International Monastery Concerts
The beautifully restored ballroom of the former Benedictine abbey, with its excellent acoustics, provides the setting every year for the monastery concerts, renowned far beyond St. Blasien. From January to June and September to November, high-profile chamber concerts featuring prominent artists from all over Europe take place here. A musical treat in the region.
International Monastery Concerts St. Blasien
last concert of the 2025 concert series
Trio Toniton
International Cathedral Concerts
Experience sculptors live for a whole week
St. Blasier Sculpture Symposium
Sculpture Symposium
From 1 to 7 September 2025
A mainstay in the cultural calendar of the town of St. Blasien is the annual Sculpture Week, which always begins on the last Sunday in August. During this week, selected artists create a sculpture with a freely chosen theme from a tree trunk approximately 2 meters high. This naturally gives rise to a variety of interesting sculptures that are sure to delight a wide audience.
Come and marvel at how skillfully the artists create works of art of high artistic value in just seven days, which will then go under the hammer at an exciting auction on the Cathedral Square.
Museums
For art and culture lovers, these two museums are open to you...
District Museum
St. Blasien
Winterhalter Museum Menzenschwand
From monastery to health resort of the nobility
How was an abbey actually built in the past and what significance did it have?
The St. Blasien District Museum traces the development of the former monastery from the isolated "Celle Alba" to the most powerful Benedictine abbey in the Black Forest. It depicts the history of the cathedral construction, the dissolution of the monastery, and St. Blasien's rise to a health resort for the nobility and the upper middle class.
and important artist around 1900.
Visitors to the district museum can trace this exciting structural change in a relatively small space. This includes the emergence of sports tourism, the time when winter sports first arrived in St. Blasien. The museum proudly presents the first skis made in Germany, dating back to 1892. At the same time, visitors can take a varied tour through the natural and cultural history of the St. Blasien region and the Hotzenwald. The museum not only provides information about the landscape, environment, and geology, but also features works by the regionally and nationally important painters Hans Thoma, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, and
Hermann Fidel Winterhalter can be seen.
In addition, the St. Blasien District Museum offers changing special exhibitions on art, culture and photography several times a year.
St. Blasien District Museum | Guest House | Am Kurgarten 1-3
79837 St. Blasien | Tel. 49 (0)76 72 414-37 | Fax 49 (0)76 72 414-38
kultur@landkreis-waldshut.de | www.museum-st-blasien.de
www.landkreis-waldshut.de
Opening hours: Tue to Sun: 2.30 pm - 5 pm
Autumn break from 1 November to 25 December
The Prince Painters from Menzenschwand
Franz Xaver and Hermann Winterhalter were the most famous and popular painters of princes at all European courts at the time. They documented the European aristocracy in its entirety. Therefore, their work should be considered and preserved as a valuable pan-European cultural heritage.
Le Petit Salon, furnished in the late Biedermeier style, is unique in the German
and European museum landscape, as it is dedicated to these two painter brothers, who were associated with each other throughout their lives. The name "Le Petit Salon – Winterhalter in Menzenschwand" is intended to commemorate Franz Xaver Winterhalter's great artistic breakthrough in 1837, which he achieved at the Salon de Paris with the painting "Decamerone." Changing exhibitions of oil paintings,
Drawings, sketches, lithographs and letters, accompanied by expert guided tours with exciting stories about the two Menzenschwand artists who set out to paint the nobility, bring the personalities of these two painters, their work and their time to life.
Opening hours: Wed to Sun and on all public holidays from 2.30pm
The museum is closed from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from November to mid-December.
“Le Petit Salon” - Winterhalter in Menzenschwand
Old Town Hall Menzenschwand
Hinterdorfstraße 15 | 79837 St. Blasien-Menzenschwand
post@winterhalter-menzenschwand.de
www.winterhalter-menzenschwand.de
Tel: 49 (0)7675 / 92 96 988 or Mobile: 01 71 84 64 540