Our diverse offer

at a glance

You always wanted to know how people really cooked in the Middle Ages? How to build a longbow? What it has to do with this famous Hildegard von Bingen? Or would you like to learn the art of sword fighting? Here you will find our course offers for deeper insights into the knowledge and arts of the Middle Ages.

Medieval cooking course
Smoke, fire, darkness are the elements that characterize working life in the kitchens of the Middle Ages. Whether on the simple hearth of the peasant, on the waist-high brick hearth of the burgher's wife, or on the up to eight open stoves with smoke hoods that the lordly kitchen master must constantly monitor - the preparation of medieval dishes is a constant dance around the fire. It can hardly be regulated, consumes vast quantities of wood; and coal, which provides more even heat, is expensive.

Course management: Kedzior family
Tel.: +49(0) 6055 - 81 26 8
h.kedzior@freenet.de
Monastery cuisine according to Hildegard of Bingen
Experience cooking in the historic castle kitchen of Ronneburg Castle. Learn how food was processed in the Middle Ages. Cooking without electricity, baking bread in a wood-burning oven. Recipes according to Hildegard von Bingen with background information on the health cuisine of Hildegard medicine. A journey back in time to the 12th century.

Course leader: Isabella Groß-Dietzel
Tel.: +49(0) 157 - 51 91 30 09
E-mail: isa-gross@gmx.de
Sword fighting seminar
The teaching and research institute for martial arts and philosophy, founded by Mr. Volker Kunkel in the 70s of the last century, has been dealing with European fencing techniques, especially historical forms, for more than 30 years.Volker Kunkel has organized fencing seminars in this framework for about 25 years - especially at the Ronneburg - in which a total of more than 3000(!) participants have been taught so far, who can draw a similarly successful balance in the German-speaking world?

The focus of the seminars is the work with the weapons of the European Middle Ages and early modern times, especially the short sword and the long sword, which are unique in their development of weaponry as well as in the fighting technique and within 500 years of development surpassed everything that was developed in other cultural areas!

Since last year, the West Coast Institute is led by Annette de la Cruz and the philosophy and knowledge of this martial art is passed on to the next generation by Volker Kunkel's master students.

Course leader: David Braun
Tel.: +49(0) 6074-72 87 49 4
E-Mail: info@west-coast.de
Bow making seminar
Der Bogenbau ist eine Handwerksform, die sich in unserer Zeit bereits zu einer Kunstform entwickelt hat. In den Bogenbauseminaren werden den Teilnehmern das Grundwissen, das zum Bau eines Bogens benötig wird, vermittelt.

Die Teilnehmer der Bogenbauseminare kommen aus den verschiedensten Gründen und mit unterschiedlichsten Erwartungen zu den Seminaren. Manche haben bereits vorher Bogen gebaut und wollen ihre Kenntnisse vertiefen. Andere wollten schon immer mal einen Bogen bauen, oder haben vielleicht auch einen Gutschein für das Bogenbauseminar zum Geburtstag geschenkt bekommen.

Unter den Teilnehmern finden sich Frauen genauso wie Männer oder Paare im unterschiedlichsten Alter, jedoch achte ich auf ein Mindestalter von 16 Jahren, da es sich beim Bogen bauen tatsächlich um körperliche Arbeit handelt, die ein gewisses Maß an Kraft und Ausdauer erfordert.

Nicht jeder Teilnehmer hat einen handwerklichen Beruf erlernt oder kennt sich mit den Werkzeugen aus, die wir verwenden. Das sollte aber niemanden abschrecken es zu versuchen, denn jeder Teilnehmer geht am Ende des Seminars mit einem selbst gebauten Pfeil und einem selbst gebauten Bogen nach Hause.

Kursleitung: Nico Veggiato
https://www.bogenbau-ronneburg.de/
E-Mail: nicoveggiato@web.de
Leather processing
Today you can rarely look over the shoulder of shoemakers, bag makers and saddlers. In this workshop, you get very close to the ancient material leather and learn the basic techniques of leather processing under the guidance of Frank Rossel from Robb's leather workshop.

Course leader: Frank Rossel
Tel.: +49(0) 6051-14298
E-mail: robbslederwerkstatt@web.de