in advance, please talk to any board member. They will put you in contact with the person planning the event.
Directions:
Navigation address: Klosterstraße 2, 73547 Lorch
By car: From Stuttgart take B14 / B29 in the direction of Schorndorf and Schwäbisch Gmünd, once you pass Schorndorf, take exit Lorch-Ost (Kloster Lorch), follow L1154 through Lorch, at the first intersection turn right into Klosterstraße, drive up the hill until you get to Kloster Lorch, the parking area is on the right.
Public transportation: A MEX 13 train is listed as leaving Stuttgart Hbf on Sat, 10 Aug, at 09:20 from track 12, arriving Lorch at 09:56. Unfortunately, there is no bus listed that will reach the Monastery on time. It is about an 800-meter walk, half of that uphill, from the station to the Monastery. So, one can either pre-arrange a taxi at the Lorch station for the short ride up the hill or ask if someone driving to the event can pick them up / and give them a ride back down to the station afterwards. From Lorch there are trains leaving every 30 minutes to Stuttgart at one and thirty-one minutes past the hour.
Important Information about the lunch catering at the monastery:
There is no restaurant at the monastery complex, only a small café – the “Kloster Café” – which cannot host and service large groups at their place, so based on their advice, we are ordering our lunch meals through the catering business “Speisemeisterei Schwäbisch Gmünd”. The catering service will deliver the meal to the monastery and set it up as a buffet for us.
IMPORTANT: They also can’t collect money from us individually on the site. Therefore, we have included the price of the meal and beverage package in the total price for the event.
Please let us know your choice of regular or vegetarian Rigatoni when you sign up.
Baked Rigatoni (regular or vegetarian – meal must be preordered):
Rigatoni in homemade Bolognese cream sauce, with Italian ham and mushrooms, gratinated with cheese
or vegetarian option
Beverage package (enjoy your favorite beverage, as much as you want – no preorder)
Mineral water: still and medium
Local apple juice and apple juice spritzer (Apfelsaftshorle)
Heubacher beer and Pilsner
Radler
Württemberg wines: Riesling, Trollinger mit Lemberger, Rosé
Weinschorle