Monastery - Bergkloster Bestwig

You are welcome as our guest at any time. You can organise your stay as you wish. From here you can go hiking or cycling, follow in the footsteps of history or discover nature. And you will always return to the spiritual atmosphere of the monastery.

It is a pleasure for us to create a space for you to rest, reflect and develop your strength. You can use our light-flooded monastery church, the crypt, the meditation room and the monastery park to pause and experience unity with yourself and nature. The entire environment is designed using the art of Ikebana and can be a place of harmony, strength and inspiration.

The Bergkloster Bestwig is the seat of the provincialate of the European Province of the Sisters of St Mary Magdalene Postel. It was established between 1965 and 1971 as a motherhouse and has been the place of residence for many sisters ever since. It is also a place where sisters spend their twilight years.

You are cordially invited to take part in the sisters' prayer times. If you wish, a sister will take time for a chat or prayer or for silence together. In this way, holidays and quiet days can become a spiritual time.

Church services in the Bergkloster Bestwig
Lauds	Mon - Fri 6.45 am Sun 7.00 am
Midday prayer	daily at 12.00 noon
Vesper	daily at 6.00 pm, Tue and Thu with Eucharistic celebration, Wed with distribution of communion
Eucharistic celebrations	Mon and Fri 9.30 am Tue and Thu 6.00 pm (with Vespers) Sun 9.00 am

The Bestwig mountain monastery and the Benedictine Königsmünster Abbey are a good 15 kilometres apart on foot. This is exactly the right distance for a day's stage.

The two religious communities therefore decided to create a route from one monastery to the other. This resulted in two routes, the north route and the south route. Or the way there and the way back.

Here you can start your journey: Pilgrimage »

The Bergkloster guest house offers cosy comfort in 11 flats, 4 of which are double rooms and 7 of which are single rooms. All rooms are equipped with shower & WC, telephone, TV and WLan.

The Haus der Begegnung am Bergkloster Bestwig has 32 single rooms, 15 of which can also be used as double rooms on request. For larger groups, there are four multi-bed rooms with a total of 24 beds on the upper floor of the house. The rooms are kept simple, but offer every comfort such as a private bathroom, telephone and WLAN.

Bed linen and towels are provided in all rooms. It is also possible to dry your own laundry.