Eldenaer Klostermarkt

About the Market

The Eldenaer Klostermarkt takes place every year at the end of June in the famous Eldena monastery ruins. The brick Gothic architecture of the former 12th-century Cistercian abbey — captured by Caspar David Friedrich in around twenty paintings and thus becoming a symbol of German Romanticism — forms an extraordinary backdrop for market stalls, crafts, and cultural events.

Concept

Over 80 stalls and stations are spread across the monastery barn and park. Regional craftspeople are represented: pottery, wood, leather, blacksmithing, felt, jewelry, natural cosmetics, bookbinding. Alongside medieval market elements with reenactment groups, medieval music, mock combat, and camp life. For families: children's theatre, hands-on stations, craft demonstrations for young and old.

Catering

Regional culinary delights with a focus on traditional dishes — stick bread, mead, stews, regional farm products, honey. Several stalls are designed as medieval taverns.

Local Context

The Eldena monastery ruins belong to the European Route of Brick Gothic and connect Greifswald with the medieval Baltic region. It is one of the most famous sights in Vorpommern and is located on the southern bank of the Ryck, not far from its mouth into the Greifswalder Bodden.