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Rehna Monastery Garden

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Rehna Monastery Garden

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Rehna Monastery Garden

Name: Rehna Monastery Garden
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Location: Rehna, Northwest Mecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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1. View of Röggeliner See – Rehna Monastery Garden loop from Carlow

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2. Zeiss House – View of Rehna from Bülow loop from Rehna

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3. Monastery Town of Rehna – Rehna Monastery Garden loop from Rehna

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October 12, 2021

The monastery garden, with its variety of fragrant, medicinal, and herbal plants, is a crowd-puller. Guided tours can be arranged by appointment at the monastery and town information center. Free parking is available behind the monastery. The monastery café on the church square offers homemade cakes and is an ideal place to linger and enjoy. The integrated natural products store offers natural cosmetics.

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October 12, 2021

A monastery garden, unique in its form in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, was inaugurated at Rehna Monastery in August 2004. A variety of medicinal and aromatic herbs and flowers are available on an area of 300 m². Over 150 plants, some of them rare, such as elecampane and horehound, were cultivated.

This monastery garden at the former Premonstratensian monastery is intended, among other things, to commemorate the origins of garden culture in Germany.

The monastery garden was a kitchen garden, a place of meditation, peace, beauty, and symbolism. It was a "living pharmacy."
The nuns used their garden, for example, to extract elixirs for the treatment of internal and external ailments.

The centerpiece of the complex is the four-themed garden with medicinal plants, aromatic plants, and flower gardens, as well as a garden with biblical symbolic plants.
In 2013, the garden was enriched with an apiary. Pastor Ortlieb, an enthusiastic amateur beekeeper, shows guests, especially children, the importance of bees in the ecosystem.

The monastery garden is sheltered by the monastery church and is divided into four sections by cross-shaped paths. Its center is an apple tree, a symbol of biblical seduction.

The medicinal plant garden contains traditionally used medicinal herbs, as monasteries in earlier times were places where ancient knowledge of the healing properties of plants was preserved and developed. Elixirs for the treatment of illnesses were produced here.

The fragrance garden, with its fragrant scent, leads to roses, carnations, rosemary, and thyme. Both flowers and leaves exude a pleasant fragrance. The plants that grow here were used to perfume rooms and food, but also to dispel unpleasant odors, for fumigation, or for disinfection.

The flower garden contains plants that are ideal for cutting and may have previously served to decorate the monastery and the church.

Even today, beautiful bouquets from the garden adorn the rooms of the monastery.

Christian symbolic plants are displayed in the Bible Garden.

The rose, for example, was considered a symbol of purity, innocence, and beauty.

Along with the lily, it represents the Christian faith and the blood shed by Christ. The name of the lily and the milk thistle suggests symbolic connections.

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Rehna Monastery Garden

1. View of Röggeliner See – Rehna Monastery Garden loop from Carlow

2. Zeiss House – View of Rehna from Bülow loop from Rehna

3. Monastery Town of Rehna – Rehna Monastery Garden loop from Rehna

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