Visiting an 800 year old church

Only an 11km ride from my front door stands the ruin of an 800 year old monastery. Zisterzienser Nonnenkloster was erected in the mid-13th century and now sits squat in the middle of small town Stadtroda. It’s odd looking at those red, weather worn stones knowing they’d been pulled from the earth and stacked toward the heavens nearly a millennium ago. And now, to the drone of midday German television, I feel the grass underfoot and look to the blue skies where a grand ceiling once reverberated the lilting songs and prayers of nuns and priests.Read more